Questioned Documents

What kind of evidence is handwriting?

• Individual evidence

• Class evidence

• Biological evidence

• Circumstantial evidence

Which of the following methods are not used by document examiners?

• Microscope analysis

• Photographs

• Chromatography

• Gel electrophoresis

Document ink can be chemically compared using what method?

• infrared spectrophotometry

• gas chromatography

• thin layer chromatography

• none of these

Which of the following are items a document examiner would analyze?

• typescript

• handwriting samples

• inks

• all of these

Questioned documents include:

• petitions and lottery tickets

• rare books

• contracts and passports

• all of the above

Which of these would NOT be a questioned document?

• lottery ticket

• receipt

• photo

• passport

Any signature, handwriting, typewritten, or other mark whose authenticity is disputed.

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

The examination of documents for authenticity, alterations, erasures, and obliterations.

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

Someone who scientifically analyzes handwriting.

• Vice cop

• Document examiner

• Toxicologist

• Anthropologist

Some people actually DO have identical handwriting.

• True, so it's always considered class evidence.

• False, so it's considered indiviual evidence

• True, but only when they get older.

• True, only when they are related.