New evidence supporting Robert Roberson’s innocence
Robert Roberson has asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to grant relief based on significant new evidence supporting his innocence.
The new evidence supporting Mr Roberson’s innocence includes new medical and scientific evidence that shows that his daughter had a blood-clotting disorder, namely, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation brought on by an advanced infection, which doctors had missed.
The application to the Court of Criminal Appeals refers to, and includes, but is not limited to the following evidence:
new legal and scientific developments that undermine the invalid '“shaken baby syndrome” hypothesis which was used to arrest, convict and sentence Mr Roberson to death;
the affidavit of Dr Michael Laposata, a pathologist specialising in bleeding disorders and corroborating and expanding upon the expert assessments concluding that the death of Mr Roberson’s daughter, Nikki, was not a homicide. Dr Laposata referred to other opinions that are consistent with his own;
the joint statement of 10 independent pathologists attesting to the unreliability of the cause and manner of conclusions reached by the medical examiner who performed Nikki’s autopsy in 2002; and
extensive testimony before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence in October and December 2024 addressing concerns that the CCA has not applied Texas’s changed-science law, Article 11.073, as the Legislature intended either generally or specifically in Roberson’s case.
You can read the full article which reports the above here.