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Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a controversial and scientifically disputed [4] [5] [6] medical condition in children younger than five years old, [3] hypothesized to be caused by blunt trauma, vigorous shaking, or a combination of both.
Nick Flannery faces 12 years in prison for allegedly shaking his 2-month-old son. Child protective services are ignoring the other possible causes of his son's medical problem.
In 2016, the Court of Criminal Appeals sent the case back to the trial court because the scientific consensus around shaken baby syndrome diagnoses had started to fall apart.
The court found scientific opinion about "shaken baby syndrome" has changed, and a man sentenced to 35 years in prison deserves a new trial.
He was critical of the broad application of the shaken baby syndrome diagnosis in legal proceedings, saying that medical illnesses could sometimes cause similar issues to shaken baby syndrome. [8] He published a clarion call for civility in the discourse concerning the controversy, and that it was not possible to infer shaking or any other form ...
Throughout the following years, the case of Roberson began to garner attention due to the fact that a key factor of his conviction was "shaken baby syndrome", a scientific theory that some critics label junk science despite the majority of researchers in the field recognizing that some patterns of injury are suggestive of abuse which may at ...
Doctors attributed his ongoing health issues and death to shaken baby syndrome. Russell Maze was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2004.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. from a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.. Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis.