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Shaken baby diagnosis from biased medical examiner unsubstantiated, new autopsy says

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This blog focuses frequently on the subject of dubious forensics like that used in many older arson cases and so-called "scent lineups" performed by dogs. The Houston Chronicle this week published a story on another branch of questionable forensic science: The diagnosis by medical examiners of so called "shaken-baby syndrome," which has resulted in several recent exonerations in Harris County after former associate medical examiner Patricia Moore's work on the subject was discredited. ("New results of autopsy spur plea," Jan. 14)Most recently, Harris County was compelled to change the autopsy results by the same medical examiner in an 11-year old case after concluding there was no basis for a shaken-baby finding. Reported the Chron:The original autopsy classified the baby's death as a homicide and was used by prosecutors as a key piece of evidence against Cynthia Cash, now 53, a former nurse convicted of fatal injury to a child after 4-month-old Abbey Clements died after being rushed to the hospital from Cash's home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).