PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Kudos to the scientists around the world who set aside the privacy of their laboratories to plunge into the very public, often emotional, confrontational judicial process and defend both their science and people whose convictions, they believe, are seriously in doubt. Kathleen Folbigg, in Australia, and Lucy Letby, in the U.K. are cases in point; They remind me that judicial processes developed centuries ago can prove utterly inadequate when it comes to adjudicating issues involving science. They also remind me that Robert Roberson sits on Texas because of 'shaken baby syndrome' junk science. If only America's scientific community could make it clear to the world - as did the scientists who spoke out in the Folbigg and Letby cases - that they will not sit back in their privacy of their laboratories, while a innocent person might be executed because the state got 'science' terribly wrong. Hopefully, there is still time.
Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
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KATHLEEN FOLBIGG: (HL): Convicted in 2003 of murdering her four infant children and sentenced to 40 years. Hated; Reviled; Feared; Her country's most notorious female killer - until extraordinary scientific and medical researchers established in their laboratories that her daughters may indeed have died of natural causes and a group of ninety eminent Australia scientists and medical professionals petitioned the New South Wales Governor to pardon her. As the Wikipedia entry informs us: "Scientific and medical research suggesting the daughters might indeed have died of natural causes was rejected by a judicial inquiry in 2019. Subsequent research published in 2020 led ninety eminent Australian scientists and medical professionals, in March 2021, to petition the NSW Governor to pardon Folbigg. The petition succinctly demonstrated that all four deaths could be explained as the effects of very rare genetic factors. On 5 June 2023, Folbigg was unconditionally pardoned by NSW Governor Margaret Beazley and was released from prison.["
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Folbigg
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LUCY LETBY: U.K. (HL): Found guilty in 2023 of murdering seven babies at the hospital where she worked and attempting to murder seven others. A distinguished panel of disinterested neonatal and paediatric experts, chaired by Dr Shoo Lee, examined the cases of 17 babies whom Letby was charged with murdering or harming at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England. Lee said the expert panel included “some of the most experienced and distinguished paediatric specialists in the world”, from the US, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Japan. Lee, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, said the 14 experts had found “so many problems with the medical care” of the babies and nothing to support the claim they were attacked. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” he told a press conference in Westminster." Dr. Lee has said that he became personally involved after his research was incorrectly used by a prosecution expert to suggest that Nurse Letby was guilty. It could take years before Nurse Letby is exonerated. However, thanks to these scientists, there is a realistic chance that justice will ultimately be done.
https://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2025/02/neonatal-nurse-lucy-letby-uk-major.html
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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.
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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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;
