The Dallas Morning News read roughly 3,000 pages of court documents from Roberson’s guilt-innocence trial, punishment phase, ...
There are about 1,300 reported cases of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma in the U.S. each year, according to the National Center on Shaken ...
“The idea behind it was just to tell the story of people like our daughter, Alexis, that experienced shaken baby syndrome ...
Now, a complicated legal wrangle is playing out, with campaigners claiming an innocent, 57-year-old man risks becoming the ...
Even before the Texas man’s death sentence became a political lightning rod, law enforcement and medical experts had ...
Paxton's and Harris’ statements maintain that shaken baby syndrome was not the basis of Roberson's 2003 ... She (also) reported that a CT scan revealed a single small impact site that couldn’t explain ...
As our scientific understanding of shaken baby syndrome has evolved over the past 20 years, justice requires that courts reexamine old convictions in light of new findings. This is especially true ...
The only reasonable explanation is trauma. The medical findings fit a picture of shaken impact syndrome. There was some ...
"This case is about the scientific reliability of the shaken baby syndrome or abusive head trauma without signs of impact," Mason said. "That is the scientific theory the state has relied upon in ...
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 ...
“What we have in shaken baby syndrome theory is a desire to explain a child’s ... engineering field—the field from which the diagnosis first derived—should impact whether courts reject this evidence.
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.