The Michigan Supreme Court decided the trial court wrongly held that expert testimony on shaken baby syndrome (SBS) was inadmissible under the rules of evidence and, as a result, the defendant is entitled to a new trial.

A defendant’s first-degree child abuse conviction must be vacated because defense counsel’s performance at trial was “deficient”.

A prosecutor’s “grossly improper” remarks during closing argument in a child abuse case, constituted deliberate prosecutorial misconduct and “poisoned the proceedings”.