CHAPTER IV Flashcards
Are condensed and compact set of authentic specimens which, if adequate and proper, should contain a cross section of the material from a known source.
STANDARD/ STANDARD DOCUMENT
Are being used for a cross section or cross examination of a questioned document.
STANDARD/ STANDARD DOCUMENT
They are known writings which indicate how a person writes. A writer manifests fixed habits in his writings that identify him.
STANDARD
In questioned documents investigation, we mean those things whose origins are known and can be proven, and which can be legally used as examples to compare with other matters in question.
STANDARD
A general term referring to all authenticated
writings of the suspects.
STANDARD
Specimen of the writing of suspects are commonly known as exemplars.
EXEMPLARS
Refers more especially to a specimens of standard writing offered in evidence or obtained or request for comparison with the questioned writing.
EXEMPLARS
A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to characterize known material. Standard is the older term.
EXEMPLARS
Are those already in existence that the attorney or investigator collects.
COLLECTED STANDARDS
They may be bank records, letters, legal forms, and the like.
COLLECTED STANDARDS
Standards should be collected from a period dated _______ of the date questioned document, with some written within weeks or
days of the questioned writing.
Within a year
Is a Latin phrase commonly used in legal contexts.
POST LITEM MOTAM
Those which are given or made upon the request of an investigator for purpose of making comparative examination with the request writing.
REQUEST STANDARDS
Are those that the subject is requested to give to facilitate the document examination.
REQUEST STANDARDS
Request standards are signature or other handwritings (or hand printings) written by an individual upon request for the _______with other handwriting, or for specimen purposes.
Purpose of Comparison
Means “after”.
POST
Refers to “lawsuit”, “legal action” or a “litigation”.
LITEM
Translates to “moved” or “initiated”.
MOTAM
Means after a litigation has commenced.
POST LITEM MOTAM
The willful modification of a person’s own handwriting for the purpose of concealing his or her identity.
DISGUISED WRITING
The efforts of the writer are directed towards hiding his or her personal characteristics.
DISGUISED WRITING
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL IN HANDWRITING
A. Physical and Mental Effects
B. Evidence of Alcoholic Intoxication in Handwriting
ADMISSIBILITY OF STANDARD WRITINGS
- Standard writings witnessed
witnessed by the facilitator. - Standards writings admitted
- Record Maintained in Regular Course of Business as Standard Writings
- Government Document as standard Writings
- Ancient writings
- Other Writings Standards
Familiarity sometimes establishes standard writings
