NEUMAN, Justice.
Defendant, Jose Dario Ruesga, was convicted in 1992 of felony child endangerment and willful injury for unspeakable child abuse inflicted on four-year-old Jonathan Waller. Jonathan survived in a fragile state for nearly six more years but, upon his death, the State charged Ruesga with first-degree murder. Ruesga now seeks to reverse the conviction entered upon the jury's guilty verdict. He claims entitlement to a rule at common law that prevented...
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