Case Stories

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...

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...

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...

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...