8/17/2023· Documentation Examination & Analysis
The Care And Preservation Of Documents
By: Katherine Koppenhaver, CDQE
Documents are fragile and require special handling. Not only must documents be kept in their original condition, but a chain of custody must be maintained to ensure the integrity of the documents. If everyone takes the necessary precautions to ensure the integrity of the documents, evidence will be properly preserved for court proceedings.
7/23/2019· Documentation Examination & Analysis
A Weak Forensic Document Examiner's Opinion Helps Win Case
By: Mike Wakshull
You have hired a forensic examiner to analyze evidence for your civil case. After a thorough examination of the evidence, the forensic examiner delivers a weak forensic opinion toward favoring your theory of the case. Will the examiner's weak opinion help you in trial?
1/22/2018· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Discovery of a Cut-and-Paste Alteration Without the Source Signatures
By: Mike Wakshull
Generally, document examiners state that a source signatures is needed to show that the signature on a document is cut from another document then pasted onto the document in question. In this case study, a technique is presented to demonstrate how a cut-and-paste was discovered without the source signature.
4/18/2017· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Birth Certificate Altered to Smuggle Child Into the United States
By: Mike Wakshull
When she was a girl, the young woman had emigrated with her family to the United States from her home country in Africa. She grew up in the northeastern USA and was now attending college. As part of her application for United States citizenship she must present her birth certificate. Her father sent the birth certificate to her. The birth certificate had apparent alterations. Government officials refused to accept the birth as valid because her appearance did not match the age on the birth certificate. She was born in 1994 yet birth certificate appears to state her year of birth as 1984.
1/27/2017· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Authenticity of Questioned Signature on Life Insurance After Brain Surgery
By: Mike Wakshull
The decedent signed a life insurance beneficiary form a few weeks after having brain surgery. The plaintiff claimed the signature was not executed by the decedent. The defense claimed that the decedent had signed the document and the differences are attributed to the effects of brain surgery.
2/18/2016· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Is Document Examination a Science?
By: Kathy Carlson
Forensic Scientists differ when defining document examination. Is it a science? If so, which science? What is our scientific analysis? Or, as some people believe, is document examination an art?
10/26/2011· Documentation Examination & Analysis
By: Mike Wakshull, MS, CQE, PMP, CISA
As with any other profession, document examiners have a range of expertise and experience. As important as it is for your client to make a clear assessment of your abilities, it is up to you to determine in advance, with a high degree of accuracy, whether the document examiner you plan to hire will perform the most accurate assessments and be ready to back up those assessments with a scientifically repeatable methodology in court.
4/22/2011· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Working With An Expert Witness
By: Wendy Carlson
We appreciate Windle Turley, Esq. for his excellent lecture on "Working with an Expert Witness...the Plaintiff Attorney's Prospective."
4/18/2011· Documentation Examination & Analysis
Can Forensic Experts Overcome Their Biases?
By: Mike Wakshull, MS, CQE, PMP, CISA
None of us wants to feel that our opinions are tainted by bias. The ability to recognize when bias is an influence in an expert's opinion and the skill of an expert to overcome his or her biases is integral to an expert's credibility.
by Catherine A. Ghiglieri and Jewell D. Hoover
by John D. Foubert, PhD
by Jeffrey J. Brown
