Procedure in identifying fingernail imprint in human skin survives appellate review.
A case of first impression involving the identification of the person whose fingernail left an imprint on the neck of a child murder victim has survived appeal to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. The appeals court, in an opinion which includes a number of incongruous features, approved the trial court's admission of scientific testimony matching an accused's fingernail to the impression left in the child's neck, apparently during his being manually strangled.
D000402:Airway Obstruction; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006225:Hand; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009262:Nails