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reporting facts, and not either constrained or focused on reasonable suspicion, probable cause, reasonable doubt or
possibly promotions or bonuses; unintentional distractions and precursors to tunnel vision.

In Forensics it is often a problem looking for a solution, and they are not always obviously connected. It is a scientific art.
The evidence in your review consists of all the available official records, reports and photographs – from all scenes, and
any decedent or victim, as well as means of transport, location of event, and location found, are scenes. What do the
witnesses state – either in official investigation reports or independently to a professional investigator? What
information is within the law enforcement records and reports? What information is in the autopsy and investigative
reports? Are there medical records – event specific and historical – of any decedent or victim? Finally, what do the
official investigation photographs indicate? The review and analysis of every available detail is important, and in context
with each other – not in a vacuum.

Your investigation – using the components of Forensics – may reveal, as an example, the following:
• First Scene (house) – involving multiple unknown assailants, inflicting non-fatal injuries;
• Second Scene (remote location) – involving multiple unknown assailants, inflicting non-fatal and fatal injuries;
• Defendant – including injuries and clothing with defects corresponding to injuries; and
• Witnesses – including involved assailants, any discovering the decedent, and to any event from assault to transport.

The Forensics of your case will reveal various information – all connecting each other to reveal the events. This may also
contradict any official findings – usually in part, as well as any theories – including your client’s. Of importance is
determining if, and how, evidentiary connections are made of locations, persons, and instruments – the process of
forensics. Of course the legal strategy to your case will be at the discretion of the attorney-client. You have completed
your investigative tasks, consulted with experts, provided evidence, possibly dispelled adverse party ‘facts’ not
supported by the evidence, and additional alternative theories for your attorney-client.

For each of us our specialties are honed skills to be proud of. They are each integral to civil, criminal, probate,
administrative, domestic and insurance investigations.

PRIDE – Professional Reliable Investigators Defining Excellence!

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