The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.”

The New Jersey Supreme Court wrestled with whether it should be the first state high court to bar trial evidence from doctors that parents killed or injured their children through shaking, the latest in renewed national skepticism over “shaken baby syndrome” convictions.

The state’s highest criminal appeals court has vacated the conviction of a Dallas County man accused of injuring a child, arguing scientific

However, late Thursday, the state’s highest court blocked the killing of Roberson - an autistic father at the center of a controversial “shaken baby syndrome” case. Three of the court’s judges said the case brought up a significant question on the separation of powers on which there is no clear precedent.

A Texas appeals court has reversed a judge’s order to delay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a man who would become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a d

Robert Roberson to be executed today, despite critics' doubts over the potentially flawed 'shaken baby syndrome' diagnosis.

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection