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U.S. v. RIVAS

No. 13-3526.

831 F.3d 931 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joel RIVAS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 5, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erika L. Csicsila , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Beau B. Brindley , Attorney, Law Offices Of Beau B. Brindley, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

A fingerprint examiner testified at trial that he was certain the partial fingerprint found on a 9 millimeter handgun belonged to Joel Rivas. Rivas wanted to cast doubt on the reliability of the method the examiner used by questioning him about an unrelated case in which the FBI used the same method to erroneously conclude...

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