Expert Credentials

The following provided expert testimony in the post conviction phase of Ohio vs. David Thorne. We are pleased to have some of the finest experts in their respective fields testifying on David's behalf.

Current Employer: Senior Partner, Forensic Solutions LLC
Title: Forensic Scientist & Criminal Profiler
Duties: Casework, course instructor, & course development

Professional Activities
Mr. Turvey has participated as a forensic scientist and /or criminal profiler in the investigative or trial phase for both law enforcement and attorney clients around the World. The greatest volume of his casework has focused on the examination and interpretation of physical and behavioral evidence relating to the following:

Mr. Turvey has qualified in court as an expert in the areas of Criminal Profiling, Criminal Investigation, Crime Scene Analysis, Crime Reconstruction, Offender Signature Analysis, Offense Motivation, Staged Crime Scenes, and Victimology. Mr. Turvey continues to consult with private individuals, attorneys and law enforcement agencies in both criminal and civil matters.

Professional Lectures & Presentations
The following is a short list of professional lectures and training given by Mr. Turvey to educational institutions and professional organizations:

Published Works
The following is a list of peer reviewed works authored by Mr. Turvey that have been published or accepted for publication.

Martin D. Yant Investigations is a full-service licensed private investigative agency with a passion for truth and justice that digs rather than dusts.
Yant has conducted high-profile pre-trial and post-conviction investigations across the country. His investigations have helped free several wrongly convicted inmates. Among them were two men originally sentenced to death who spent 26 years in prison and a couple incarcerated for 12 years on false child-abuse charges.
Yant has also conducted many civil investigations, including a fatal jail beating that resulted in one of the largest civil-rights settlements in Ohio history. In the process, Yant has become adept at conducting background checks, surveillance, skip-tracing and other skills.

Martin D. Yant was an investigative reporter and editor in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Miami and Ohio before he became a private investigator. In 1979, the Georgetown University graduate's journalistic investigations of corruption in Mansfield, Ohio, made international news and led to the jailing or resignation of numerous public officials.
When Presumed Guilty, Yant‘s much-praised book on wrongful convictions, was published in 1991, he left a job as an editor and columnist at The Columbus Dispatch to pursue independent journalism and private investigation.
Since then, Yant has conducted high-profile pre-trial and post-conviction investigations across the country.
In 2002, an investigative series of articles Yant co-wrote on a controversial death-penalty case that won the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists' award for criminal-justice reporting. In 2005, ‘The Washington Post' named Yant's ‘Presumed Guilty' one of the most important books on miscarriages of justice ever published. Writer Steve Weinberg said Yant "is as important for his relentless tracking of wrongful convictions as he is for this much-needed survey of cases."

Michael Robertson is a retired U. S. Secret Service Agent and has operated his investigative and document examination business for 17 years. He is court qualified as a document examiner and fraud investigator. Complete list of services is available on his website http://www.robertsoninvestigations.com

Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (inactive)

Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Designed and teach a Questioned Doucument seminar for attorneys with 3 CLE credit hours.

Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: No

Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: Hundreds

Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Questioned documents, fraud investigations

Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: Depends on the case type: Medical malpractice 90%, others about 50/50

Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: Depends on case type: Criminal 100%, others 50/50

Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: Dozens

Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: Fall 2004

Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 200

Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 200

Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 15

Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Document examinations, fraud investigations, complex investigations, death investigations.

Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: Initial consultation is no fee.

Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: The average examination and written report is $750.00 which is the standard retainer. Medical malpractice and large volume cases such as election fraud are hihgher and quoted on a case by case basis.

Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: $750.00 half day or less plus any travel expenses.

Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: $750.00 for half day or less, plus preparation time and travel expenses.

Mr. Tom Conway
Lombardi, Hofer, Hanna, Conway
2745 Nesbitt Ave.
Akron OH  44319
330-745-2175

Mr. Peter Cahoon
Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs
50 South Main St.
Akron OH  44308
330-258-6534