Robert Roberson: Death Row; Texas: Bulletin: Important step: His attorneys have gone to court to block Attorney General Ken Paxton from scheduling an execution date for this innocent victim of shaken baby syndrome junk science who was wrongfully convicted of causing the tragic 2002 death of his chronically ill toddler daughter, Nikki, The Innocence Project reports. Attorney Gretchen Sween: “Robert Roberson is innocent. Yet Attorney General Paxton, whose office just recently took over the State’s representation, is trying to execute him even though Robert has presented powerful new evidence of his innocence to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The AG’s unjustified rush to seek an execution date while that new evidence of innocence is before the court is outrageous."

PASSAGE  ONE OF THE DAY: "Robert’s attorneys have amassed overwhelming innocence evidence—including more unrebutted evidence since last fall—proving that Robert’s daughter died because of illness, medical error, and accident, none of which was Robert’s fault. Robert was almost wrongfully executed last year. But for the courageous intervention of Texas lawmakers from both parties the worst possible injustice would have been an irrevocable stain on Texas."

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PASSAGE TWO OF THE DAY: "New information continues to come to light proving Robert’s innocence and we are grateful that his habeas application with that new evidence is currently being considered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. There is no justification for the Attorney General’s relentless effort to kill an innocent human being—and no state law or moral law that authorizes seeking an execution date under these circumstances.”

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POST: "Robert Roberson’s Attorneys File Objection to Texas AG’s Request for Execution Date in Innocence Case,"  by Innocent Project staff, published on June 17, 2025.

SUB-HEADING: "Mr. Roberson’s legal team has filed an objection to the attorney general’s request to schedule an execution date, asserting numerous reasons why no execution should be scheduled.

GIST: "Yesterday, Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Anderson County District Court to schedule an execution date for Robert Roberson, an innocent man who was wrongfully convicted of causing the tragic 2002 death of his chronically ill toddler daughter, Nikki.

Today, Mr. Roberson’s legal team filed an objection to the attorney general’s request asserting numerous reasons why no execution should be scheduled. Mr. Roberson’s application for habeas corpus relief, which presents a wealth of new evidence supporting his actual innocence, is presently pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

The Objection to Request for Execution Date and Motion to be Heard can be accessed here.

Below is a statement from Gretchen Sween, one of Mr. Roberson’s attorneys:

“Robert Roberson is innocent. Yet Attorney General Paxton, whose office just recently took over the State’s representation, is trying to execute him even though Robert has presented powerful new evidence of his innocence to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The AG’s unjustified rush to seek an execution date while that new evidence of innocence is before the court is outrageous.

Robert’s attorneys have amassed overwhelming innocence evidence—including more unrebutted evidence since last fall—proving that Robert’s daughter died because of illness, medical error, and accident, none of which was Robert’s fault. Robert was almost wrongfully executed last year. But for the courageous intervention of Texas lawmakers from both parties the worst possible injustice would have been an irrevocable stain on Texas.

New information continues to come to light proving Robert’s innocence and we are grateful that his habeas application with that new evidence is currently being considered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. There is no justification for the Attorney General’s relentless effort to kill an innocent human being—and no state law or moral law that authorizes seeking an execution date under these circumstances.”

More information about Mr. Roberson’s case can be found here and here.

For more information or to speak with an attorney for Mr. Roberson, please contact: Laura.Burstein@squirepb.com.

The entire post can be read at: 

https://innocenceproject.org/news/robert-robersons-attorneys-file-objection-to-texas-ags-request-for-execution-date-in-innocence-case/

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;

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