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Texas mother Andrea Yates' capital murder conviction for drowning her children in 2001 was overturned today by an appeals court. Yates' attorneys said that in the original court case a witness mentioned an episode of the TV show "Law & Order" where a woman was found innocent by reason of insanity for drowning her children; it turns out there was no such episode. The defense's appeal cited 19 errors the trial, but the appeals court only needed the false testimony issue to reverse the conviction.
On June 20, 2001 Yates called police to say that she had drowned her five children, ages six months to seven years old in the bathtub. According to testimony, Yates was overwhelmed by motherhood, suffered from post-partum depression, and believed Satan told her to drown her children. Yates was convicted in 2002 for the deaths of three of her children.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:55PM
Thomas Sullivan said...This Andrea Yates news. What does all this mean to the public? Will she be getting a new trail? Will she just remain in a mental hospital or will she be put back into the main stream? All these questions and no answers. As I understand the facts she did take the life of all three children. And she has a history of mental illness too. So what is the problem? That one person in her trial may have overstated his knowledge of this subject; does that make all he said wrong and false? I don’t think so. This woman needs help. Not a new trail at some outrageous cost to the public. She should be under a doctor’s care for the rest of her natural life. She is not stable and needs a doctors care round the clock. For reasons like this I feel she is a danger to the public and should not be allowed back into the public mainstream. Call it what ever, but this is not a person we want living next-door to us. Can someone please inject reason into this problem and just protect the public and not debate if she should be a convicted killer or she killed because of an illness. Just keep her safe and away form the rest of us.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:55PM
Melanie said...Burn in hell Andrea!!
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