Overview

• The stay halts Roberson’s Oct. 16 execution but does not vacate his 2003 capital murder conviction, with the case remanded to Anderson County for fact‑finding under the junk science statute.
• Judges cited last year’s overturned Dallas shaken‑baby conviction as legal guidance, and separate opinions highlighted tensions between finality and evolving scientific understanding.
• Roberson’s attorneys say new medical analyses show Nikki Curtis died from chronic pneumonia, sepsis and medication effects, while Attorney General Ken Paxton and some experts maintain it was child abuse.
• Roberson would have been the first person in the U.S. executed in a case tied to a shaken‑baby diagnosis, and his case has drawn bipartisan support, novelist John Grisham, and the retired lead detective.
• The trial court will now assess the claims and evidence, the attorney general’s office may challenge the ruling, and no timetable for the new proceedings has been set.