Finger prints are they different from normal if made when your skin has gone wrinkly from a bath?

Question

Are they still similar enough for a identity check?

Answer 1

The effect of desquamation, is to make the skin swell, hence the wrinkly affect from bathing and swimming.
Technically the match has to be all but identical, when overlaid upon each other. It is reasonable to assume that because the skin is 'puffed', an overlay would not produce an accurate match... And technically this would be classed as inconclusive....
Were a crime scene print to be 'waterlogged' then finding a match ought to be nigh on impossible, although if a close match were found and the crime serious enough to warrant it I am certain courts would/could insist upon a suspect being desquamised in an effort to clear or convict. And the opposite would merely require a period of time to allow the 'waterlogged' parts to return to normal elasticity....
It is a difficult one, if only because if said suspect refused it is almost an admission of guilt and yet it can be argued an infringement of civil rights to insist on intentional desquamation of said print(s)....

Answer 2

I'm almost positive they would still be similar enough for an identity check.

When they stamp your finger on paper, it would briefly go flat and it wouldn't matter how wrinkly it is.

Answer 3

They'd be distorted, but you might be able to use them for an identity check.

Answer 4

Don't even think about it! They can check for DNA these days.