In Checklist of Suspicious Features, Jacqueline A. Joseph, Certified Document Examiner and handwriting expert witness writes: If you have a suspicious document or handwriting or typewriting, these clues should alert you to the need for a document examiner: Only copies are available, and they are of unusually poor quality. The…
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Gangs Expert Witness On Beating Death of Surfer
A gangs defense expert says that five young men charged with murder and gang allegations in the beating death of a surfer outside his La Jolla home do not fit the legal definition of being members of a criminal street gang. San Diego News reports: Alfonso Valdez, a University of…
Handwriting Expert Witness On Suspicious Documents – Part 2
In Checklist of Suspicious Features, Jacqueline A. Joseph, Certified Document Examiner and handwriting expert witness writes: If you have a suspicious document or handwriting or typewriting, these clues should alert you to the need for a document examiner: The paper, ink, mode of production or other feature of the document…
Rules For Working With Economics Expert Witnesses – Part 6
In 14 Rules For Working With An Expert Economist, expert witness Dr. Jerome M. Staller offers “rules” to follow that will help your economics expert witness do the best job he or she can for you and your client. Never ask your expert to go beyond the scope of his…
Aviation Expert Witnesses & “Open Skies” Part 2
Zoltan Kazatsay from the European Commission’s Directorate for Energy and Transport had this to say regarding “Open Skies”: “The European Union has one clear political goal, we want to establish an open aviation area between the United States of America and the European Union. But how to reach this specific…
Rules For Working With Economics Expert Witnesses – Part 4
In 14 Rules For Working With An Expert Economist, expert witness Dr. Jerome M. Staller offers “rules” to follow that will help your economics expert witness do the best job he or she can for you and your client. Never cross examine the opposing expert in deposition. Instead, inquire and…
Handwriting Expert Witness On Suspicious Documents
In Checklist of Suspicious Features, Jacqueline A. Joseph, Certified Document Examiner and handwriting expert witness writes: If you have a suspicious document or handwriting or typewriting, these clues should alert you to the need for a document examiner: No one knows the document’s origin or the history of its custody.…
Aviation Expert Witnesses & “Open Skies”
Aviation expert witnesses will no doubt be called to testify before Congress regarding “Open Skies” between the United States and European Union. C. Boyden Gray, the U.S. envoy to the European Commission, said that a lot of work would need to be put into persuading the U.S. Congress not to…
Rules For Working With Economics Expert Witnesses – Part 3
In 14 Rules For Working With An Expert Economist, expert witness Dr. Jerome M. Staller offers “rules” to follow that will help your economics expert witness do the best job he or she can for you and your client. Use your expert to assemble, review and analyze data. Your expert…
Construction Expert Witness on Common Construction Defects – Part 2
In Common Construction Defects, expert witness Pete Fowler describes how substandard construction during Southern California’s 1980s building boom has created a construction defect litigation “industry.” He writes: Attorneys, acting as advocates for homeowners, hire these experts in the effort to prove that shoddy workmanship is causing new homes to rapidly…