The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.” ...
The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...
Supporters of death row inmate Robert Roberson say the state is about to execute an innocent man. Roberson was convicted of shaking his child to death.
Starting in the 1980s, shaken baby syndrome was commonly diagnosed when ... Studies have found that shaking a baby hard enough to generate those symptoms would likely also result in a broken ...
No theory beyond shaken baby syndrome was every seriously investigated ... where we need to be taking long, hard looks at what we think is justice. DAVIES: Roberson was convicted and sentenced ...
The shaken baby syndrome diagnosis from doctors and nurses ... The moment, Wharton said, was hard to describe. “It’s wonderful to receive his forgiveness,” Wharton said.