Comment by rossant

Yes, Innocence Project cofounder Barry Scheck was the defense attorney in the Woodward case and he wrote a long foreword to our book about it. It starts like this:

"After a Quarter of a Century, Have Any Lessons Been Learned from the Trial of Louise Woodward?

Twenty-five years ago, the Louise Woodward trial in Boston (the ‘nanny murder case’) thrust shaken baby syndrome (SBS) into headlines across the globe, raising worldwide consciousness about the hypothesis that infants and toddlers could be seriously brain injured, even killed, by violent shaking. Although the case was tried in the early days of SBS prosecutions, the underlying science was fiercely disputed and litigated at trial. A quarter of a century later, although science has advanced, the issues remain just as hotly disputed and poorly understood, and yet parents and caregivers continue to be prosecuted and families torn apart based on the hypothesis."