Paul J. Pitt, LPI  (Calif. Lic. 7217)
1280 W. Main St. #13, El Cajon CA 92020
Phone 619-249-5401 pitt.paul@gmail.com


P R O F E S S I O N A L H I S T O R Y
Paul J. Pitt dba Best P.I., Private Investigator (Calif.Lic. PI 7217) LPI Since 1978

Executive Director, East Central Illinois Crime Commission
Regional Director, U.S. Department of Justice (L.E.A.A./I.L.E.C.) PL90-351 LEAA)
Illinois Trooper, Illinois State Police

E D U C A T I O N
B.S., Loyola University of Chicago
M.P.A, Roosevelt University of Chicago, (Public Administration)
Illinois State Police Academy (1963)
Northwestern University Traffic Institute accident investigation
University of Illinois, Criminal Law
Paralegal (certificate 1994),
No charge for consultation and interview; no charge until services performed.
       
I call it “the formula:”    Title, Right, Duty, Breach, Proximate Cause and Damages. 

Title:  Person is a natural  person (human) or a corporate person (corporation, city, country, government, special district, charity, sovereignty).  A person can be a child or even a deceased person but cannot be an animal   A PI must prove the identity of the party named (Will the real John Doe please stand up).

Right:  “rights” come from the Bill of Rights (of course).    We ALSO get rights by grant from governments, corporations and other men: title, easement, lease, license, permission and authorization are several of the many way we get rights by grant from someone (who has the authority to grant it). The owner of land in fee simple absolute can grant rights to a lessee can grant a sublease and a sublessees can grant license. Etc. A right  must be proved by evidence.  .. and there are important rules about evidence

Duty: when there is a right there is  a duty to abide.   A breach of the duty  must be proved with evidence.

Proximate cause: there must be no intervening cause or “force” that (without which) the loss would not have occurred.  Proximate cause OR intervening cause must be proved by evidence.

Damages: there are actual damages which are the actual loss.   There may be punitive damages (to punish) (the court and the jury decide) and there may be liquidated damages. Often a contractor agrees to pay a penalty for every day (week, month) that the job is not completed.   

There are a few more things but in a claim of right (marine, transportation, inn keeper, care giver, etc.) a PI must prove every element 

A guy married to a Colombian wife  died  of a heart attack on a fishing boat outside the national limit (on the high seas).  He did NOT die in San Diego (US) or in Mexico....  I had to prove (a ) he existed (you cannot die if you do not exist)  I had to prove (b) he was dead.  (Not faking it, hiding, fraud) and ( c) she was his wife (the marriage)  to establish her right to Social Security, truck, leasehold, savings account, insurance etc.  

WHO,WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW                       

Paul J. Pitt, LPI  (Calif. Lic. 7217)
1280 W. Main St. #13, El Cajon CA 92020
Phone 619-249-5401 pitt.paul@gmail.com