Frank Anuse asked if another examiner would find the same
similarities in the same letters.
The answer was, "Given equal training, they should pick out
the same things that I did." He went on to explain that examples
were given in books and the document examiners studied the books.
On being asked if the material could have been written by
an expert forger, he answered much differently than the first
document examiner. "Who would know? I'm not saying it couldn't
be done, but I don't feel that it was." If the women on the
panel had been alert, they would have challenged a scientist that
felt a conclusion--feelings were more in the realm of the arts.
Science was supposed to deal with facts.
He explained that he had asked for more standards because
the ones sent were not complete. Yet the first analyst had said
she was one-hundred-percent certain on the basis of what was sent.
"I wanted more recent samples to see what variations there were.
We don't write every letter the same every time. We look for the range."
Asked if handwriting analysis was as exact as fingerprints,
he said, "It is as individual and as unique as fingerprints.
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