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Expert Foundation Cases



JGPI investigators routinely prepare Foundation Declarations for all to-scale deliverables and have testified as experts on scene preservation and reconstruction dozens of times in state and military courts.



Civil



Plaintiff tripped, fell, and suffered a leg injury while taking a shortcut to her apartment mailbox through a foliage-shrouded path. Her lawsuit alleged the apartment owner maintained a dangerous condition even though it provided a well-lighted winding path to her destination.

JGPI reconstructed the scene from site measurements and photographs and submitted a Foundation Declaration to save the cost of expert testimony at trial.

​After exhibit exchange, the case settled very favorably for the defense.

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Criminal



In support of a motion for retrial for a pawnshop murder, JGPI reconstructed the viewpoint of a witness who observed the act for about one second. Our principal testified in Nevada state court how a three-second animation was created that demonstrated how brief the eyewitness had to positively identify the Defendant from the back of his head.

A new trial was granted.



Military



A Marine Lance Corporal confessed to murdering his best friend by shooting him in the head and then staging it to appear as a suicide. The victim was found gripping the pistol under his body with the safety in the “on” position.

JGPI prepared photographic evidence explaining how that likely occurred when the body was rolled over. We also prepared a life-size scene courtroom reconstruction of part of the victim’s barrack to demonstrate how the lack of a void pattern in blood back spatter proved Defendant was not the shooter.

After his Article 32 hearing, the Defendant was exonerated.



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