Saturday, October 31, 2026

October 31:Diamond Keen. St. Louis, Missouri: Shaken Baby Syndrome: Major (Welcome) Development: Yet another 'groundbreaking' SBS case; As the official court release tells us: "In recorded police interviews played at trial this week, Keen repeatedly denied dropping or abusing Emerald and told police she did not know how he could have gotten hurt. Keen’s lawyers presented testimony from medical experts to challenge autopsy findings that Emerald's injuries were the result of shaking and to explain how research into medical conclusions "shaken baby syndrome" have changed in recent years."

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This important decision has just come to my attention. I will be keeping an eye out for further reports. Harold Levy: ...

October 31: Scott Watson: New Zealand: From our 'Defending the Indefensible?' department. Prosecutors attempting to justify flawed police 'identification' practices have have met with severe challenges from justices presiding over his appeal, which is confined to the central identification issue, as the appeal draws to a close, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Senior reporter Ellen O'Dwyer reports, noting that: "The justices questioned Baker on Watson's lawyers' argument that police pressured Wallace to identify Watson in an interview in early January, 1998. "It was inappropriate wasn't it?" Justice Joe Williams asked. "I've never in all the trials I did read an interview like that," Williams said."

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BACKGROUND: I often check out Martyn Bradbury's Blog ' The Daily Blog' - when reporting a New Zealand case, as his posts are int...
Friday, October 30, 2026

October 30: Father of Elijah Clay: Solano County; California: Shaken Baby Syndrome: Pathologist Versus pathologist: As David Greenwald reports in the Davis Vanguard: Conflicting medical opinions about the death of an 11-week-old infant proceeded during an Oct. 23 preliminary hearing in Solano County Superior Court, where a prosecution specialist maintained that the child’s injuries demonstrated abusive head trauma while a defense forensic pathologist testified that the evidence did not support that diagnosis." (A case we are now following on this Blog); Read on!

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PASSAGE ONE  OF THE DAY:  " Dr. Julia Magaña, a pediatric emergency medicine and child abuse specialist, testified for the prosecution ...