California Court of Appeal

A jury, under Evidence Code section 1417, can compare an exemplar of a defendant's handwriting with handwriting on disputed documents to determine if the defendant signed the disputed documents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2005
• Published 10/18/2005

Judges

• KITCHING, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• A. William Bartz, Jr., Torrance, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey B. Kahan, and Michael J. Wise, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.