October 6th:         Exercise of Ignorance
In 1989 D. Michael Risinger, Mark P. Denbeaux and Michael J. Saks wrote an article that was published in the Pennsylvania Law Review entitled Excorism of Ignorance As a Proxy for Rational Knowledge: The Lessons of Handwriting Identification Expertise. This article attacked the field of handwriting identification as being unsupported with scientific research that would validate the work of Forensic Document Examiners. Highlights of this article will be discussed.

There will be no class on September 29th.

Future Classes
October 13th:       Starzecpyzel Case
October 20th:       Deposition Testimony
October 27th:       Court Testimony


Additional Classes
Additional sessions are planned. Some of the topics include: Detecting Alterations, Public Speaking, the History of Document Examination, Foreign Scripts, ASTM, Why Document Examiners Disagree, and Historical Cases. The complete course covers two years of weekly classes.

Fall Seminar
The Second Annual Forensic Document Examiners" Seminar took take place on Sept. 19th and 20th. It was a successful seminar and workshop. All the participants enjoyed it. Next year's seminar will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Our featured guest speaker was Brian Breedlove, an attorney from New York who talked about testifying and assisted with our Mock Trial.

Harry Burke's Signature
Did Harry Burke sign the questioned document?

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Updated September 22, 2008