PALESTINE, Texas — The attorney for East Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has faced execution multiple times but maintained his innocence, hopes a recent ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court could help him get a new trial.

Roberson has been on death row since his 2003 capital murder conviction in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in Anderson County.

On Monday, his lawyer, Gretchen Sween, filed a notice asking the court to consider a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that found the Shaken Baby Syndrome hypothesis is “no longer admissible” in that state's courts because of a lack of legitimate biomechanics science.

That decision out of New Jersey was a 6–1 vote.

Since being on death row, Roberson has appealed his case to courts due to junk science, s

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