Trump's team backed an expert review of Epstein note. How would it work?

"While the digital image of Trump's alleged signature has been plastered across the internet since Democratic lawmakers released the note earlier this month, handwriting analysts generally do not consider such copies to be reliable. Tahnee Dewhurst, a handwriting expert and principal examiner at Acari Consulting in Australia, said a document examiner would not only look at the overall shape of the signature in question, but also minor details that make it unique."

"Tahnee Dewhurst, a handwriting expert and principal examiner at Acari Consulting in Australia, said a document examiner would not only look at the overall shape of the signature in question, but also minor details that make it unique. What a document examiner tends to look at is more fine-line features, Dewhurst told Al Jazeera. We'll start to look at relationships between letters, such as size proportion, slant proportion, where one letter connects the next letter, where it leaves the letter, height proportion."

Handwriting analysis is used in legal proceedings worldwide, including criminal trials and disputes over wills and inheritance. The discipline is considered relatively accurate when practised by experienced professionals, though it is not infallible. A 2022 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found 86 forensic document examiners misattributed a handwriting sample in 3.1 percent of cases and incorrectly excluded a writer in 1.1 percent of cases. Reliable examination requires access to original documents and signature samples from the same era, since digital images and internet copies are generally not considered dependable. Examiners analyse fine-line features such as letter relationships, size and slant proportions, connection points, and height proportions.

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