A recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court could affect the conviction of a Texas man sitting on death row for shaking his 2-year-old daughter to death.

On Nov. 21, the state Supreme Court issued a 6-1 decision finding that expert testimony on the diagnosis of abusive head trauma, known as shaken baby syndrome, isn’t scientifically reliable to go before a jury in two separate cases.

Now, the lawyer of infamous death row inmate Robert Roberson is hoping the ruling will influence a Texas court to grant her client a new trial.

“Mr. Roberson is not asking a Texas court to resolve the raging contemporary debate about whether SBS/AHT (Shaken Baby Syndrome / Abusive Head Trauma) has any efficacy,” attorney Gretchen Sween wrote in a filing obtained by The Dallas Morning News .

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