A Georgia man who spent 24 years behind bars for his infant son’s death walked out of prison after a judge granted him bond as he awaits a new trial. A

Danyel Smith’s conviction was vacated last month after new medical evidence showed his infant son may have died of natural causes.

As Robert Roberson bids for an evidentiary hearing in Texas, his attorneys have notified the court of a ruling in another shaken baby syndrome case they say bears striking similarities.

A Georgia judge ordered a new trial for Danyel Smith, who was convicted of a crime that may have never occurred.

It is more important than ever for states to adopt evidence-based standards to ensure that only credible and vetted information is given to juries.

In 2023, Gwinnett prosecutors offered Danyel Smith the chance to walk out of prison if he admitted killing his son. He rejected the offer.

A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

Danyel Smith has been in prison for more than 20 years following 2003 conviction in the death of his two-month-old son.

22-year-old, Pamela Smart, convicted of orchestrating her husband’s murder after her teen lover carried out the killing, is now seeking to overturn her conviction, taking responsibility for her role w...

Criminal prosecutors can’t build murder cases on medical diagnoses that the mere shaking of a baby, without further evidence of trauma, resulted in a child’s death, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled ...

A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

Danyel Smith has maintained his innocence since his 2003 conviction.

A growing body of data shows how outdated forensic methods and unreliable expert testimony distort justice.

Research by a psychology professor from Towson University shed new light on how the work of medical examiners suffers from bias.

House lawmakers grappled Wednesday to find a path forward on a report that dozens of police-custody deaths previously ruled accidental or of unknown causes by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ...

A jury convicted Danyel Smith of murdering his child more than 20 years ago. He’s asking for a new trial focused on medical advances.

The Hawthorne effect refers to the tendency of individuals to behave differently when they know they are being studied. In the forensic science domain, concerns have been raised about the “strategic ....

U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park.

Danyel Smith was convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago. He’s maintained his innocence since.

Confessing to a crime you didn’t commit seems unthinkable, but growing research and real-life examples show it does happen.

A Texas man is awaiting execution for shaking his child to death. But even the detective on the case now thinks he’s innocent.

It comes after 11Alive Chief Investigator Rebecca Lindstrom's "Help That Harms" series.

Marando Warthen won an official apology and $3 million in compensation from the state of Maryland on Wednesday, after serving decades in prison for wrongful murder convictions in 1984.

Three forensic examiners at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory last year mistakenly concluded that cartridge cases from a crime scene matched a specific firearm. The error exposes systemic flaws ...

Ellen Greenberg was found dead in 2011 in her Philadelphia apartment with a knife in her chest. Despite contradictory evidence, her death was ruled a suicide. Years later, her parents are still fighti...

Danyel Smith was convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago. He’s maintained his innocence since.

Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.

Exonerations and new science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny whi...

Police in the United States rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after the use of force such as physical blows, restraints or Tasers

A civil lawsuit filed against the Town of Milford by a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder goes to trial next summer.

The judge who issued a death warrant for Robert Roberson voluntarily recused herself, adding the latest legal complication to a case that has drawn national scrutiny.

Danyel Smith claims he did not kill his infant son and says scientific advances will show that. Medical experts connected the death to seizures and a premature birth.