Curtis Baggett is a forensic
document examiner and expert witness. He is also a skilled authority
in handwriting identification and has completed almost 4,000 cases
since 1990. Curt has examined documents and/or testified in court
cases as a handwriting expert in all 50 states, Washington D.C.,
the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, England, Ireland, Mexico, Pakistan,
Puerto Rico, Thailand, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
He has been a consultant
as a forensic document examiner for the #1 rated television show,
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", and has appeared as
a handwriting expert on CNN, CNBC, INSIDE EDITION, CBS, NBC, FOX,
JUDGE ALEX and TEXAS JUSTICE. He is the co-author of "The Handwriting
Certification Home Study Course" and has been a guest on various
television and radio programs discussing handwriting and forensic
document examination.
In addition
to lecturing and teaching document examination, Mr. Baggett has
analyzed handwriting for over 30 years. He has been qualified as
an expert witness in various courts; Justice of the Peace, Municipal,
District, State, U.S. District, and Federal Bankruptcy.
His education and training
in document examination and psychology include the following: US
Army, Military Police Officer's School, B.A. and M.Ed. from McNeese
State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, and postgraduate studies
at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Mr. Baggett is certified
by the American Institute of Applied Science, the American Bureau
of Document Examiners, and Dr. Ray Walker as a handwriting expert
and questioned document examiner. Dr. Walker's qualifications have
been affirmed in the Court of Appeals, Fifth District of Texas at
Dallas with historical rulings in his favor. A leading authority
in the field of handwriting analysis and document examination, Dr.
Walker is the author of The Questioned Document Examiner and the
Justice System.
Curt Baggett's library
is extensive and includes literature on questioned document examination,
forensic handwriting analysis, and behavior profiling. Laboratory
equipment used for examination consists of a Stereo Star Zoom American
Optical 7x - 30x twin microscope, Micronta illuminated 30x microscope,
stereo microscope S/ST series, universal DigiScoping adapter, numerous
magnifying devices, light tables, protractor and metric measuring
devices, Pentax ME camera, Pentax macro 1.4, 50mm flat copy lens,
overhead projector, and transparencies.