Reginald “Regi” Tanubagijo spent 11 years in a San Quentin prison cell wracked with grief, enduring a sentence for a crime he said he never committed.
In 2014, Tanubagijo was convicted of killing his infant foster son after Solano County prosecutors convinced a jury that the child’s head injuries could only be explained by shaken baby syndrome, an injury that occurs after an infant is violently shaken.
Tanubagijo, 68, insisted he never shook the 3-month-old. The baby fell and hit his head while being fed, he said. In court, though, prosecutors argued the pattern of injuries to the child’s head could only have come from abusive trauma. Tanubagijo was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life…