On May 5, 1999, Brandy Briggs Lemons checked on her two-month-old son, Daniel, and found him blue and barely breathing. She called 911 and started CPR in an attempt to save her child's life. Once paramedics had rushed the child to the hospital, the doctors there intubated the infant. Unfortunately, after being transferred, Daniel died on May 9 in Texas Children's Hospital. An autopsy was performed on the baby and the medical examiner at the time found the cause of death to be brain trauma with complications, which was a tell-tale sign of "Shaken Baby Syndrome." With this belief, Brandy Briggs was arrested and charged with first-degree felony injury to a child. Briggs plead guilty to child endangerment after advice from her attorney on the belief
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Luis Sanchez examines Dr. Moore's work and finds no signs of "shaken baby syndrome", but rather finds evidence of a urinary tract infection, changing the cause of death to natural causes. Along with this, Dr. Sanchez finds that not only did Daniel suffer from complications from his urinary tract infection, but when he was taken to LBJ hospital, the doctors and nurses did not intubate him properly. Rather than putting the tube into his lung, the tube ended up in his stomach, which causes him to become deprived of oxygen in his body. These two findings are then changed to the actual cause of death of Ms. Brigg's young son. However, despite these new findings, it is still not till 2005 when Brandy Briggs gets the chance to prove her …show more content…
who worked her case in trying to get it appealed. Portz worked hard and in 2004 got it looked at and reviewed for appeal, but this first appeal was denied. Brandy explained to me that for a while she lost hope and faith in the criminal justice system. However, she said that she tried to keep a positive outlook and motivation to keep hope that the wrong that was done to her would be corrected. It was not until 2005, another year later after the denial of the first appeal, that Charles Portz got Ms. Briggs case accepted and approved on appeal. Brandy Briggs finally had her new day in court to fight to get her life back. After hearing about the accepted appeal, Brandy felt joy and excitement that she finally got a second chance to prove her innocence.
Using Dr. Sanchez's findings from his review of Dr. Moore's autopsy that showed no evidence of ‘shaken baby syndrome", which is what got Brandy convicted in the first place, Portz exposed the lack of real and actual evidence of Ms. Briggs's guilt. Finally, after about a year from the acceptance of the appeal, Ms. Briggs was exonerated and released from prison filled will nervousness as she "has not been back on the outside for years" and she did not know want to expect from her life after all that she has been
Luis Sanchez examines Dr. Moore's work and finds no signs of "shaken baby syndrome", but rather finds evidence of a urinary tract infection, changing the cause of death to natural causes. Along with this, Dr. Sanchez finds that not only did Daniel suffer from complications from his urinary tract infection, but when he was taken to LBJ hospital, the doctors and nurses did not intubate him properly. Rather than putting the tube into his lung, the tube ended up in his stomach, which causes him to become deprived of oxygen in his body. These two findings are then changed to the actual cause of death of Ms. Brigg's young son. However, despite these new findings, it is still not till 2005 when Brandy Briggs gets the chance to prove her …show more content…
who worked her case in trying to get it appealed. Portz worked hard and in 2004 got it looked at and reviewed for appeal, but this first appeal was denied. Brandy explained to me that for a while she lost hope and faith in the criminal justice system. However, she said that she tried to keep a positive outlook and motivation to keep hope that the wrong that was done to her would be corrected. It was not until 2005, another year later after the denial of the first appeal, that Charles Portz got Ms. Briggs case accepted and approved on appeal. Brandy Briggs finally had her new day in court to fight to get her life back. After hearing about the accepted appeal, Brandy felt joy and excitement that she finally got a second chance to prove her innocence.
Using Dr. Sanchez's findings from his review of Dr. Moore's autopsy that showed no evidence of ‘shaken baby syndrome", which is what got Brandy convicted in the first place, Portz exposed the lack of real and actual evidence of Ms. Briggs's guilt. Finally, after about a year from the acceptance of the appeal, Ms. Briggs was exonerated and released from prison filled will nervousness as she "has not been back on the outside for years" and she did not know want to expect from her life after all that she has been