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Within-expert contradiction

The finding, documented by Dror and Charlton (2006), that the same examiner can reach contradictory conclusions about the same mark-exemplar pair across two examination sessions when the contextual framing differs, demonstrating that conclusions are not purely determined by the friction-ridge evidence.

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