NEW HAMPTON - Testimony ended in the trial of a Nashua man accused of kiling his infant daughter today, with the judge hearing testimony that a diagnosis of child abuse was wrong.

Dr. Janice Ophoven, forensic patholigist out of Woodbury, Minn., testified for the defense that she doubted the claims that Aliya Blanchard, age 12 days, died from shaken baby syndrome.

"To call this with reasonable medical certainty would require you to ignore half the facts and I'm not able to do that," Ophoven said.

Randy Blanchard, 32, the girl's father is on trial for first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he shook Aliya and slammed her down on a table on Feb. 2, 2008, at his home. The baby died six days later at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

On Tueday, Dr. Eric Pfeifer, coroner for Olmstead County, Minn., said he believed the baby died of blunt force trauma to her head.

Blanchard admitted to authorities that he shook the baby, but said it wasn't a severe shake.

Ophoven spent more than three hours on the witness stand Wednesday testifying that a number of medical conditions could have caused Aliya's death. Among those were various bleeding diseases, infections and vitamin deficiencies.

She said a combination of those could have mimicked child abuse. She also testified that she did not think shaking a child could have caused the amount of injuries Aliya received.

She said her analysis of the case doesn't show conclusively whether Aliya suffered a skull fracture.

"It is a key clinical finding if it (a skull fracture) is present. If it is not present, then this whole thing I think is tragically off base," she said.

The case has been turned over to Judge Richard Stochl about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after final arguments were made. A jury is not hearing the case and it will be decided by Stochl.

A more indepth story on the final arguments will be in Thursday's Courier.