Deck 13: Document Evidence

Question 1

Documents such as fraudulent checks, counterfeit currency, ransom notes, bank robbery notes, suicide notes, contested wills, forged contracts, and fake passports are all examples of different types of evidence that may be collected at a crime scene and submitted to the Forensic Odontologist.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Handwriting offers the investigator the ability to determine the identity of an individual. Handwriting characteristics are of two types: __________________ and ______________.

A) Style and Personal
B) Form and Structure
C) Cursive and Print
D) Block and Curve

Answer 2

A

Question 3

_______________ characteristics are the general type to which cursive writing belongs. This general type is learned in school and used by most people. Personal characteristics are changes made in the general _______________ characteristics both intentionally and unconsciously by the writer. (The answer is the same for both blank lines above)

A) Style
B) Personal
C) Form
D) Structure

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following factors are used to make a determination of forgery or whether the same person wrote both samples?

A) Relative size
B) Slope and spacing
C) Way in which it is formed
D) All of the above

Question 5

Writings for examination can occur from sources such as checks, receipts, tablets, walls, furniture, doors and dead bodies.

Question 6

When collecting and packaging dry, or chemically treated, documents it is best to use _________________.

A) Cardboard box
B) plastic bag or sheet protector
C) clean paint can
D) electrostatic pag

Question 7

When collecting and packaging documents with wet blood it is best to dry the item and use _________________ to transport it to the lab.

A) Cardboard box
B) plastic bag or sheet protector
C) paint can
D) electrostatic pag

Question 8

_______________ examination can be used to answer two questions: (1) Was a signature or document a forgery? (2) Were two writings made by the same person?

A) Print
B) Handwriting
C) Typeset
D) Copier

Question 9

You are at the scene of a fire and recognize a burned folded piece of dry paper believed to be a threatening letter from the suspect to the homeowners. What is the best action to take to preserve and collect the item?

A) Open it, photograph and place it in a clean paint can and transport to lab
B) Open it, photograph and place it in paper bag and transport to lab
C) Photograph the document as it was found, place it in a plastic bag or sheet protector and transport it to lab.
D) Photograph it as it was found, open it, photograph again and transport as is to lab

Question 10

Documents should be handled ____________ so as not to leave prints or DNA that may confuse subsequent tests.

A) Without gloves
B) With chemical rated gloves
C) With forceps
D) With electrostatic bag

Question 11

When collecting documents, they should be folded and placed in an envelope. If it is damaged or torn, you should repair it and write your initials on the document with a unique identifier.

Question 12

Prior to processing a document for fingerprints, it should first be ________________ with a document scale present.

A) Packaged
B) Transported to Evidence Unit
C) Photographed
D) Scanned

Question 13

The purpose of exemplars is to give the examiner of the document in question an unknown specimen of the victim's handwriting, thus providing a source of the writer's individual writing habits and personal style characteristics.

Question 14

In order for a document examiner to determine if a document is a forgery it is essential that _____________________ are obtained for comparison.

A) Exemplar writings
B) More questioned documents
C) FBI cards
D) None of the above

Question 15

If burned paper is found in a metal file box, it _____________ be removed from the box; rather, it ___________ be transported in the container in which it was found.

A) Should, should not
B) Should not, should
C) Should not, should not
D) Should, should

Question 16

You respond to the scene of a crime in which writing was on the body of a deceased victim. What is the best way to record the writing evidence?

A) Skin graph
B) Electrostatic lifter
C) Photography with scale
D) Scan

Question 17

There are two general types of handwriting exemplars: ________ and ________.

A) Informal and formal
B) Form and Structure
C) Cursive and Print
D) Block and Curve

Question 18

This device can provide forensic document examiners an extensive toolbox for detecting irregularities on altered and counterfeit documents. Detection of alterations include: watermarks, different inks, tampering, photo-substitution, and others.

A) Video Spectral Comparator (VSC)
B) SWGDOC
C) Loop
D) RUVIS

Question 19

This group focuses on standards and guidelines related to the forensic analysis, comparison, and evaluation of documents.

A) SWGSTAIN
B) OSAC Forensic Document Examination Subcommittee
C) PCAST
D) National Academy of Science (NAS)

Question 20

The written and spoken language may be characteristics of an individual. The use of words, syntax, spelling, and grammar may assist which forensic investigator in establishing identity?

A) Forensic Odontologist
B) Forensic Linguistics
C) Forensic Anthropologist
D) Forensic entomologist

Question 21

The Forensic Document examiner may establish that a document is genuine, can identify or exclude persons who wrote the documents, may identify the source of machine-produced documents and restore the legibility of documents.