Leo Ackley: Michigan: (Shaken baby syndrome); Bulletin; Major Development: He has once again been found guilty, The Battlecreek Inquirer reports. Ackley was convicted and sentenced in 2012 to life in prison without parole in her death. But the Michigan Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Ackley after ruling that his trial attorney should have called an expert to contradict prosecution medical doctors who said the girl died from an inflicted rather than an accidental injury. The defense attorney for Ackley, Andrew Rodenhouse, has argued that the medical science of abusive head trauma is flawed. His expert, Dr. Ljabasa Dragovic, Oakland County medical examiner, testified at the end of the defense case that the autopsy on the child was incomplete and did not prove when or how the child was injured. Calhoun County Medical Examiner Joyce deJong testified last week that the injury was severe and the child would have shown immediate symptoms. Rodenhouse had argued the little girl may have been injured when she fell from a small trampoline into a plastic kiddie pool five days earlier. Dragovic also questioned the prosecution analysis that bruises on the little girl showed a pattern of abuse before she died."

"Leo Ackley was found guilty Thursday of felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the 2011 death of his former girlfriend's daughter, Baylee Stenman, 3. A Calhoun County Circuit Court jury of seven woman and five men deliberated more than 10 hours before reaching the verdict Thursday afternoon against Ackley, 30. The Battle Creek man was on trial for the second time in the 2011 death of his former girlfriend's daughter, Baylee Stenman, 3. She died from what the Calhoun County Medical Examiner said was blunt-force trauma to her head. Ackley was convicted and sentenced in 2012 to life in prison without parole in her death. But the Michigan Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Ackley after ruling that his trial attorney should have called an expert to contradict prosecution medical doctors who said the girl died from an inflicted rather than an accidental injury. The defense attorney for Ackley, Andrew Rodenhouse, has argued that the medical science of abusive head trauma is flawed. His expert, Dr. Ljabasa Dragovic, Oakland County medical examiner, testified at the end of the defense case that the autopsy on the child was incomplete and did not prove when or how the child was injured. Calhoun County Medical Examiner Joyce deJong testified last week that the injury was severe and the child would have shown immediate symptoms. Rodenhouse had argued the little girl may have been injured when she fell from a small trampoline into a plastic kiddie pool five days earlier. Dragovic also questioned the prosecution analysis that bruises on the little girl showed a pattern of abuse before she died."
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2016/10/20/ackley-again-found-guilty-2011-murder-girl-3/92469666/