Cracked ribs and blunt trauma to the head does not sound accidental.
I think the jury did the right thing here.
Man draws 60-year prison term in daughter's death
By Craig Kapitan - San Antonio Express-News
A San Antonio man described by prosecutors as a violent “time bomb” was sentenced to 60 years in prison Wednesday for beating his infant daughter to death.
Jerry Christopher Crisp, 25, will have to serve at least half the sentence for the murder conviction before he is eligible for parole. It took the jury six hours to reach the punishment decision late Wednesday night.
Crisp was arrested and charged with capital murder after an autopsy of his 10-week-old daughter, Jayden, revealed cracked ribs and dozens of bruises. The infant died on April 25, 2005, of blunt force trauma to the head, the county medical examiner ruled.
During the trial — and in a 2008 trial that ended with a hung jury — Crisp's attorney contended that the child died as a result of falling off a changing table. An independent pathologist testified that the baby's brain injuries could have been the result of a low-impact fall.
