STORY: Texas Supreme Court opts to allow Roberson to testify Monday, CBS Austin (Reporter Jahmal Kennedy) reports.
GIST: "The Texas Supreme Court ruling late Sunday night said (sic) it will allow Texas Death Row inmate Robert Roberson to testify Monday just days after his execution was stayed.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton looked to get the Supreme Court to reverse its decision before Monday’s testimony, arguing that staying Roberson’s execution sets a bad precedent for the future.
“This is like a situation where we’ve had the people who’re involved with his case years ago with the prosecution saying now that they made mistakes,” said Rep. Donna Howard.
Howard spoke before the TSC’s ruling, calling Roberson’s circumstances monumental.
“There’s no reason that we should not be reviewing this and so I’m really kind of stunned that it took this kind of extraordinary effort to make that happen but again I am eternally grateful to my colleagues,” she said.
A bipartisan effort from Texas Democrats and Republicans pushed the court to hold the execution for now, citing faulty evidence.
Roberson is on death row for the death of his 2-year-old daughter back in 2002, citing shaken baby syndrome. If executed, he would be the first person in the country to be executed for a crime tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome."
The entire story can be read at:
"https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/texas-supreme-court-opts-to-allow-roberson-to-testify-monday
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. 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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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
