A recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court could affect the conviction of a Texas man sitting on death row for shaking his 2-year-old daughter to death. On Nov. 21, the state Supreme Court ...

Robert Roberson, who was nearly killed due to the discredited “shaken baby syndrome” theory, is still at risk. Last month, an appeals court blocked the state of Texas from executing Robert Roberson ...

HOUSTON(AP) — Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder ...

Attorneys for death-row inmate Robert Roberson urged a Texas court Tuesday to weigh a new ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court that found shaken baby syndrome evidence too unreliable for juries — ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed with the lower courts in finding that expert testimony on the diagnosis of abusive head trauma, known as shaken baby syndrome, isn’t scientifically reliable.

Like the majority, we do not subscribe to the leit-motif running through the dissent—that biomechanics is somehow a much less important scientific community than medicine notwithstanding that it was ...