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What a morbid subject! But someone has to read them. John Lajoie is a pro at reading, interpreting, and extracting information from death certificates and autopsy reports for investigation purposes. Whether involved in a criminal or civil death investigation, the death certificate and/or autopsy report can make or break the case. In this article which was published in the 2004 fall/winter issue of[...]

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In this award winning article that was first published in The Legal Investigator in 1997, John M. Lajoie, CLI, intricately details the many investigative techniques and steps required to conduct a successful criminal defense “self-defense” investigation. Defense theories, legal elements, conditions and stages are discussed; indexing and file management is explained; preliminary investigation, [...]

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