Article Written by Assistant Professor of Law Richard Gutierrez is Published in the University of California Law Journal
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UIC Law Professor Richard Gutierrez published an article titled “Bowling with Bumper Rails: How Firearms Examiners Have Duped the Courts and Generated Low Error Rates Only by Avoiding Challenging Comparisons” that was published in University of California Law Journal. Read an excerpt below:
“Across its more than century-long history, the field of firearms examination—a subspecies of forensic methodologies concerned with determining the gun that fired bullets or cartridge cases associated with a criminal offense—has featured prominently in the aftermath of some of the United States’ most infamous shootings. Practitioners have provided testimony in relation to, or otherwise “aided” with the investigation of, Sacco and Vanzetti, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Jr. But more recent years have seen cracks propagate wildly across the fragile veneer of science that allowed the field to infect our criminal legal system and insulate itself from meaningful scrutiny.”