ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Judge Austin Reeve Jackson is reviewing competing legal filings in the case of a Palestine man convicted of killing his infant daughter, including arguments over whether new evidence should be admitted.

Robert Roberson, of Palestine, was convicted in 2003 of the 2002 murder of his daughter, Nikki.

In October 2025, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals paused Roberson's execution just days before he was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a conviction tied to "shaken baby syndrome."Robert Roberson at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023.