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Statement of the Innocence Network On Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
December 2019, By The Innocence Network Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), now more frequently known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a medico-legal diagnosis that has served as the basis in thousands of cases where children have been separated from their … Continue reading →
Shaken Baby Syndrome Hypothesis Has Never Been Scientifically Validated
May 3, 2019, by Jenna Little, California Innocence Project For years we have known that the diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is flawed. Yet too many innocent parents and caretakers remain wrongfully incarcerated and face wrongful convictions based on this false … Continue reading →
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Jeffrey Havard’s Story Told In ‘The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist,’ by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, with a foreword by John Grisham
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, … Continue reading →
‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Diagnoses Discredited, Convictions Questioned
May 15, 2018, by Matthew Clarke, Criminal Legal News The term “junk science” does not quite cover the revolution in our understanding of the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Medical experts now know that their belief in how to diagnose … Continue reading →
Shaken Baby Syndrome As a Controversy in Wrongful Conviction Cases
Spring 2018, by Eza Bella Zakirova, Gale Academic OneFile Shaken Baby Syndrome (“SBS”) is a controversial medical diagnosis that has led to wrongful convictions. Since 2001, there have been about 2,000 cases where defendants were charged with SBS (1) and … Continue reading →
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Use of the Death Penalty for Killing a Child Victim
August 16, 2017, by Robert Brett Dunham, Death Penalty Information Center About half of all death penalty states include the murder of a child as an aggravating circumstance that can subject a defendant to the death penalty. As of January … Continue reading →
Judge reverses shaken-baby conviction
December 16, 2014, by Steve Orr and Gary Craig, Democrat & Chronicle In a ruling that could have statewide significance, a Monroe County Court judge has reversed the 2001 murder conviction of a Greece woman who was accused in the … Continue reading →
Mississippi Supreme Court overturns conviction involving Steven Hayne, Shaken Baby Syndrome
December 16, 2014, by Radley Balko, The Washington Post In May and July of this year, I wrote about the case Brandon v. Mississippi, in which defendant Christopher Brandon was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 15-month-old son. The case involved dubious testimony from the discredited, longtime … Continue reading →
A Look at Exonerations in Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases
August 15, 2013, by Monica Alonzo, Phoenix New Times Drayton Witt of Tucson spent 10 years behind bars after being convicted in 2002 of shaking to death his girlfriend’s 4-month old son, Steven Holt. And he likely would have served … Continue reading →
Levon Brooks, Time Served, 16 Years
June 2008, Innocence Project Levon Brooks served 16 years in Mississippi prisons for a 1990 rape and murder of a three-year-old girl he didn’t commit. In 2008, DNA testing cleared another man, Kennedy Brewer, who had been sentenced to death … Continue reading →
Put an end to Mississippi autopsy misconduct
April 8, 2008, Innocence Project The Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project today formally asked officials to revoke the medical license of Dr. Steven Hayne, whose fraud and misconduct has led to an unknown number of wrongful convictions. Evidence … Continue reading →
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Kennedy Brewer: Time Served 15 Years
Innocence Project In 1992, Kennedy Brewer was arrested in Mississippi and accused of killing his girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter. After waiting in jail for three years for a trial to begin, Brewer was convicted of capital murder and sent to Mississippi’s … Continue reading →
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