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Historical Product Inventions
During my initial apprenticeship period, I had the good fortune to train with document examiners at the US Postal Inspection Service in San Bruno, California. A document examiner in the laboratory presented a copy of a postcard to me, postmarked in 1912. She asked if...
Common Document Examinations
As a Forensic Document Examiner, I provide a resource for resolving alleged forged document issues in civil and criminal cases. For clarification, the term 'forgery' is a legal term, used to broadly define the intentional falsification of a signature or document. It...
Handwriting Comparisons
Most document cases for handwriting experts in private practice involve handwriting comparisons. How is hand writing differentiated between people? Initially, writers learn to write by emulating a handwriting system taught in school. As students mature, they quickly...
Opinions Rendered by Document Examiners
Before document examiners can develop an appropriate opinion for his/her client following a signature or handwriting examination, consideration is given to whether the questioned and known specimens relied upon were original or photocopies, the number of known...
Minimizing Signature Forgeries
Signature forgeries are the most common type of issue clients present to the signature expert they hire. Many of the involved signatures are abbreviated and lack a few or many of the individual letters in the name. It is common for people signing their name...
Mortgage Documents
In the recent past, mortgage fraud was a frequent topic in the media and remains a concern of many home owners. Although there were many instances of mortgage fraud in the past, every case submitted to a handwriting expert must obviously stand on its own merits and...
Indented Writing
Although commonly overlooked, indented writing may be of significant value in resolving questioned document issues. As the term implies, indented writing is the non-visible indentations or images applied to a sheet of paper positioned below the page actually written...
Identification of the Writer of Simulations or Tracings
Requests are commonly received for a forensic document examiner to compare a simulated or traced signature with writing samples of the purported ‘forger’. The expectation is to confirm a suspected writer was responsible for the simulation or traced signature. The...
Contact
James A. Green,
Forensic Document Examiner
PO Box 5379
Eugene, OR 97405
