hought Diana. Aloud, she continued, "They contradicted some of
my evidence and I was not given a chance to CLARIFY their testimony
with my witnesses."

What is she trying to pull now, Henry moaned to himself, but much to
his surprise, Diana pulled her notes in front of her and began her
closing remarks.

"Now, for the first charge--that I created false SmurFFs. I have shown
that the document examiner erred regarding the 'suspect' SmurFFs they
examined. One, at least, was a recognized student written evaluation.
Therefore, their opinion on all of the documents is open to question.
Several witnesses have testified as to the wrist injury I sustained,
showing that I could not have written the two SmurFFs Lyle said he
found in the course last year.

"Also, the 'suspect' SmurFFs from previous years are highly dubious as
evidence of anything. They are not dated and there has been no
discernible chain of custody established. Ian could not even identify
them and disagreed with Randy that they were somehow different from the
rest of the evaluations received.

"I remind you again that document examiners are not infallible and that
only a couple of small examples of my handwriting were submitted to
them that were NOT copies. We have just seen that Lyle had other
examples of original writing of mine. Why didn't they submit original
writing as standards or better yet, authenticate the standards by
having them written in the presence of the document examiner?

"In point of fact, none of the writing used as standards were
authenticated and this makes them moot.

"The second charge, that I submitted these 'suspect' documents as
student SmurFFs, is unproven. That is because none of the student
SmurFFs for those years in question can be validated. This is because
of the way the evaluation process is administered. Therefore, a chain
of custody for the so-called suspicious SmurFF's was not and cannot be
established.

"In the 25 years that I have worked at this university, I have never
been accused of dishonesty. My work has not been criticized. My
teaching ability has always been praised. The biggest criticism that I
have received is that I am at times abrasive.

"You have heard enough to form the obvious conclusion about how I was
treated in the department and how heavy my teaching load was. I hope
you will pay attention to the fact that right here under oath, Lyle,
the person who has made these charges against me,