Bouf, it's interesting that you brought up "fingerprints" and I'll spare us with any OJ references lol., sure, I can see why the District Court would rely on the arguments over evidence that was before it. We also understand, as a matter of possiblity, that experts are not infallable, and as humans, they may have failed to reconcile the fingerprint evidence beyond any reasonable doubt.
The Federal Court is tasked to act as a check against rulings born of possible defects of interpretation. It's an absurd interpretation of the law, imo, if the law mandates ignorance of statistical evidence emperically arguable in the "public domain", in derence to an unchecked reliance on "supposed" expert testimony.
JMHO
ILT