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Criminal

Oct. 17, 2015

Court to mull reliability of Shaken Baby diagnoses

A prisoner cites the medical community’s about-face on Shaken Baby Syndrome in seeking habeas relief.

By Matthew Hamity
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A San Diego attorney is hoping that changes in doctors' opinions of Shaken Baby Syndrome diagnoses will help persuade a federal appeals court to find that a man, imprisoned since 1991 for the murder of his infant daughter, was convicted based on false evidence.

Sole practitioner George Schraer, who reprsents Alan Gimenez, believes a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in his client's fav...

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