Posted on 10/11/2025 8:37:32 PM PDT by xxqqzz
DALLAS - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has paused what would be the country’s first execution for a murder conviction centered around shaken baby syndrome.
Robert Roberson, a 58-year-old from Palestine, Texas, was convicted for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002. He has maintained his innocence the entire 23 years he has spent on death row.
This is the third time lawyers have been able to delay his execution as many question the science behind shaken baby syndrome and whether Roberson was given a fair trial as an undiagnosed autistic person.
Gretchen Sween, the attorney for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, speaks after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed his execution. Roberson would have been the first person executed in the US for a conviction based "shaken baby syndrome" diagnosis.
What's new: On Thursday morning, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals paused Roberson’s Oct. 16 execution date.
The court granted the stay based on the state’s junk science law which allows a person to seek relief if the evidence used against them is no longer credible.
It pointed to a case last year that overturned the conviction of Andrew Wayne Roark in a shaken baby case.
What they're saying: "We are relieved and grateful that members of the Court of Criminal Appeals appreciate the parallels between Andrew Roark’s case and Robert Roberson’s," Roberson’s attorney, Gretchen Sween, said in a statement. "The case is being sent back to the district court for further proceedings. The issue will be whether the decision granting relief to the now-exonerated Andrew Roark requires relief for Robert as well."
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There are so many crazy questions in this case, and so much more that is known now than was back then. I don’t think this guy ever got a fair shake. I hope it gets sorted out correctly and that justice is done…in what ever way.
“...58 years old...has spent 23 years on death row...”
IIRC, I’ve read that severely low vitamin D status of mom and developing child can mimic shaken baby syndrome in the newborn.
“… and whether Roberson was given a fair trial as an undiagnosed autistic person.”
So what? If you commit a crime, you do the time. Demonrats get all of the blame for this judicial insanity.
The article states the baby might have died from pneumonia.
Shaken baby syndrome has been replaced with abusive head trauma. So has the charges against him been updated?
Yes, "the article states".
Justice delayed is Justice denied. Just end this already.
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