
Forensic science comes to the Christmas Lectures, with Professor Dame Sue Black
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We Know It Like the Back of Our Hands
Change of plea means that the accused is changing their plea from either not guilty or a no comment response to yes okay it is me. We do know the back of our own hands if you see a photograph you would recognize it's your hand because there are only two parts of our body much of the time that are in view to the public and we recognize people primarily from their faces. There is a genetic predisposition towards a particular form of hands but many of the other features are features that develop when you're in utero inside your mum or develop when you’re out in the real world and you're exposed to environments or trauma.
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