[Rome2000]

Handwriting Services of California

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CURRICULUM VITAE AND GENERAL RESUME
MARCEL B. MATLEY
DOCUMENT EXAMINER AND HANDWRITING EXPERT

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)

[Rome2000]

Robert Stack: Is it possible that the experts are right? Could the "suicide" note of one of President Clinton's most trusted advisors have been forged? The implications are staggering - but only if these particular experts are correct. At least one other expert says they are not.

Marcel Matley: There is nothing in the questioned document that would support any finding of forgery. And the things that are brought forth - the apparent fragmentation - and those things are explained by the fact that we have a deteriorated copy and that fact that the man was under some emotional stress at the time.

[Keith in Iowa]

Dan Rather's CBS Evening News 'Forensic Expert' Was Behind Kurt Cobain Murder Conspiracy

CBS TAng Expert Witness Also Voutched for Vince Foster Suicide Note

[kcinnh]

Dan and his memo expert..follow the link and see the picture, http://www.fairpress.org/mbow02/outragearchive0610.htm. I need to learn how to post these things.

[COEXERJ145]

Maybe this was an Arkancide on the Kerry campaign.

[haywoodwebb]

The plot thickens!

And once again, Slickmeister's influence shines through.

[sgtbono2002]

I have never doubted that Vince Foster committed suicide. If I had sex with Hillary ,I probably would too. My doubts are with his being found in Ft Marcy under mysterious circumstances, I think he committed suicide in his office in the White House and was moved.

[ikka]

Now we KNOW the Clintons and their scumbag fellow travelers are involved! Out of all the handwriting examiners in the USA, they *just* happened to pick the same one that provided cover for the Vince Foster murder.

[JesseHousman]

Vince was murdered under orders, or by direct action, of the dragon lady: Hitlery von Rotten Klinton. Her poor marxist husband-thingy has finally had a heart attack over the event.

Eventually, after their remains become ashes, all the other myriad of bodies will surface with the Klinton's fingerprints abounding.

[Mach9]

You mean CBS actually uses handwriting experts. It found and hired one? After how many years. Makes you wonder how long it will take them to find one for the forged documents about Bush.

[Michael Goldsberry]

WOW! Great work!

Anyone care to take a guess at what this did to Shrillary's chances in '08?

[shrinkermd]

When I was younger and smarter I did a forensic evaluation of Foster's suicide that appeared in AIM. Basically, this was not a "suicide note." It had none of the characteristics. It was actually a "resignation rehearsal note." Later, both Mrs. Foster and McClarty agreed this was actually Mr. Foster trying to gather his thoughts prior to resignation.

Part of the problem in assessing suicide is that about 15% of all suicides have no threats or other indications of suicidal intent. The fact that this "note" was quickly described as a "suicide note," no doubt, contributed to the quick assumption by the public and others as to the fact of the suicide.

[over3Owithabrain]

He points to the fact that the words beginning with the letters "th"

Oh my god - this is too bizarre! I'm getting the willies...

[Jack Black]

Did not ever get a degree?

[lawdog]

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.

This "expert" is not a trained or experienced investigator. No law enforcement experience or training...How much "criminal investigation" training has she had ? Apparently NONE... Yeah she's an " expert for hire". That means she is from "out of town".

[Truthfairy]

This guy seems to have a pretty thin resume, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is an expert at handwriting analysis. He claims no expertise with respect to determining authenticity of typed documents. As was pointed out on another thread, that is the gut issue here and he has no more expertise than I do. The best that he can do to support Honest Dan's case is to attest to the authenticity of the signatures. So what? The signatures easily could have been photocopied from the genuine memos that the White House released and cut and pasted onto the forged memos before they were recopied umpteen times to produce the "degraded" copies that Matley reviewed.

[wildbill]

In a part of the Rather interview with Mately tonight there was one line that stopped me cold--and it hasn't been talked about or noticed.

Mately said something about how he knew he'd be under scrutiny and how the opinion might affect his career...BUT then he said, "WE HAD TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH."

Who is "WE" Experts are supposed to be independent with no ax to grind. It sounded to me that this was a cause dear to Mr. Mately's heart.

To find out he's been a Democrat shill before just puts him in the same class as Private Investigator Anthony Pellicano who testified as an 'independent investigator' that the Clinton/Flowers tapes had been dubbed. It wasn't until years later that everyone learned he was a Democratic operative.