GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Legal teams from University of Michigan and Northwestern University have come together to try and get justice for a Battle Creek mother convicted of killing her 11-week-old daughter in 2001.
Now 34-years-old, Tonia Miller has spent her entire adult life in prison convicted by a Calhoun County jury of second-degree murder.
As things currently stand, she will be there until at least April 9, 2023. But the legal teams at two Big Ten universities believe that Miller did not shake her newborn child to death.
David Moran is a founder of the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, which has worked to exonerate people wrongly convicted of crimes, a number they estimate to be around 1,500.
“Well, we looked into this case because it appeared to us to be a pure outdated ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ case,” Moran said Wednesday from his office at Michigan Law School.
Now, the clinic is filing an appeal in Calhoun County Circuit Court seeking relief from judgement for Miller who was convicted by a jury following expert testimony presented by both the defense and prosecution.
Full story: WOOD TV