{"id":1193967,"date":"2023-01-13T13:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1193967"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:08:51","slug":"death-row-inmates-lawyer-responds-after-new-trial-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1193967","title":{"rendered":"Death row inmate&#8217;s lawyer responds after new trial denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/rr-175x97.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"97\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1193251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/rr-175x97.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/rr.png 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>PALESTINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Death row inmate Robert Roberson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s troubled by a recent ruling in his case, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not giving up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is much more fighting left to do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gretchen Sween. After years of courtroom scrutiny over the now-questionable science of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shaken baby syndrome,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided Wednesday that doubt surrounding the cause of his daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death was not enough to overturn Roberson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death sentence. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK and the Texas Tribune. <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Roberson, 56, of Palestine, was convicted of killing his sickly two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, after he rushed her blue, limp body to the emergency room in 2002. He said that the two were sleeping in their Palestine home when he awoke to find Nikki unresponsive, having fallen off the bed. But doctors and nurses quickly suspected child abuse, disbelieving that such a short fall could have caused the fatal injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, doctors testified at trial that Nikki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s injuries were consistent with shaken baby syndrome, where an infant is killed from being violently shaken back and forth, and jurors found him guilty of capital murder. In 2016, he was set for execution. But the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped his death, sending the case back to the trial court for further review after the scientific consensus on shaken baby syndrome shifted. The appeal process has continued since then, but Roberson can now be scheduled for a new execution date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Death row inmate Robert Roberson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s troubled by a recent ruling in his case, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not giving up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is much more fighting left to do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gretchen Sween. After years of courtroom scrutiny over the now-questionable science of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shaken baby syndrome,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided Wednesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1193967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death row inmate&#8217;s lawyer responds after new trial denied<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1193977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/rr-175x97.png","fifu_image_alt":"Death row inmate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyer responds after new trial denied","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 23:19:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/rr-175x97.png","fifu_image_alt":"Death row inmate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyer responds after new trial denied","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193975,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193967\/revisions\/1193975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}