Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge ...

Prosecutors presented scientific testimony that the girl had so-called shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis now viewed as fundamentally flawed — so much so that the lead detective in Roberson’s ...

At oral arguments before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday, state prosecutors fought to include expert testimony on shaken baby syndrome at trial. Two fathers, Darryl Nieves and Michael ...

What is shaken baby syndrome? The diagnosis refers to a serious brain injury caused when a child’s head is injured through shaking or some other violent impact, like being slammed against a wall or ...

Infants living in bed-sits or with single parents are at greater risk of becoming victims of so-called shaken baby syndrome ... claims many are as a result of adults violently shaking small ...

Roberson had been set last Thursday to become the first person in the U.S. executed over a murder conviction connected to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. He was taken to America's busiest ...

It occurs when an inflicted head injury, caused by an adult forcefully shaking an ... because the definitions of shaken baby syndrome are vague and inconsistent, often overlapping with symptoms ...

"There's no such thing as shaken baby syndrome," he said, arguing the traumatic head injury it intends to define would ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson is once again the subject of last-minute maneuvering as his scheduled testimony before a bipartisan group of Texas legislators Monday is shrouded in uncertainty.