7 September 2001 – Lord Advocate Refuses
to Prosecute Experts
1 February 2002 – Shirley Sues Strathclyde Police
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.
cfm?id=120562002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1820341.stm
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinionsv/a3254.html
25 March 2002 – Scotsman: ‘Fingerprints of Despair’.
22 April 2002 - Petition to Parliament
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2269165.stm
http://www.clpex.com/Articles/TheDetail/TheDetail37.htm
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S1/official_
report/cttee/petit-02/pu02-1802.htm#Col2532
3 May 2002 – Statement by 150 Fingerprint Experts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1965198.stm
15 May 2002 – David Steele Rules out Parliamentary
Debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/1988125.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/1989717.stm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=619462002
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=567362002
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=529172002
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=647&id=565002002
19 May 2002 – BBC Panorama: ‘Fingerprints on
Trial’ – Transcript
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/
1983567.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/programmes/panorama/
1997258.stm
15 August 2002 – The Scotsman: David Asbury
Conviction Quashed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7509060.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/891255.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=891692002&rware=
JVYDJSFERGLV&CQ_CU
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=891702002
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/page.cfm?objectid
=12117717&method=full&siteid=89488
18 September 2002 – The Scotsman: ‘Minister for
Justice Under Fire.’
http://www.scottishelections.co.uk/topics.cfm?tid=
783&id=1037412002
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=
1038762002
22 November 2002 – Alan McNamara
http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/alanmcnamara/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2205055.stm
28 February 2003 – Court of Session – Shirley
V Strathclyde Police
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinionsv/a3254.html
24 June 2003 – The Scotsman: Colin Espie Report
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=689152003
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/scotland/3012294.stm
17 August 2003 – Scotland on Sunday: ‘Police
Outrage over DNA’
5 October 2003 – Sunday Herald: More
SCRO mistakes….
http://ww1.sundayherald.com/print37266
10 October 2003 – The Scotsman:
‘Shirley Sues….’
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.
cfm?id=1119832003
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/scotland/3177712.stm
21 February 2005 - The Globe and Mail Canada -
Flawed Biometrics
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050221.
Scottish Parliament: MSP’s Questions
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S1/agenda_
and_decisions/bb-00/bb-03-09e.htm
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S1/official_
report/wa-00/wa0322.htm
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/
wa-03/wa1126.htm
General Articles Referring to the
Shirley McKie Case
http://www.clpex.com/McKie.htm
http://www2.newsquest.co.uk/local_london/features
/ed05050901.html
http://onin.com/fp/second_case (shows contested prints)
http://www.lawandeverythingelse.com/id38.htm
http://www.sundayherald.com/print42355
http://www.sundayherald.com/42313
http://www.clpex.com/Articles/Newz/2003/2003-07-05.htm
http://www.lawandeverythingelse.com/id38.htm
http://www.hendontimes.co.uk/archive/display.var.
37505.0.forensic_fingerpointing.php
http://www.scafo.org/The_Print/THE_PRINT_VOL_
18_ISSUE_03.pdf
http://www2b.abc.net.au/4corners/20020923/posts/topic31.shtm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story
/0%2C3605%2C1214948%2C00.html
http://www.telling-tales.fsnet.co.uk/selection.htm
http://familyops.us/columns/whiston/rape_the_dna
_doppleganger_dilemma5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2003-November/029567.html
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/sci/seminar2.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_3.htm
http://lunda.rucus.net/~lunda/blog/archives/112_
Fingerprints_News_Week_7__11_June_2004.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/60/308117/2003-05-29/2003-06-04/0
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/f/fingerprint.htm
http://www.isrcl.org/Papers/Broeders.pdf
http://secondsightresearch.tripod.com/zine/id67.html
http://lunda.rucus.net/~lunda/blog/categories/2_
Forensic_Skills_and_Expert_Evidence
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1194&a=66204
&previousRenderType=6
http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/
wikipedia/f/fi/fingerprint.html
Fingerprints – General Articles/programmes
on Fingerprinting
http://onin.com/fp/stmt_ref_articles.html
http://www.scafo.org/The_Print/The_PRINT_VOL_
19_ISSUE_03.pdf
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/criminal/Mellen_
Legal%20Perceptions.pdf
http://www.fd.org/Publications/SpecTop/
fingerprintlawreview.pdf
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=67615
http://www.moretothepoint.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=tp&air_date=5/25/04&tmplt
_type=Show
http://www.theconnection.org/shows
/2004/06/20040610_b_main.asp
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2972973
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,
4922033-110247,00.html
http://www.isrcl.org/Papers/Broeders.pdf
http://www.corpus-delicti.com/forensic_mis.html
http://www.humanfactorsconsultants.com/fingerprint.rtf
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_science_myth.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_4.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fingerprints_2.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_5.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_myth_of_fingerprints.htm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID292087_
code011130590.pdf?abstractid=292087
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fingerprints_thumbs_down.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fingerprints_lie.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_judge_slams_fp.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fingerprints_1.htm
http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/pollak2002.html
http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/ID00004_2.html
http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/FPvalidi.html
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wc_2.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wc_1.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wc_3.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wa_1.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wa_2.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wa_4.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_fp_wa_5.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_gen_art_7.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_gen_art_14.htm
http://www.law-forensic.com/cfr_dna_wc_1.htm
http://www.goextranet.com/Seminars/Examples/
DistCtFingerprint.html
http://www.segured.com/index.php?od=9&link=3951
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=
modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1066
http://www.science-online-center.com/science_in_society/forensic_science/fingerprints/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=FINGERPRINTS
http://www.corpus-delicti.com/forensic_mis.html
http://www.scilawforensics.com/presentations/FPtalk.pdf
http://www.scafo.org/library/120101.html
http://www.sundayherald.com/42355
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/23/
lack_of_training_cited_in_report_on_flawed_fingerprint_unit?mode=PF
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/
LAC/20050217/MCLEAN17/TPNational/Toronto
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/09/06/mass
_high_court_to_hear_challenge_to_fingerprint_evidence/
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