#323 Maggie Freleng with Tasha Shelby

On May 30, 1997, Tasha Shelby found her two and half year old toddler having a seizure on his bedroom floor. Bryan was pronounced dead at the hospital the following day, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide. Tasha, a little person, was on bed rest at the time, after giving birth and undergoing multiple surgeries, and Little Bryan was more than half Tasha’s size, standing 3 feet tall and weighing 33 pounds. Tasha’s physical inability to have shaken Bryan to death did not stop the state, who prosecuted and convicted Tasha based on the junk science of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Maggie speaks to Tasha Shelby, Penny Warner, Tasha’s aunt, and Valena Beety, Tasha’s attorney.  

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https://www.change.org/p/free-wrongfully-imprisoned-tasha-shelby

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