Expert’s Shaken-Baby Syndrome Opinion Splits Mississippi Appeals Court

(November 6, 2019, 8:37 AM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A divided Mississippi Court of Appeals on Oct. 29 reversed a man’s conviction for killing his infant daughter after finding that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting the opinion of the prosecution’s medical expert that the baby’s death was caused by shaken-baby syndrome (SBS) (Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Mississippi, No. 2017-KA-00411-COA, Miss. App., 2019 Miss. App. LEXIS 529)....

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