From experts practice of revealing obliterated and obscured notes and signatures

• Authors: Nikolay Bodrov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the analysis of practice, which allows for identification of hidden texts and signatures. The examples of subsequent handwriting researches of de­tected notes, signatures and people, on whose behalf they were made, are given. In this article there is a description of optical research of dashes, which were created by com­mon and special pens. The author formulated all practical recommendations about work­ing with research equipment, programs and creating illustrations (phototable) to expert testimony. There are several findings: 1) the aggressive impact on the document some­times does not preclude the successful handwriting identification of the remote notes and signatures perpetrator; 2) based on the outcome of the practice analysis, it points to the need of joining two specialties: «technical and criminalistics examination» and «forensic handwriting examination» due to the fact that practicing experts in the handwriting field often make mistakes.

Keywords

EN

forensic science questioned documents; forensic handwriting examination; notes; signatures; obliterate; obscured

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Nowa kodyfikacja prawa karnego
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 44
• Pages: 55-63

Contributors

author

Nikolay Bodrov

• Institute of the Forensic Examinations Kutafin Moscov State Law University (MSAL), Russia