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.”
Outdated stereotypes and crimes that never occurred create unique challenges for women seeking exoneration.
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.
In January, a New Jersey judge said Shaken Baby Syndrome is “akin to junk science.”
Spurred by an Appeal investigation into Michelle Heale’s controversial 2015 case, a law professor is asking New Jersey’s Conviction Review Unit to “correct an injustice” and set Heale free.
A man is serving two life sentences for a crime that, according to his legal team, never occurred.
Accused of shaking a baby to death and facing the death penalty, Amy Wilkerson says she is innocent, but pleaded guilty to spare her life.
Josie Duffy Rice and guest co-host Zak Cheney Rice talk with Radley Balko, opinion journalist at the Washington Post and author of The Cadaver and the Country Dentist, about faulty forensic science.
With Appeal staff reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg.
The state said Michelle Heale shook the baby to death, but some experts say her conviction was based on debunked science.