Tonia Miller: Michigan: (Shaken baby syndrome): Major (Welcome) Development: In prison since 2003 - that's 17 years! - and the Michigan appeals court has reopened the case...Tonia Miller has been in prison since 2003 when she was convicted of second-degree murder. Defense experts believe Miller’s 11-week-old daughter died from pneumonia — not head trauma referred to as shaken baby syndrome."

BULLETIN:  (Associated Press): "The Michigan appeals court reopened the case of a Battle Creek woman who has lined up experts to offer new opinions on the death of her daughter in 2001. Tonia Miller has been in prison since 2003 when she was convicted of second-degree murder. Defense experts believe Miller’s 11-week-old daughter died from pneumonia — not head trauma referred to as shaken baby syndrome. The appeals court this week ordered an evidentiary hearing in Calhoun County and assigned the case to a different judge. It’s possible Miller could get a new trial."

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 Read previous post of this Blog  (Dated March 8, 2018) at the link below: The Headnote: 

"Tonia Miller: Michigan: Major assault on out-dated shaken baby syndrome so-called 'science': Legal teams from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University are challenging the conviction of the 34-years-old mother convicted of killing her 11-week-old daughter in 2001, WOODTV reports. (Tonia Miller has spent her entire adult life in prison.)..."Now 34-years-old, Tonia Miller has spent her entire adult life in prison convicted by a Calhoun County jury of second-degree murder. As things currently stand, she will be there until at least April 9, 2023. But the legal teams at two Big Ten universities believe that Miller did not shake her newborn child to death. David Moran is a founder of the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, which has worked to exonerate people wrongly convicted of crimes, a number they estimate to be around 1,500. “Well, we looked into this case because it appeared to us to be a pure outdated ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ case,” Moran said Wednesday from his office at Michigan Law School. Now, the clinic is filing an appeal in Calhoun County Circuit Court seeking relief from judgement for Miller who was convicted by a jury following expert testimony presented by both the defense and prosecution. “Our group of experts agreed that this wasn’t a shaken baby syndrome death, in fact the most likely cause was pneumonia,” Moran said. Moran says since 2003 when Miller was convicted, the science has evolved and called into sharp doubt the theories behind shaken baby syndrome."
https://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2018/03/tonia-miller-michigan-major-assault-on.html
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. 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/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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