The date on the disputed notarial certificate was from earlier in November.

The babies’ names had been chosen before their birth and communicated to the family; their presence on a form did not require someone to have seen them first.

Other identifying information appeared to have been added later.

I asked that the named notary be contacted through the investigation.

I did not claim to know the history of her seal from looking at the page.

That information would come from records, not from a judge’s instinct.