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Handwriting Services of California

BORN: Phoenix, AZ, September 21, 1933

SERVICES OFFERED:

Handwriting authentication and signature verification.
Identification of the maker of handwritten numerals
Genuineness of logs, diaries, and other writings in series.
Serve as either confidential consultant or testifying expert.
Oral or written opinion, which can be a full, illustrated, written report to facilitate settlement or in the form of a declaration under oath.
Question formulation to examine opponent's document examiner; also pertinent citations for cross-examination from learned treatises.
Identification of the writer of poison pen letters and anonymous writings.
Other aspects of questioned document examination.
Impeachment of erroneous, incomplete or incompetent expert handwriting opinion.

CREDENTIALS:

Certification with commendation, Paul de Sainte Colombe Center, January 28, 1981
Awarded Charter Membership Certificate for professional excellence, Paul de Sainte Colombe Center, April 8, 1982.
Consultant and mentor to other document examiners.
Honorary membership, National Questioned Document Association, March 1992.
Consulted by Texas Education Agency, Proprietary Schools Div. and other agencies.
San Francisco Tax Registration Certificate. Expiration date: 12-31-95
Activity Approval, Committee on Minimum Continuing Legal Education, The State Bar of California, March 27, 1995

EXPERT WITNESS:

Accepted in Federal Bankruptcy Court and Superior, Municipal Courts, and Administrative Law Courts of California.
Testimony in arbitration hearings and in depositions.
Complete listing of testimonies available upon request.

CLASSES AND LECTURES:

Private classes have been offered since 1981.
Lecture series titles SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS IN HANDWRITING SCIENCES, for professionals and advanced students.
Organizer, co-producer and instructor at three annual SEMINARS IN DOCUMENT EXAMINATION, in San Francisco. Attendees came from across U.S. and Canada.
Presenter at NADE Conferences and Pre-conferences: 1992: HUMAN GRAPHIC MOTOR SEQUENCE. 1993, two-day intensive course: THE PHYSIOLOGY AND FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF HANDWRITING. 1994: ANSWERING CHALLENGES OF VOIR DIRE.
Presenter of Workshop, QUALIFICATIONS IMPEACHMENT, ABFE 1993 Conference.
1995 IGS-AFDE Joint Conference: A PROTOCOL FOR RESEARCH IN DISGUISED HANDWRITING AS ILLUSTRATED BY SLANT.
1995 AHAF Symposium: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HANDWRITING, A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP.

LISTINGS:

FORENSIC REGISTER OF EXPERT CONSULTANTS, Bar Association of San Francisco.
Directories: INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF HANDWRITING ANALYSTS; WHO'S WHO IN GRAPHOLOGY; and HANDWRITING ANALYSIS REGISTRY.

PUBLICATIONS:

STUDIES IN QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS. 1. "Photocopies in Document Examination." 2. "Exorcism of Ignorance; a Reply from a Holographic Expert." 3. "Logged Entries: Made Separately or Sequentially?" 4. "Exemplars for (XXX)." 5. "Health and Handwriting, an Annotated Bibliography." 6. "The Employing and Examining of the Expert." 7. "Reliability Testing of Expert Handwriting Opinions." 8. "Signature Disguise by Change of Slant."
FORGERY: DETECTION AND DEFENSE: A GUIDEBOOK FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSIONAL, 1988.
QDE INDEX: PERIODICAL ARTICLES IN ENGLISH ON DOCUMENT EXAMINATION, HANDWRITING EXPERTISE AND EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Also published in: AHAF JOURNAL; JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DOCUMENT EXAMINERS; COMMUNIQUE, THE DOCUMENT EXAMINER'S NEWSLETTER; CALIFORNIA PARALEGAL MAGAZINE; AT ISSUE (San Francisco Association of Legal Assistants); WRITE EXTENSION; AHAA DIALOGUE: JOURNAL OF FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; NATIONAL PARALEGAL MAGAZINE (Scheduled); VANGUARD; THE NATIONAL DOCUMENT EXAMINER; SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY; SCIENTIFIC SLEUTHING REVIEW.
Other writings in the field, published and unpublished. The published books and monographs have been marketed to professionals nationally and internationally.
Published works in other fields.

EDUCATION:

Saint Francis College, El Cajon, CA 1952-54. Liberal arts, Science.
Immaculate Heart Seminary, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 1954-60. Courses included Philosophy, Logic, Rational Psychology, History, Rhetoric.
Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA. MALS, June 1963
San Diego State College, San Diego, CA, 1962-63. l Graduate studies, Political Science.
1979-80 Privately instructed by Rose Toomey, author of HEALTH CLUES IN HANDWRITING.
Seminar on the handwriting of criminals, conducted by Ted Widmer of San Francisco.
1991 and 1992 National Conference of NADE, and other seminars and conferences.
On-going research in the legal, forensic and academic literature.
Primary research in methods of disguise, writing with the opposite hand, and others.

SPECIAL RESOURCES:

Personal collection of more than 1500 books, monographs and papers in handwriting science and document examination, along with current subscriptions..
Developed a computerized data base of approximately 4500 articles in forensic and legal periodicals. This is an on-going research project, covering 1870s to date.
Memberships in NADE and AHAF bring access to extensive lending libraries of professional literature.
Microphotography and optical filters.
Optics such as stereoscopic microscope and other tools for close, accurate observation and measurement of questioned handwriting documents.
Specialized equipment such as Kinderprint Indentation Materializer.
Association with professionals having specialized skill and equipment so that unique or unusual requests can be referred to highly qualified colleagues.

MEMBERSHIPS:

National Association of Document Examiners (NADE). Chairman of 1993 Conference in San Francisco. Committee memberships: Editorial committee for the Association's Journal.
American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF), an international organization based in San Jose, CA. Foundation Librarian and member of the Board.
Borrowing member of American Association of Handwriting Analysis Research Library, Downers Grove, IL.
International Graphonomics Society, Society for the Science and Technology of Handwriting, headquartered at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Vidocq Society, Philadelphia, PA.
The American Society for Testing and Material. Committee E30 of Forensic Sciences.
Participant, Crime Laboratory Proficiency Testing program of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, Inc.

REFERENCES:

Professional references will be made available upon request.

(09-06-95)