STORY: "Judge to rule by year's end in shaken baby case," by reporter Steve Orr, published by the Democrat and Chronicle on November 6, 2013.
GIST: "Monroe County Court Judge James Piampiano said Wednesday that he would decide before year's end on a motion to set aside the shaken-baby murder conviction of a Greece woman. RenĂ© Bailey was convicted in 2001 in the death of a 2 ½-year-old girl whom Bailey was watching in her home day care. Bailey said the child had jumped from a chair and hit her head, leading to the brain injuries that killed her. But prosecutors argued that the girl's injuries could only have been caused by violent shaking or hitting by an adult. In Piampiano's courtroom Wednesday afternoon, however, lawyer Adele Bernhard argued that since Bailey's trial, research has found that other events — including falls — can cause type of injuries in question. Were the proceeding to be held today, she said, the outcome likely would not be the same. "The jury would be presented with very different expert testimony," said Bernard, a law professor at Pace University in Westchester County who is representing Bailey pro bono. "It would be much more probable the jury would render a verdict more favorable to the defendant." Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Matthew Dunham threw cold water on the idea that the scientific consensus has shifted since 2001, however. "I don't think that opinion is commonplace in the medical community, nor does it even rise to being a controversy in the medical community," he said."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2013/11/06/judge-to-rule-by-years-end-in-shaken-baby-case-/3457681/
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