1.   The fire was put out before it could take hold and before vital fingerprint evidence left by Gore, was destroyed.

2.   A former dean of the Yale and University of Pennsylvania law schools, Pollak did not preclude the use of all fingerprint evidence.

3.   Defense lawyers who have brought challenges said they have in some cases secured favorable plea deals or prompted prosecutors to withdraw fingerprint evidence.

4.   Former troopers who worked in the unit during that period have admitted faking fingerprint evidence in at least six cases.

5.   Neither of the cases in which Pilus was accused of faking fingerprint evidence made it to trial.

6.   She complained to Jupiter police, who gave her plastic gloves so she could preserve fingerprint evidence on the mail she received.

7.   She served two years in prison before the authorities learned that the fingerprint evidence that led to her conviction was faked by two investigators from Troop C.

8.   And the author of a book out next month speculates that fingerprint evidence could be eclipsed by DNA identification within a few decades.

9.   Bayle, however, said he did not question the validity of fingerprint evidence itself, although he was critical of the tests.

10.   Fingerprint evidence is based on the idea that no two people have the same fingerprint.