Ralph Norman Haber, Ph.D., and Lyn Haber, Ph.D. Forensic Scientific Research Publications and Presentations Revised, September, 2012

2012

Chemerinsky, E., & Haber, R.N., Haber,  and 37 further amici (2012).  A petition for review of an order of the board of immigration appeals: Nelson Acosta-Roque v. Eric Holder. United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth District (A#070523-551).  Brief of scientists and scholars of fingerprint identification as Amici Curiae in support of petitioner and in favor of reversal.    

Costain, J., (2012) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

Costain, J., (2012) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

 

2011

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Challenges to fingerprints. Presentation to the Thrills and Skills XVII Conference, Spokane, WA, Nov 4, 2011, Sponsored by the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Eyewitness Memory, Testimony and Identification.  Presentation to the Thrills and Skills XVFII Conference, Spokane, WA, Nov. 4, 2011, Sponsored by the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho.

Costain, J., (2011) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

Costain, J., & Haber, L. (2011).  Fingerprints.  In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases.  Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

2010

Costain, J., (2010) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

Costain, J., & Haber, L. (2010).  Fingerprints.  In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases.  Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

2009

 

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Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. (2009).  Challenges to Fingerprints: A Guidebook for Prosecution and Defense and Examiners.  Tucson, AZ: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Testimony for the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the National Institute for Forensic Science, Sept 9, 2009.  Congressional Record.  Also reprinted in The Detail, Sept 28, 2009.

Costain, J., (2009) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

Costain, J., & Haber, L. (2009).  Fingerprints.  In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases.  Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Fingerprint evidence. Presented at Identification Forensics: Fingerprints and DNA. Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Chicago, IL., January, 2009.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Fingerprint science.  Presented at Identification Forensics: Fingerprints and DNA.  Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Chicago, Il., January, 2009.

Haber, L. The accuracy of fingerprint comparisons. Presented at the Search of Reasonable Doubt: DNA, Computers, Fingerprints, and other Sciences. Missouri Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, Kansas City, MO, January, 2009.

Haber, R.N. Memory and other Eyewitness Issues.  Presented at the Search of Reasonable Doubt: DNA, Computers, Fingerprints, and other Sciences.  Missouri Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, Kansas City, MO, January, 2009.

2008

Costain, J., (2008) Firearms and Tool Marks (Edited by Haber, R.N.). In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases. Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California. 

Costain, J., & Haber, L. (2008).  Fingerprints.  In: Scientific Evidence in California Criminal Cases.  Continuing Education of the Bar, State Bar of California: Berkeley: University of California.

2007

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. (2007). Scientific validation of fingerprint evidence under Daubert. Law, Probability and Risk, doi 10: 1093/lpr/mgm020.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. (2007). Experiential or scientific expertise.  Law, Probability and Risk, doi: 10,1093/lpr/mgm024. 

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. (2007).  Eyewitnesses to Accidents: The Factors that Determine Accuracy.  In R. E. Dewar and P. L. Olson (Eds.), Human Factors in Traffic Safety, Second Edition. (Chapter 23, pp. 495-514).  Tucson, AZ: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co.

Haber, L. & Haber, R. N. Forensic Science Issues on Accreditation of Crime Laboratories and Certification of Examiners. Presented to the California Commission of the Fair Administration of Justice, Sacramento, CA,, January 10, 2007.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Making ACE conclusions measurable. Lecture presented to the 2007 Education Conference of the International Association for Identification, San Diego, CA, July, 2007.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Is negative evidence informative. Lecture presented to the 2007 Education Conference of the International Association for Identification, San Diego, CA, July, 2007.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Fingerprint comparison accuracy. Seminar presented to the Northern California Innocent Project, Santa Clara School of Law, October 24, 2007 at Santa Clara, CA.

2006

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. (2006).  Letter to the Editor of Journal of Forensic Identification on "A report of latent print examiner accuracy during comparison training exercises," by Kasey Wertheim, Glenn Langenburg & Andre Moenssens, J. Forensic Identification, 2006, 56, pp. 493-499. 

Haber, L., Haber, R.N., et al. (2006). Brief Amici Curiae of Scientists, Scholars, and the New England Innocence Project on Behalf of the Petitioner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Terry Patterson (petitioner), Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Submitted to the Court, August 17, 2005. Published in Criminal Law Bulletin, (2006), vol. 42, #1, pp. 1-50.

Haber, L., & Haber. R.N., Forensic Science Issues on Accreditation of Crime Laboratories and Certification of Examiners. Presented to the California Commission of the Fair Administration of Justice, Sacramento, CA., January 10, 2006.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Lineup identification accuracy by Eyewitnesses.  Presented to the California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, San Francisco, CA, March 15, 2006.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Estimates of Eyewitness Identification Accuracy.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, November, 2006, at Houston, Texas.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. The Stranger Effect in Face Recognition Accuracy.  Presented to the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, November, 2006 at Houston, Texas.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N., Why Fingerprint Identifications may be Erroneous.  Presented to the Northern California Innocence Project, Santa Clara School of Law, September 27, 2006, Santa Clara, California.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L.  Consequences of Erroneous Fingerprint Conclusions when the Suspect is Innocent.  Presented to the Northern California Innocence Project, Santa Clara School of Law, September 27, 2006, at Santa Clara, California. 

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. The Factors that Affect the Accuracy of Eyewitness Identifications.  Presented to the IMADEC University, School of Law, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 11, 2006.

Haber, L. & Haber, R.N. The Upper Limits on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy. Presented to the IMADEC University, School of Law, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 11, 2006

2005

Haber, L., Haber, R.N., et al. Brief Amici Curiae of Scientists, Scholars, and the New England Innocence Project on Behalf of the Petitioner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Terry Patterson (petitioner), Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Submitted August 17, 2005.

Haber, L, and Haber, R.N, Mindset in the Fingerprint Comparison Process. Presentation to fingerprint examiners in the crime laboratories of Los Angeles Area Police Departments, Westchester, CA January, 2005.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Contaminants in the Fingerprint Comparison Process: Factors that Introduce Mindset and Reduce Accurate Outcomes. Invited Address, 5th Annual Public Defenders Retreat, Las Vegas, Nevada, April, 2005.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Eyewitness Memory and Identification as Forensic Evidence: Its Scientific Basis, Its Accuracy and Its Limitations.  Invited Address, 5th Annual Public Defenders Retreat, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2, 2005.

Haber, L., and Haber, R.N. Mindset in the Latent Print Comparison Process.   90th International Educational Conference of the International Association for Identification, Dallas TX. August 7-13, 2005.

Haber, R.N., and Haber, L. The Science of Individuation and Identification: Commonalities across Eyewitness, Fingerprint, DNA and other Identification Sciences. 90th International Educational Conference of the International Association for Identification, Dallas TX. August 7-13, 2005.

2004

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. (2004). Error rates for human latent fingerprint examiners.  In N. Ratha (Ed.), Advances in Automatic Fingerprint Recognition (pp. 338-358).  New York: Springer-Verlag.

Haber, L. and Haber, R.N., Suggested Prosecution Responses to a Fingerprint Scientist, Presentation to the King County Sheriff Department (including members of the Seattle City Police Department), Seattle, October, 2004.

Haber, L. & Haber, R.N. Cognitive contaminants in the fingerprint comparison process.  Invited colloquium, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, October, 2004.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Risk to innocents from erroneous eyewitness identifications in lineups.  Invited colloquium, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, October, 2004.

2003

Haber, L., and Haber, R.N., Transformations: Distortions versus Differences in Fingerprint Comparisons. Invited colloquium, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the University of California at Irvine, December, 2003.

Haber, R.N., and Haber, L., Face Perception: the Identification of Strangers.  Invited colloquium, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California at Irvine, 2003.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Transformations: Theoretical components of fingerprint comparisons. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Psychonomics Society, Vancouver, BC, November, 2003.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Identification of Strangers: Theoretical components and empirical evidence.  Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Psychonomics Society, Vancouver, BC., November, 2003.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N.. Can the Legal System Justify Using Fingerprint Evidence? Research on Error Rates.  Invited address to the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Sacramento, March 20, 2003.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Can the Legal System Justify Using Eyewitness Evidence? Research on Error Rates.  Invited address to the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Sacramento, March 20, 2003.

2002

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. (2002).  Eyewitness testimony about traffic accidents.  In P. L. Olson & R.E. Dewar (Eds.), Human Factors in Traffic Accident Reconstruction (Ch. 21; pp 663-696)Tucson:  Lawyers and Judges Publishing.

Haber, L, and Haber, R.N., Research Needed in Latent Fingerprint Comparison, Presentation to the fingerprint examiners in the Crime Laboratory of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles, CA. March, 2002.

2001

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Eyewitness evidence in accident claims processing. Invited presentation at the Combined Claims Conference, City of Industry, California, March, 2001

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Reliability of expert testimony based on fingerprint evidence.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, Florida, November, 2001.

Haber, R. N., & Haber. L.  A meta-analysis of 250 research studies of the accuracy of lineup identifications made by eyewitnesses.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL, November, 2001.

2000

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. (2000). Experiencing, remembering and reporting events: The cognitive psychology of eyewitness testimony.  Psychology, Public Policy and the Law, 6, 1057-1097.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Memory and eyewitness reliability.  Invited presentation at the Lawyers and Judges Accident Reconstruction and Litigation Conference, Las Vegas, California, February, 2000.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. Eyewitness evidence in accident claims processing.  Invited presentation at the Combined Claims Conference, City of Industry, CA, March 18-19, 2001.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. A meta-analysis of 250 research studies on the accuracy of lineup identifications made by eyewitnesses.  Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, Florida, November, 2001

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N. Reliability expert testimony based on fingerprint evidence.  Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, Florida, November, 2001.

1999

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. How accurate is eyewitness testimony: what do scientists know and what to juries know.  Invited presentation to the High Desert Criminal Bar Association meeting, October, 1999.

1998

Haber, L. & Haber, R.N. (1998).  Criteria for judging the admissibility of eyewitness testimony of long past events. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 4, 1135-1159.

Haber, R.N., & Haber, L. False positive rates for eyewitness identifications: too high? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, Dallas, November, 1998.

Haber, L., & Haber, R.N.  Two case studies supporting instances of recovered memory.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, Dallas, November, 1998.

1996

Haber, L. and Haber, R.N. Eyewitness accuracy. Presentation to the Public Defenders Staff, Mono County, California. Mammoth Lakes, California, Nov, 1996.

Haber, R.N., & Haber L. Antecedent conditions and definitions for recovered memory.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, Nov 1996.

1990

Haber, R.N., and Haber, L.R. (1990) Affidavit concerning human memory retrieval.  United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.  Weidner v. Thieret, No. 87 C 4157.

1980

Haber, R. N., & Haber, L. Presentation and Seminar on Eye-Witness Identification; Illinois Judicial Conference, Evidence/Decision Making Seminar, Urbana, Ill, Conference Organizer, Judge Carl Henninger. Taught seminar attended by 120 Illinois trial judges on eye witness testimony and expert evidence offered in criminal courts, November, 1980.

 

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