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Falsifying Documents As Part of a Bigger Scheme
Falsifying documents can lead to serious legal charges. Forging documents with the intention to defraud an organization or individual is often classified as a white-collar crime. This type of crime covers a wide spectrum of activities and is often charged as a...
Signature Analysis for Determining Authorship
Everyone has unique handwriting. Throughout our lives, especially when we're learning how to write, we develop individualizing characteristics that make up our handwriting. While we normally have no reason to contemplate these characteristics; they are scrutinized...
Three Decades of Document Examinations
For over 32 years, this document examiner has received a wide variety of cases. The diversity of document issues keeps the work quite interesting for myself and my colleagues. The passing of time has influenced the case types. Initially, I received examinations...
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...
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...
Writing Specimen Considerations
During the collection process of signature specimens to submit with the questioned signature(s), maximize the comparison process by the following: Collect ‘like’ documents. For example, if a signature was written on a legal document it is preferable to submit...
Signature Comparisons: Just One Aspect of Document Examinations
Commonly, when a document is called into question the signature becomes the focus of attention. Forensic document examiners conduct signature comparisons, but also look for other evidence on the document. To assist with this process, specialized laboratory instruments...
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James A. Green,
Forensic Document Examiner
2456 Suncrest Ave,
Eugene, OR 97405
