Captain Morales sat on the left side, laying a clear plastic magnifier sheet over the forged bank signature card.

“Look at how the M in Miller slants,” Morales said, pointing with her pen.

“Your real military signature sample has a sharp forty-five-degree angle.

The forgery uses a rounded loop.”

“That meets the standard handwriting comparison requirements for federal fraud,” Dalton said, taking a blue cover sheet out of his desk drawer.

“It won’t survive ten seconds in front of a judge.”

He set the finished civil complaint in the middle of the table.