With one week left prior to Robert Roberson is to be performed by the state of Texas, his lawyer, Gretchen Sween, notified the Texas Court of Offender Appeals on Tuesday that brand-new proof highly recommends the court that commanded Roberson’s 2003 test was prejudiced versus him. Sween suggests that the proof calls for the state to retry her customer.
” It is currently undeniable that Robert’s instance was contaminated by outright judicial transgression from the beginning,” Sween informed press reporters. “It’s surprising that we are finding the fact regarding this glaring, concealed proof of prejudice just by coincidence, from a podcast, days prior to Robert is arranged to be performed for a disaster that has actually been mislabeled as a criminal offense.”
Roberson was founded guilty in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old child, Nikki, on the basis of the debatable clinical concept referred to as trembled child disorder. In 2002, he brought his subconscious child to the Palestine emergency clinic, where medical professionals reactivated her heart and sent her to a medical facility in Dallas. Roberson informed the Palestine authorities that he had actually woken up to locate Nikki subconscious. They took him right into custodianship, dubious that he had actually defeated her. Nikki was removed life assistance in Dallas and passed away. Roberson was billed with murder.
Sween has actually long said that the Dallas medical professionals eliminated Nikki from life assistance without Roberson’s approval, which went against state regulation due to the fact that he was her single handling conservator. In August, she discovered of a conference in between Republican politician State Rep. Lacey Hull, that sustains a brand-new test for Roberson, and an agent of the health center where Nikki passed away. Because conference, the health center agent informed Hull that medical professionals did not take Nikki off life assistance up until they obtained verification from an unknown Anderson Region authorities that her mother’s grandparents– that are supporting for Roberson’s implementation– had the authority to eliminate her from life assistance.
According to a Notification of New Proof submitted by Sween with the TCCA, Nikki’s concerned grandpa, Larry Bowman, exposed on an NBC Dateline podcast launched today that the unknown Anderson Region authorities that permitted Nikki to be removed life assistance was Region Court Bascom Bentley– the male that later on commanded Roberson’s test.
” That the Anderson Region court that commanded Robert’s test never ever revealed that he is the one that accredited preventing Robert’s adult legal rights and breaking Texas regulation to make sure that Nikki’s elimination from life assistance might be quickened– and afterwards her daddy billed with resources murder– is extremely troubling,” Sween claimed. “Courts ought to not remain in business of assuming sense of guilt, bypassing the regulation, breaking a male’s legal rights, and afterwards hiding all of it. This sort of dispute ought to have been revealed and caused the court’s recusal.”
Sween has actually been feverishly functioning to conserve Roberson for the last numerous months, equally as she performed in October of 2024, throughout a previous effort by the state to implement him. Then, Republicans and Democrats in the Texas Legislature summoned Roberson to show up at the Capitol to talk about the instance, hindering the implementation. Sween has actually identified the bipartisan subpoena as a wonder. By following week, we’ll understand if this brand-new discovery comprises a 2nd wonder.
This write-up shows up in October 10 • 2025.
