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Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case

Retired detective in Palestine, Texas says a man he helped put on death row is innocent. Robert Roberson was accused of shaking his two-year-old daughter,...

I was the supervising detective, investigating and providing oversight in a case where Robert Roberson was accused of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death. As an investigator, I deferred to the expert knowledge of a pediatrician and medical examiner in Dallas and followed their lead in explaining what then seemed inexplicable. Now it is recognized that many naturally occurring diseases that cause oxygen deprivation, including pneumonia, as well as short falls with a head impact, can cause the same set of internal conditions that Nikki had.

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