Reversing Shaken Baby Syndrome by Health Central

'It has now been showed as junk science,' Waide told the court. in identifying traumatic shaking (very low-quality evidence).' The researchers also concluded that 'limited scientific evidence' supported the belief that shaking actually caused the symptoms used to identify victims of shaken baby syndrome. Part of Waide's argument focused on a 2017 Swedish study that found 'there is insufficient scientific evidence on which to assess the diagnostic accuracy. Prosecutors believed these injuries to be evidence that she was a victim of shaken baby syndrome.īut Jim Waide, Clark's attorney, argued in his appeal in late 2018 that new strides in medical science had demonstrated that shaken baby syndrome was not a real condition. Physicians of the Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, also found injuries to Kyllie's brain, eyes, ribs and collar bones. Lakin said she believed Kyllie had suffered a fatal brain injury after being shaken violently.

Karen Lakin testified as a medical expert for state prosecutors. 'The Case Against Adnan Syed' Presents New DNA Evidenceĭuring Clark's second trial in September 2016, Dr.Parents Call on Congress After Marine Convicted of Abusing Girl To Go Free.

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The new evidence presented in Clark's appeal centered on the argument that the medical diagnosis used to convict him, shaken baby syndrome, has been discredited. The ruling will return the case to circuit court for a new trial. However, a panel of Mississippi Court of Appeals judges voted 7-3 to reverse Clark's conviction in a split decision released Tuesday. In 2016 a new trial reduced his sentence to 40 years. Clark was initially sentenced to life in prison for his daughter's murder in 2010. The child's mother returned home to find her 'limp and lifeless,' the Daily Journal reported. Kyllie's death occurred after she and three other small children, including her twin brother, were left alone with Clark for several hours on January 5, 2008. The man, Joshua Clark of Itawamba County, Mississippi, was convicted of murder in the second degree over the death of his four-month old daughter, Kyllie, who died in 2008. A man convicted of the second-degree murder of his infant daughter will get a new day in court after appeals court judges agreed on October 29 that new research casts doubt on the belief that the medical condition used to convict him exists, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journalreported.

Reversing Shaken Baby Syndrome by Health Central