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Facts and Forensics %u2013 Expert Forensic Consultants %u2013 July 2026 4 of 9Copyright %u00a9 2026 Associates in Forensic Investigations, All Rights ReservedJuly Article: Facts and ForensicsIn our world of evidence, the foundation is Forensics. From digital to anatomical, crime scene to interview %u2013 Forensics plays a role, often multiple, in your cases.What is Forensics? That depends on who is asking and why they want to know. Essentially, it is simply the application of [fill in the specialty blank] to the law. It is finding the evidence, analyzing the evidence and reporting the evidence %u2013evidentiary fact finding. For us, F.O.R.E.N.S.I.C.S. is the Facts Or Reasonable Evidence Necessitating Systematic Investigative & Critical Solutions. Your investigative education, training, background and experience are vital to the clients and the strategy of their legal solutions on behalf of their clients. We are all familiar with Forensics %u2013 and with the reality, not fiction.We are finders of fact and solutions critical to our clients. In Forensics we do so by understanding that science does not lie, but the misapplication of scientific methods to our investigations may produce fouled solutions. Are there issues with the official investigation and evidence? Possibly, however, it is not intentional to look for errors %u2013 the purpose is to see what the facts and evidence tell us. What is most often the case is missed evidence or evidence applied to the information incorrectly %u2013 non-factual presented as facts.One of the tasks of almost every investigator %u2013 particularly those involved in civil and criminal litigation %u2013 is to review, deconstruct and analyze any underlying official investigation %u2013 such as a motor vehicle collision, workplace incident or premises liability. You have the advantage of experience and cognitive skills outside the box; it is what professional investigators do best. Although there are limitations, such as time and budget, there is also have latitude %u2013 finding and 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 %u2013 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 %u2013 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 %u2013 event specific and historical %u2013 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 %u2013 not in a vacuum.Your investigation %u2013 using the components of Forensics %u2013 may reveal, as an example, the following:%u2022 First Scene (house) %u2013 involving multiple unknown assailants, inflicting non-fatal injuries;%u2022 Second Scene (remote location) %u2013 involving multiple unknown assailants, inflicting non-fatal and fatal injuries;%u2022 Defendant %u2013 including injuries and clothing with defects corresponding to injuries; and%u2022 Witnesses %u2013 including involved assailants, any discovering the decedent, and to any event from assault to transport.The Forensics of your case will reveal various information %u2013 all connecting each other to reveal the events. This may also contradict any official findings %u2013 usually in part, as well as any theories %u2013 including your client%u2019s. Of importance is determining if, and how, evidentiary connections are made of locations, persons, and instruments %u2013 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 %u2018facts%u2019 not supported by the evidence, and additional alternative theories for your attorney-client.PRIDE %u2013 Professional Reliable Investigators Defining Excellence!Thank You!