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Judge orders defendant fingerprinted, admits courtroom fingerprint comparison over defense challenge
Summary
In the 187th District Court, Judge Stephanie Boyd granted the state’s motion to fingerprint the defendant and denied a defense challenge to admit a courtroom fingerprint comparison; a Bexar County fingerprint examiner testified the prints matched a Tarrant County judgment.
Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court granted the state’s motion to require the defendant be fingerprinted and allowed a fingerprint examiner to testify after a defense challenge to the method was denied.
The ruling came during a pretrial/punishment-phase hearing in which the state asked the court to have an examiner take inked prints in the courtroom and compare them to prints on a prior booking/judgment. The examiner, Mia Valdez, identified herself as a fingerprint examiner with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and testified she had taken the defendant’s ink prints in the courtroom and compared them to a booking card and a judgment from Tarrant County. Valdez testified, “A fingerprint is an impression made up of characteristics that is used for a means of identification for an individual,” and told the court the right…
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