Danyel Smith has served 21 years of a life sentence at Dooly Correctional Facility in Unadilla, Georgia, for the 2003 murder of his two-month-old son, Chandler. The sole evidence against him at trial ...
This decision arises out of two consolidated cases. In State v. Nieves, when the defendant’s son, D.J., was 11 months old, he suffered three medical episodes over the course of two weeks, during which ...
In two child abuse cases, New Jersey top court says expert testimony unreliable 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' has come under scrutiny amid questions about the science New Jersey court is the first to ban ...
The court found that prosecutors did not prove general acceptance in the medical and biomechanical communities that shaking alone causes the syndrome's symptoms. This ruling impacts two Middlesex ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common cause of shaken baby incidents is continuous crying. Cavan Images via Getty Images In the early 1990s when I was a young ...
New Jersey’s highest court ruled Thursday that expert testimony about shaken baby syndrome is scientifically unreliable and inadmissible in two upcoming trials, a decision that comes as the long-held ...
The path to stopping the country’s first execution based on the refuted theory known as “shaken baby syndrome” narrowed Wednesday after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency to Robert ...