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FBI Expert Lyndal Shaneyfelt, the plaintiffs expert on documents who had testified in the Howard Hughes will case in Nevada, told the jury that the paper the alleged w ill w ps typed on w as not exactly square and had been cut by a paper cutter to a non-standard size, 7Vi bv 7%. The paper had been through a xerographic copier before being tyoed on with an IBM selectr 'vpewriter, Shaneyfelt reported. The typing in the alleged will contained only one error, an “h" in place of an “n” in “Virginia" and the “h” had been lifted off by the machine’s correcting feature with the "n” typed in place, according to the ex-FBI agent who’s had 25 years of experience in examining documents.
Using a special grid, Shaneyfelt continued, he determined that alignment of the typing on the alleged will was off both horizontally and vertically, showing that the typing of the signature dateline and w itness datelines wasn’t done at the same time as the typing of the body of (he document.'The paper was taken out of the typewriter between the typing of the body and the rest of the alleged w ill, he said.
With the jury dismissed, Shaneyfelt explained to the judge that after tests on an IBM selectric. he reached the "probable conclusion” that the signature witness block was typed first. He reached this conclusion, he said, after typing the entire document, putting it back in the typewriter and lining up on the underline lines that are used in the signatures “and finding the underline used for the last will and testament is out of alignment by the same degree on my test sample” as it was on the alleged will. Shaneyfelt acknowledged, however, that he’d never given testimony on typing sequence based on this theory during his 25 years as a document examiner.
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