Experts debate shaken baby findings
The common wisdom in "shaken-baby'' cases was that the last person with the child before symptoms appeared was the guilty party. A Wisconsin jury convicted babysitter Audrey Edmunds, a mother of three young girls, of first-degree reckless homicide and sentenced her to 18 years in prison. In the decade since her conviction, Edmunds' lawyers say, many experts have studied the physics and biomechanics of shaken-baby syndrome and have concluded that shaking alone could not have produced the baby Natalie's injuries without leaving other evidence of abuse. Among those now questioning the diagnosis is Dr. Robert Huntington, the forensic pathologist whose testimony helped put Edmunds away. If the trial were held today, Huntington said recently, "I'd say she died of a head injury, and I don't know when it happened . . . There's room for reasonable doubt.''
