Publications
These annotated selections from my complete list of professional publications give a basic grasp of document examination and how best to employ your examiner and question the opponent's.
1. Practical Litigator. "Using and cross-examining handwriting experts." 13:21-33, Sept. 2002.
A cross-examiner paused to tell me the guide he was using. He realized it was this paper he relied on as authoritative for cross-examining a handwriting expert. What more can I say?
2. San Francisco Attorney's Magazine. "More on forensic document examiners." [Letter to editor] 1994:5-6, April-May 1994.
The individual I discuss under Blocking a Blitz of Lab Tests has had a paper published innumerable times on how to choose a document examiner, once in this magazine. He claims only the small clique of 200 or so people who belong to ABFDE are qualified. Replies from Robert J. Phillips, M. Patricia Fisher and myself dismembered the man's thesis in different ways.
3. San Francisco Attorney's Magazine. "The expert ambush: How to hold off your opponent until the cavalry arrives." 25:20-2, Feb.-March, 1999. [Reproduced by permission of San Francisco Attorney's Magazine in www.ExpertPages.com/news, in June 1999.]
This offers advice on how to handle a surprise expert the plaintiff offers as rebuttal, although the testimony properly belongs in the case in chief.
4. Forensic Expert Witness Association Newsletter. "Handling the handwriting expert (or any other expert)." 2004:3, 15-16, Summer 2004.
I give earthy rules, such as, "Thou shalt leave thy ego at home," and "Thou shalt cover thy fanny."
5. Forgery: Detection and defense. A guidebook for legal professionals. San Francisco, Handwriting Services of California, 1988.
I believe this monograph's format is superior to any similar text I have ever seen. Why? It gives numbered checklists on what to do on all essential tasks.
My major publications may be purchased from Jacqueline Joseph, jjoseph@jjhandwriting.com.
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