Ex parte Desormeaux

OPINION

DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.

Tristón Dobbins, a twenty-one-month-old child, died as a result of “[b]lunt force trauma of head with closed head injury.” The autopsy report concluded the manner of death was homicide. The pathology findings included hemorrhaging of the brain, lacerations of the frontal lobes of the brain and the tonsils, and multiple contusions over the entire body. The report also stated that a “shaken baby with head impact may be of strong consideration.”

On the day of his death, Tristón had been in the care of his father, Leo Desor-meaux IV, and, for some of the time, his…