What are the Nine (9) standardized Handwriting Opinions?
• Identification: Definite identification, highest degree of confidence in one’s opinion that the handwriting belongs to the identified party. • Strong Probability: Highly probable, very probable. • Probability: Evidence indicates that the questioned and known may have been written by the same person but it is not conclusive. • Indications: There are some indications of similarity but not enough to identify conclusively. • No Conclusion: Totally inconclusive, unable to make a determination. • Indications/Did Not: Equivalent of the more positive “Indications,” but on the negative side. • Probably Did Not: Evidence more strongly against the questioned and known having been executed in the same hand. • Strong Probability: Evidence indicates that the writing very probably is not done in the same hand, almost certainty that it is not the same. • Did Not/Elimination: Definite conclusion that the questioned and known writing are not in the same hand. Highest degree of confidence.
