Questioned Documents Flashcards
QDED Mission
To provide scientific support in form of documentary and testimonial evidences and conduct lectures
BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINATION
1. Document examination shall be based on written ____ from any investigating agency of the government, court order and or private requesting party, provided that the letter has been approved by t he director, PNPCL.
- Document previously examined by any competent agencies of the government shall not be reexamined except when there is a ____
- If the case is under going trial in court, disputed document shall be examined only upon order of the court having jurisdiction on the case.
REQUEST
court order.
– is any material that contains marks, symbols, or signs either visible, partially visible, or invisible that may ultimately convey a meaning or message to someone. Pencil or ink writing, typewriting, or printing on paper are the more usual or forms of documents.
document
– Any document about which some issue has been raised or that is under scrutiny.
QUESTIONED DOCUMENT
– A term suggesting that there is an argument or controversy over the document and strictly speaking this is true meaning. However, disputed document and questioned document are employed interchangeably to signify a document that is under special scrutiny.
DISPUTED DOCUMENT
– These are other less violent, more sub tile –tools and products of crime. They do not bruise, batter cut or shed blood , but they are used to steal your money, threaten your security , more than guns, knives, and pry bars.
QUESTIONED DOCUMENT
Applies the principles of science and logic to all questioned document problems in order to determine the origin, authenticity and genuineness.
FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINATION
One who studies scientifically the details and elements of documents in order to identify their source or to discover other facts concerning them.
DOCUMENT EXAMINER –
Document examiners are often referred as to a “ ________, but today the work has out grown this latter title involves other problems than merely the examination of handwriting.
handwriting identification experts
SCOPE OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT
HANDWRITING EXAMINATION ALTERATION / UNFAIR TRADE COMPETITION COUNTERFEITING IMPRINT EXAMINATION MISCELLANEOUS EXAMINATION
– It includes signature, initials, hand lettering, and other extended writing such as anonymous letter, suicide notes, extortion letter and last will testament.
HANDWRITING EXAMINATION
- It includes all kinds of erasure, addition, insertion, interlineation and decipherment of secret writings, sequence of strokes .
ALTERATION / UNFAIR TRADE COMPETITION
– It includes fake bills like peso and other foreign currency .
COUNTERFEITING
– It includes manual, mechanical and other electronic printing devices, ex. Rubber stamps, typewriter and computer printer.
IMPRINT EXAMINATION
– It includes the following examination; pre-ter natural paper characteristics Dating examination envelop tampering re-prographic examination writing media examination – instruments, inks and papers.
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMINATION
KINDS OF DOCUMENTS
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
PRIVATE DOCUMENTS
COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS
– Instruments notarized by a notary public or competent officials with solemnities required by law.
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Any instruments issued by the government or its agents or its officers having the authority to do so, and the offices, which in accordance with their creation, they are authorized to issue and be issued in the performance of their duties.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
- Every deed or instruments executed by a private persons, without the intervention of a notary public or any person legally authorized by which documents, disposition or agreement is provided evidence or set worth.
PRIVATE DOCUMENTS
- Any instruments executed in accordance with the Code of Commerce.
COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS
a. Original documents
b. Contemporaneous date of five (5) years before and after the execution of the questioned document.
c. At least eight (8) standard signatures
d. Similar writing style conventional, highly individualize to highly individualize.
SPECIMEN TO BE SUBMITTED
1. SIGNATURE
a. Original documents
b. Contemporaneous date of the standard documents, maximum of five(5) years before and after the execution of the questioned document.
c. At least five (5) pages of standard handwritings.
d. Similar writing style cursive to cursive, script to script and printed to printed.
e. Similar language dialect.
f. Similar writing instrument used if possible.
SPECIMEN TO BE SUBMITTED
- HANDWRITING
a. Original Document
b. At least four (4) pages standard documents typewritten (verbatim).
- TYPEWRITING
a. Original of the questioned documents
b. At least one standard in case of unfair trade competition
- COUNTERFEITING/ IMITATION
a. Original of the questioned documents.
- ALTERATION
SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF EXAMINATION IN QUESTIONED DOCUMENT
ANALYSIS
COMPARISON
EVALUATION
VERIFICATION
Properties or characteristics are observed or measured.
ANALYSIS
Properties or characteristics of the unknown determined through analysis are now compared with the familiar or recorded properties of known items.
COMPARISON
– Similarities or dissimilarities in properties or characteristics will each have a certain value for identification , determined by its likelihood of occurrence. The weight or significance of each must therefore be considered. The principle of identification requires that when two items contain a combination of corresponding or similar and specifically oriented characteristics of such number and significance as to preclude the possibility of their occurrence by mere coincidence and there are no unaccounted for difference . It maybe concluded that they are the same in their characteristics attributed to the same cause.
EVALUATION
Review or re do by the senior or other document examiners.
VERIFICATION
- is the result of very complicated series of acts, being as whole combination of certain series of visible mental and muscular habits acquired by a long continued painstaking effort.
HANDWRITING
Name of a person written by himself on a document as a sign of acknowledgement.
SIGNATURE
KINDS OF SIGNATURES
CONVENTIONAL SIGNATURE
HIGHLY INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURE
signatures which are readable or legible.
CONVENTIONAL SIGNATURE
Series of intertwining strokes, flourishes and ornamentations.
HIGHLY INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURE
CLASSES OF SIGNATURES
- FORMAL SIGNATURE
- INFORMAL SIGNATURE
- CARELESS SCRIBBLE
complete correct signature for an important document such as WILL.
FORMAL SIGNATURE
Signature for routine documents and personal correspondence.
INFORMAL SIGNATURE
For the mail carrier, delivery boy or the autograph collector.
CARELESS SCRIBBLE
CLASSES OF QUESTIONED SIGNATURES
________which the writers doubted or honestly not accepted as genuine.
Genuine signatures deliberately written in an unusual manner or disguised for personal convenience.
Genuine signatures taken by trickery or written unknowingly.
__________ without any attempt to copy a genuine model.
Forged signatures of non-existing of fictitious persons.
Forged signatures with close resemblance to a genuine one, which have been produced by tracing process.
Forged signatures resembling a genuine one written with freehand and otherwise known as ______
Genuine signatures
Forged signatures
simulated forgery.
Any property or mark in which distinguishes and in document examination commonly refers to identifying details.
CHARACTERISTICS
TWO GROUPS OF CHARACTERISTICS (HANDWRITING)
CLASS CHARACTERISTICS
Individual or Personal Characteristics
– Not all characteristics encountered in document examination are peculiar to a single person or thing, and that is common to a group.
- CLASS CHARACTERISTICS
EXAMPLES OF COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OR QUALITIES
- Ordinary Copybook Form
- Usual Systematic Slant
- Ordinary Scale of Proportion
- Conventional Spacing
Are those introduced into the handwriting, consciously or unconsciously by the writer. They are highly personal or peculiar and are unlikely to occur in other instances. This class of characteristics are acquires either by:
a. outgrowth of definite teaching
b. result of imitation
c. accidental condition or circumstances
d. expression of certain mental and physical traits of the writer as affected by education, environment and by occupation.
- Individual or Personal Characteristics
EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Hook to the Right and Hook to the Left
- Shape, Position, Size, and Angle of “i” Dots and “t” Crossing
- Idiosyncrasies
- Bulbs and Distinctive Initial and Final Pen Pressure
- Embellishment, Added Strokes and Free Movement
- Abbreviation of Letters
- Simple, Compound Curves and Graceful Endings
- Labored Movement producing Ragged Lines
- Terminal Shadings and Forceful Endings
- Presence of Influence of Foreign Handwriting, i.e. the introduction of Greek “e”
CHARACTERISTICS OF GENUINE SIGNATURES;
- DEGREE OF SKILL
- FIRMNESS OF STROKES
- HABITUAL SPEED OF WRITING
- FUNDAMENTAL MUSCULAR MOVEMENT
- PATTERN OF SHADING AND PEN EMPHASIS
- PRESENCE OF NATURAL VARIATION
- COORDINATION , CONTINUITY AND RHYTHM
- CARELESSNESS
In genuine signature even if showing tremors, it will show some free connecting and terminal stroke.
DEGREE OF SKILL