Garden City acquittal

Lucille Douglass won an acquittal in State v. Lopez, a seven-day Finney County agg battery trial. Here is the Garden City Telegram article reporting on the acquittal. Apparently the doctors knee-jerked to a shaken-baby diagnosis, but after effective cross-examination by Lucille, the doctors had lost credibility before the jury. In fact, Lucille reported that the jury was appalled that the doctors concluded that "absent a witnessed traumatic event, we consider these symptoms diagnostic for abuse," and by the fact that the medical professionals misrepresented the medical history provided.

Another in a line of cases showing that a lot of"shaken baby" diagnoses can be mis-diagnoses.