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COMMONWEALTH v. PATTERSON

445 Mass. 626 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH v. TERRY L. PATTERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 27, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Cunha, Jr. (Helen Holcomb & Charles Allan Hope with him) for the defendant.

Donna Jalbert Patalano, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Robert C. Cosgrove, Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Berkshire District & others.

David M. Siegel, Stanley Z. Fisher, & Daniel Givelber for New England Innocence Project & others.

Lisa J. Steele for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & others.

LaDonna J. Hatton & Christopher Pohl, Special Assistant Attorneys General, for Secretary of Public Safety.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.

CORDY, J.

In 1995, Terry L. Patterson was convicted of the murder of a Boston police detective.1 His conviction was based in large part on the expert testimony of a member of the Boston police latent fingerprint section, who used the most common method of latent fingerprint identification, ACE-V,2 to determine that four latent impressions found on the victim's vehicle...

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