Meadow's law

Meadow's Law is a now-discredited legal concept once used to adjudicate cases involving multiple instances of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as crib or cot deaths, linked to a single caregiver. Due to the rarity and often inexplicable nature of these deaths, the law posited that "one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise." Now recognized as fundamentally flawed and based on misunderstanding of statistics, Meadow's Law has been heavily criticized for leading to wrongful convictions and accusations.