In a decision last month that could impact other cases, an appellate court ruled that “the very basis of the theory has never been proven.”
The medical examiner who helped put Tasha Shelby in prison has since said her son’s death was not a homicide.
Expert says trauma from childbirth, not shaking, led to the death of Danyel Smith’s two-month-old child.
The ruling is a setback for the state’s so-called junk science statute.
Advocates say junk science was used to convict Jimenez. DA Margaret Moore has not yet decided whether she will drop charges or retry her.
Tina Rodriguez was sent to prison in Texas for allegedly starving her son to death. But recent discoveries about the medical examiner who conducted the baby’s autopsy raise questions about her case.
After being released from prison, her only chance is a pardon from the governor.