Prosecutors who accused Angela Cannings in the 1990s of suffocating her two sons relied on prominent pediatric experts who testified that multiple unexplained infant deaths in one family were extraordinarily unlikely to occur naturally. Cannings was sentenced to life in prison, but less than two years later, an appeals court overturned her conviction, ruling that prosecutors should not proceed when reputable experts disagree about the cause of death, and there is no other compelling evidence. | 
