Favorable Judgment
No Prosecution & Child Returned to Mother
Favorable decision to not criminally prosecute and simultaneously favorable judgment ordering the return of a child to its mother (and father) despite facing an intentional child abuse charge, county allegations of fear the child would be killed, and medical records purportedly illustrating a subdural hemorrhage, four fractured ribs, and substantial facial injuries to the six-month-old child, all while under the care of the mother. Despite no expert testifying on mother’s behalf (with the expert she tried to retain concluding it was, in fact, intentional child abuse), mother prevailed on the strength of a devastating cross-examination of the government’s medical child abuse expert. It was later told (though unverified) that no lawyer had won against this type of charge in over a decade, and it was also later learned (and verified) that the county employing the above-mentioned medical expert requested transcripts of the cross-examination to re-evaluate the defects and poor performance by their medical expert.
