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Gina Nicole Bailey: California; Times Herald; Shaken Baby Syndrome case; Bulletin: Trial date set for February 22.. Bailey is suspected of dropping the child, then shaking him — ultimately leading to his death. Because of her alleged involvement, the woman is facing murder and child neglect charges....According to previous court testimony, Bailey and her husband attended a dinner party on the night of the incident at a friend’s home on Travis Air Force Base with the young victim and two other children. One of the hosts of the party, Lynne Taaffe, who testified in a hearing in December, recalled Thor being “fussy” that night but did not notice any unusual behavior from Bailey. Court proceedings during the last year revealed Bailey admitted to police after her arrest that she shook the child after becoming frustrated. The host of the dinner party, however, testified that after Thor’s death, she and Bailey speculated whether the child had been sick with pneumonia. Taaffe emphasized to the court that Bailey appeared “heartbroken” over the child’s death. Bailey’s attorney, Hanlon, is not new to fighting shaken baby cases in a court of law. Hanlon, who is based in San Francisco, was the attorney for a Bay Area father who was wrongly accused in 2010 of shaking his 3-month-old child to death. After a court battle that lasted more than two years, the charges against the father of the baby, Kristian Aspelin, were dismissed by San Francisco prosecutors. Bailey remains in Solano County Jail with bail set at $750,000."...Reporter Kayla Galloway: The Times Herald; Reporter. January 17, 2017.

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Previous: Guilty Plea Series: (Part 10); Texas panel on wrongful convictions calls for ending use of unverified drug field tests, Propublica reports..."ProPublica spent 2016 examining the widespread use of field tests by police departments and prosecutors across the country. No government agency regulates their use. The patrol officers who perform the tests to make arrests on the street often have little or no training in the use of the tool. Most of the nation’s crime laboratories do not check officers’ field tests when defendants plead guilty. Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them? Read the story. Police and prosecutors began relying upon the tests’ results decades ago, and they were seen as a cheap but efficient way of establishing probable cause for an arrest while not swamping already overworked crime labs. They were never designed to be used as evidence at trial, and indeed courts across the country have routinely barred them. But with the growing ubiquity of plea bargains, the tests have in many instances effectively served as evidence used against suspects to win convictions."
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"A Travis Air Force Base woman suspected in the shaking death of an 18-month-old toddler appeared briefly Tuesday in Solano County Superior Court in preparation for her trial set to begin next month.Gina Nicole Bailey, 25, was caring for the young victim, Thor Thompson, before he suffered a severe brain injury on the night of Dec. 17, 201. The defendant appeared Tuesday in court alongside her attorney, Stuart Hanlon, who discussed a motion filed with the court on his client’s behalf regarding discovery evidence. According to court records, the motion was filed Jan. 4. The defendant and attorneys are set to reappear in court Jan. 30 for a trial management conference — the final court date before the trial begins Feb. 22. According to previous court testimony, Bailey and her husband attended a dinner party on the night of the incident at a friend’s home on Travis Air Force Base with the young victim and two other children. One of the hosts of the party, Lynne Taaffe, who testified in a hearing in December, recalled Thor being “fussy” that night but did not notice any unusual behavior from Bailey. Court proceedings during the last year revealed Bailey admitted to police after her arrest that she shook the child after becoming frustrated. The host of the dinner party, however, testified that after Thor’s death, she and Bailey speculated whether the child had been sick with pneumonia. Taaffe emphasized to the court that Bailey appeared “heartbroken” over the child’s death. Bailey’s attorney, Hanlon, is not new to fighting shaken baby cases in a court of law. Hanlon, who is based in San Francisco, was the attorney for a Bay Area father who was wrongly accused in 2010 of shaking his 3-month-old child to death. After a court battle that lasted more than two years, the charges against the father of the baby, Kristian Aspelin, were dismissed by San Francisco prosecutor. Bailey remains in Solano County Jail with bail set at $750,000."   

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/general-news/20170117/suspect-in-shaken-baby-case-preps-for-february-trial


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