The quick answer is that lawyers are not supposed to lie, but they canât necessarily prevent their clients from lying. Iâll get to the details in a minute â honestly--but first Iâm happy to tell you that the podcast version of this article is brought to you by Go To Meeting.
Fingerprints on paper, cardboard and unfinished wood can last for up to forty years (per actual casework histories) unless exposed to water (and contaminate transfer prints can even then sometimes persist).
Under this method, only a national background check is conducted. Our goal for civil fingerprint cards electronically submitted to the FBI is to process and provide a response within 24 hours. Today, we are meeting this goal 99 percent of the time, and our average response time is approximately two hours.