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On January 12, 2016, one month after Nolan Kelly died from inflicted injuries, a warrant was issued for John Stewart's arrest.

Detective Stephen Luke's affidavit lays out the information you've heard over the last several episodes.

The accounts from Danica, Larry, and John of the 24 hours that preceded Nolan's hospitalization,

the messages from John telling Danica that Nolan had had a seizure, the injuries to Nolan's brain, neck, and ribs that both Dr. Smith and Dr. Vega confirmed in their reports.

The warrant notes Dr. Vega's comments that seizure symptoms would have occurred shortly after

the brain and spinal cord injuries he observed during the autopsy, and mentions that Dr. Smith

also stated that the initial seizure, the one that John told Dana kept out, would have

occurred around the time of the original injury to the brain

and that the other symptoms he was reported to be experiencing, lethargy, inability to eat or keep

fluids down, were consistent with the progression of cerebral edema or swelling of the brain.

The detectives laid out their evidence, which is undergirded by the two medical experts

in the case.

So what happened? How did we end up here?

No one's been held accountable for this child's death.

Exactly. Well, only one person's only been held partially accountable, and that was me.

I spent a year in jail and two years on an ankle monitor and had my rights taken away.

And then they came out with a Noel cross.

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