Now he says
under oath that he does not know. These errors nullify the report."
"I feel that the report tells us what we asked from the document examiners."
With that, Henry thought, the book is closed. No one could argue with that.
You get what you pay for. Case closed.
Doggedly, Diana continued. "Did you do a top of the letter pattern?"
"I beg your pardon. Would you explain what you mean by
top of the letter pattern?"
With subsequent questions, Diana established that he did
not know what bottom of the letter pattern, space pattern
or slant pattern were. These techniques, common to document
examiners, were completely unknown to this so-called expert.
Trenchant explained to him what these common handwriting tests
were all about.
It was then established that he only did a letter comparison.
He claimed that the other tests or techniques, "were done by graphologists."
His attitude made crystal clear that he considered graphologists to be
a very dirty word. "I," he continued, with a conceited accent on the word,
"am a document examiner." When Diana named her source of information
and held up the book of a prominent document examiner, his reply was,
"That person must come from a different viewpoint that I do.
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