Sue Luttner is a technical writer and occasional journalist who found herself inside an astonishing medico-legal controversy, which she blogs about at On Shaken Baby.
Sue grew up in Lynwood, California, and earned a Communication/Journalism degree from Stanford University in 1975. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then a legal copy editor before joining the corporate communications team at Apple Computer, the first step in finding her true calling as a technical writer. She has recently retired from Google, where she was documenting internal engineering tools. You can see her work history on Linkedin.
Over several months in the mid 1990s, Sue heard the story unfold as a friend’s adult niece was accused and ultimately convicted of shaking an infant in her care. Sue started attending conferences and following up at the medical library, and she eventually reached an improbable conclusion: Child abuse physicians and prosecutors working with a flawed model of shaken baby syndrome are tearing apart innocent families and sending innocent parents and caretakers to prison in alarming numbers.
She was so staggered by the implications of her initial research that she has now spent 20 years educating herself, confirming her facts, and writing a book about it. You can read several chapters on line, starting with the prologue.
You can read her academic treatment of the subject, in either the objective voice she prefers or the edited version published in the journal Argument & Critique.
Sue has collaborated with the Innocence Network on resources for attorneys appealing infant head-injury cases, and she edits research papers in the arena. For an article she edited for biomechanics expert John Lloyd, Phd, please see Biomechanical Evaluation of Head Kinematics During Infant Shaking Versus Pediatric Activities of Daily Living.
Sue Luttner presenting on the history of the shaken baby syndrome literature, at the Evidence Based Medicine and Social Investigation conference in Vancouver, 2012. -photo by Heather Dragotta
Sue is now finishing an important, engaging, and meticulously researched book on the double tragedy of shaken baby syndrome. For the first third of the book outline and links to sample chapters, please see http://onsbs.com/chapters/. Sue believes that the subject matter demands the credibility of a third party and is therefore looking for an agent or publisher, although she is open to self publishing. If you can help, please be in touch.
Technical Writer Sue Luttner 
MY NAME IS JAMON MATTHEWS AND OUR LONG TIME FAMILY FRIEND JEFFERY BAKER WAS WRONGFULLY CONVICTED OF SBS IN BOISE IDAHO AFTER TWO TRIALS ON APRIL 22, 2013. I ATTENDED MUCH OF BOTH TRIALS AND AM SICK TO MY STOMACH AT OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IN IDAHO.
THE ADA COUNTY CORONER CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA WHICH CAUSED GRACELYNN BAKERS DEATH AT ONLY 11 WEEKS OLD. THE CORONER TESTIFIED THAT THIS WAS NOT A SHAKEN BABY CASE AS HER LOOKED FOR EVIDENCE AND FOUND NONE. THE BABYSITTER THAT JEFF HIRED ADMITTED TO POLICE ON A RECORDED DVD AND TESTIFIED SHE SAW A RAISED BUMP OR KNOT ON HER HEAD PRIOR TO BEING PICKED UP, THE DAY GRACELYNN COLLAPSED.
WHAT MAKES THIS AN OUTRAGE IS THAT AFTER THEIR OWN CORONER SAID IT WAS NOT SHAKEN BABY, THE JUDGE ALLOWED THE PROSECUTION TO SAY IT WAS. ANYBODY WHO CAN HELP EXPOSE THIS BIAS SYSTEM AND WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF OUR GOOD FRIEND, PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW. I HAVE DOCUMENTS WHICH BACK WHAT I’VE STATED.
AFTER MUCH THOUGHT, IF THIS CASE HAD SOME OUT OF STATE EXPOSURE, THE STATE WOULD HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY. JEFF IS A LOVING FATHER WHO LOST HIS DAUGHTER GRACELYNN AFTER BEING DROPPED BY A BABYSITTER ON ACCIDENT AND LATER COLLAPSED FROM A CVT (BLOOD CLOT TO THE BRAIN). I’M WILLING TO HELP JEFF AND HIS FAMILY ANYWAY POSSIBLE, I NEED GUIDENCE.
EVIDENCE SUPPORTING JEFF’S INNOCENCE:
1. ALL 4 PATHOLOGISTS WHO TESTIFIED FOUND CVT.
2.ADA COUNTY CORONER DELETED FINDINGS OF CVT FROM FINAL REPORT.
3. CHILD ABUSE DOCTOR FOR THE STATE TESTIFIED GRACELYNN HAD TORN BRAIN STEM, WHICH WAS A LIE.
4. BABYSITTER ADMITTED SHE ACCIDENTLY DROPPED GRACELYNN, 11 WEEKS OLD INTO A DEEP SINK, WHICH IS RECORDED ON DVD.
5. BABYSITTER TESTIFIED PRIOR TO AUTOPSY REPORT BEING PUBLISHED, SHE SAW A RAISED BUMP OR KNOT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF GRACELYNNS HEAD PRIOR TO JEFF PICKING HIS DAUGHTER UP.
6. NOT ONE MEDICAL STAFF FOUN ANY MARKS ON GRACELYNN WHEN SHE ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL.
7. HOSPITAL COMPROMISED GRACELYNNS OXYGEN FIRST NIGHT IN ICU AND HER BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION LEVELS DROPPED TO OR BELOW 35%.
8. JEFF WAS ONLY HOME ALONE WITH GRACELYNN FOR 76 MINUTES.
9. ADA COUNTY CORONERS OFFICE RULED GRACELYNNS DEATH FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA I.E. THE BRUISE FOUND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER HEAD, WHICH THE BABYSITTER ADMITTED TO INFLICTING AND SAW RIGHT AFTER INFLICTING IT, ALONG WITH THE ADA COUNTY CORONER TESTIFYING THIS WAS NOT A “SHAKING BABY” CASE. THREE OUT OF FOUR PATHOLOGISTS TESTIFIED THIS WAS NOT SBS.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!
JEFFERY BAKER 54 YEARS OLD WAS CONVICTED OF SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME ON APRIL 22 2013.
JEFFERY BAKER IS BACK IN COURT ON A MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL BASED ON NEW EVIDENCE AND FALSE TESTIMONY FROM STATES WITNESSES.THE IDAHO SYSTEM SHOULD SET THIS INNOCENT FATHER, GRANDFATHER, SON AND BROTHER FREE!
Thank you for reaching out, Jamon. I have sent you a private email.