Cross Examination of Fingerprint Expert and the Confrontation Clause: Tips and Tricks
US v. Joel Rivas, No. 13-3526. A fingerprint examiner (“Rottman”) testified at trial that he was certain the partial fingerprint found on a 9 millimeter handgun belonged to Joel Rivas. Rivas’s only argument is that his rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment were violated when the district court did not...