Death row inmate Robert Roberson was charged with murdering his daughter Nikki in 2002 based on evidence that Nikki died from shaken baby syndrome. It has become a high-stakes case with ...

“Given the one-sided picture of Mr. Roberson that has been recently portrayed in the media, we feel obliged to speak up and defend the real victim ... on the “shaken baby syndrome” theory ...

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 ...

At oral arguments before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday, state prosecutors fought to include expert testimony on shaken baby syndrome at trial. Two fathers, Darryl Nieves and Michael ...

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 ...

Infants living in bed-sits or with single parents are at greater risk of becoming victims of so-called shaken baby syndrome ... claims many are as a result of adults violently shaking small ...

Monday’s hearing stretched late into the night as lawmakers at the Capitol in Austin heard testimony on the inmate’s case and the shaken baby syndrome ... who works with adults who have ...

In 2002, Robert Roberson found his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, unresponsive after she fell off a bed in the family’s house in the East Texas city of Palestine. Roberson took her to ...

Pennsylvania law mandated the implementation of the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Act by the ... Additionally, they often are the only adults besides the parents or caretakers to fully examine ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell, just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to die by lethal injection for the "shaken baby" death of his toddler. While he ...

Advocates for Roberson insist the diagnosis that his daughter died from shaken baby syndrome is inaccurate ... “The conclusion is simply (Nikki) was a victim of abusive head trauma.