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ASSUMPTIONS FOR SALE! (PLUS A LITTLE LOGIC)
When I was in my preteens in Buckeye, AZ, during World War II, my brother and his good friend in ninth grade at the time, I do believe, decided they would go into business together. They set up targets and loaded their B-B guns with pellets. Two good loud voices...
PAYING FOR SPOLIATION: IS DAMAGE BY INK EXPERTS ALWAYS WORTH IT?
It has long been the practice that, if your opponent hires an ink expert to opine on the age of ink writing on a paper document, the first expertise practiced is to poke 20 or more holes in your precious evidential document. This permanently damages portions of the...
OPINIONATIVENESS: YES, IT’S IN THE DICTIONARY
Annually, the American President and his wife host an Easter egg hunt on the White House front lawn. Far more often than annually, some handwriting experts go on a forensic egg hunt. They diligently hunt for any resemblance between the same letters in a questioned...
EXCESSIVE SELF-ASSERTION: MY EVIDENCE IS JUST AS GOOD AS DNA!
Some handwriting experts claim expertise by saying they are as good as, if not better than, other kinds of experts. In a number of cases, handwriting experts have used this assertion in reference to scientific DNA evidence. I guess if one cannot prove expertise on...
A and M Matley
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