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TYLER \u2013 One family member of Nikki Curtis spoke with our news partner KETK\u2019s Ashlyn Anderson on Thursday about why he is frustrated with Robert Roberson\u2019s third stay of execution.<\/p>\nTYLER \u2013 One family member of Nikki Curtis spoke with our news partner KETK\u2019s Ashlyn Anderson on Thursday about why he is frustrated with Robert Roberson\u2019s third stay of execution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my life every single day since I was five years old. Basically it\u2019s been a repeat, repeat and repeat. My family has not been able to rest,\u201d Nikki Curtis\u2019 brother Matthew Bowman said.<\/p>\n
Death row inmate, Robert Roberson received a last-minute stay of execution last week for the 2002 death of Nikki. His legal team said his conviction was based on junk science like Shaken Baby Syndrome, but Bowman disagrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey haven\u2019t showed any new evidence at all, it\u2019s still the same stuff that we\u2019re reviewing since 2016. It\u2019s still blunt force trauma. It\u2019s not shaken baby like everybody says. The autopsy makes that very clear,\u201d Bowman said. Roberson\u2019s attorney, Gretchen Sween said there is no evidence that Nikki was beaten to death. She added that those accusations are proven false by medical records and blood work. His team is pushing for a new trial.<\/p>\n
The case has been brought back to a district court in Anderson County. If a new trial is granted, Bowman wants Roberson\u2019s past brought back up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re worried about how he\u2019s acting now. He wasn\u2019t acting this way back then. He had friends. He had drug buddies,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cHe was robbing people. He was doing stuff to his wife where he beat her one time. There are records of that. There\u2019s just a lot that I don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he was flipping through photos and funny memories of Nikki, Bowman said one photo of Nikki and Robert doesn\u2019t display the truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, my grandparents forced her to sit in his lap that day? So let\u2019s talk about forced pictures. Pictures aren\u2019t worth a million words. You know, sometimes all that stuff y\u2019all show has been forced. My sister never wanted to get in that car that day either, but my grandparents were sick and thought he was supposed to be a awesome dad. For some reason she was always scared of him and now we know,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n
Roberson\u2019s legal team will try and prove his conviction was based off the Shaken Baby Syndrome hypothesis as his legal case continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2013 One family member of Nikki Curtis spoke with our news partner KETK\u2019s Ashlyn Anderson on Thursday about why he is frustrated with Robert Roberson\u2019s third stay of execution. \u201cThis is my life every single day since I was five years old. Basically it\u2019s been a repeat, repeat and repeat. My family has not … Continue reading Curtis\u2019 brother speaks out against Roberson\u2019s stay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1450775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-17_031602-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 18:53:36","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\/2025\/10\/2025-10-17_031602-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449907","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449907"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451089,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449907\/revisions\/1451089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}