BULLETIN: "Court dates set for Robert Roberson following stay of execution," by Reporters Meredith Billings and Katie Parker, published on December 12, 2025.
SUB-HEADING: "A district judge has determined a June hearing to consider evidence in the Robert Roberson case."
GIST: "A district judge has determined a June hearing to consider evidence in the Robert Roberson case. Roberson, of Palestine, was convicted in 2003 for the 2002 murder of his daughter Nikki. The Texas Supreme Court paused Roberson’s execution in October of this year, days before he was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome. This was the third execution date that Roberson’s lawyers have been able to stay since 2016. Robert Roberson’s defense and the state agreed to a potential evidentiary hearing regarding Roberson’s stay of execution during a Friday court meeting with Smith County Judge Reeve Jackson over Zoom. A status hearing is set for Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. to review material the state files before an evidentiary hearing that is tentatively scheduled for the week of June 15. The latest stay was granted based on Texas’ 2013 junk science law, which allows a person convicted of a crime to seek relief if the evidence used against them is no longer credible. The appeals court then sent Roberson’s case back to his trial court in East Texas for review."
The entire bulletin can be read at:
https://www.kltv.com/2025/12/12/court-dates-set-robert-roberson-following-stay-execution/
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
———————————————————————————————
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;
—————————————————————————————————
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;
-------------------------------------------------------------------
