STORY: "Adrian Thomas found not guilty in son's death - update," by reporter Mollie Eadie, published by the Troy Record on June 12, 2014.
GIST: "Editor’s Note: A Rensselaer County Court jury has found Adrian Thomas not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his four-month-old son. Check back for updates on this ruling."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.troyrecord.com/general-news/20140612/adrian-thomas-found-not-guilty-in-sons-death-update
See related Times Union story: Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before acquitting Thomas just after 3 p.m. Thomas looked surprised but remained composed as the not guilty verdict on one count of second-degree murder was read........Prosecutors had argued Thomas threw his 4-month-old son, Matthew Dante Thomas, down on a bed in frustration, causing trauma and death on Sept. 23, 2008........."He's stunned," said Thomas' attorney Stephen Coffey. "After six years he's getting to go home a free man. This verdict is clearly the right thing." Coffey used testimony from outside medical experts to argue the baby died of a serious bacterial infection and not at the hands of his father. Thomas was convicted in 2009 of second-degree murder in the boy's death, but the state Court of Appeals ordered a new trial. The justices cited heavy-handed tactics used by investigators, who interrogated Thomas for almost nine hours before he demonstrated how he threw the child."
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Adrian-Thomas-found-not-guilty-in-son-s-death-5548244.phphttp://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Adrian-Thomas-found-not-guilty-in-son-s-death-5548244.php
See related "On SBS" post: "The retrial of convicted father Adrian Thomas produced a not guilty verdict today, a decision reached by jurors who did not learn about the 9-hour interrogation examined in the award-winning 2012 film Scenes of a Crime or hear testimony from the detectives who conducted it. Thomas’s initial conviction in 2010 for the presumed shaking death of his 4-month-old son was overturned in February, when an appeals court determined that the interrogators’ heavy-handed tactics made the resulting confession inadmissible."
http://onsbs.com/2014/06/12/jury-finds-adrian-thomas-not-guilty/
PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
Dear Reader. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog. We are following this case.
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and myself get more out of the site.
The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-charles-smith-award-presented-to_28.html
I look forward to hearing from readers at:
hlevy15@gmail.com.
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog;
