Woman who drowned kids appeals conviction (Andrea Yates)

modbee ^ | 12-14-04

[LouAvul]

HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates' murder convictions for drowning her children should be overturned because the state's expert witness gave false testimony about working on an episode of "Law and Order," her attorneys told a state appeals court Tuesday.

Yates was sentenced to life in prison in the 2001 deaths of three of her children after jurors rejected her insanity defense. She was not tried in the deaths of the other two.

Psychiatrists testified that Yates suffered from schizophrenia and postpartum depression.

Her attorneys told a three-judge panel of the state's First Court of Appeals that she deserves a new trial because of 19 errors that were committed in her 2002 trial.

[jerri]

I would hope that they are saving those 2 murder charges as backup in case she gets her current convictions overturned.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I think that the State should require Scott Peterson to marry Andrea Yates. Seems like a good match, a fertile white woman mass murderer and Harold Ickes/Terry McAuliffe/Billary a promiscuous fertilizer salesman.

[marajade]

I believe he's filed for divorce.

[eleni121]

The ex is just as nutty as she is. But she is still guilty of murder. She should pay with her life. He's lucky he got off scot free.

[skip_intro]

When a caller tried to tell Rush that their comments were in response to media questions he would have none of it....had to stick to his opinion, which was WRONG.

Pretty normal behavior for Limbaugh these days. Perhaps he has sympathy for Peterson because of his Marta problem.

[jerri]

fertilizer salesman

When he wasn't selling it he was talking it.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

fertilizer salesman--When he wasn't selling it he was talking it.


all of the rascals in my prior post sold it for a living....

[BigSkyFreeper]

He did file for divorce.

[KoRn]

Isn't it interesting how she's supposedly crazy enough to murder her children, but sane enough to have her lawyers file appeals?

[OldFriend]

Haven't been a Rush fan for a long time. The radio is usually on as background noise until Rush says something irksome, then I turn it off and listen to music.

[af_vet_1981]

We don't execute prisoners in Texas unless they are given the death penalty by the jury!

Well I hope the jury in Texas finds the real killer and executes him or her ...

[deport]

We don't execute prisoners in Texas unless they are given the death penalty by the jury!

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One of the few times the insanity defense worked for a defendant.....

[MEG33]

I agree...I wish we had a guilty but insane option in Texas..She clearly demonstrated she knew what she did was wrong by her call to 911...but she was also clearly insane..Her husband has my contempt..

[Hildy]

She should have taken out her ex as well.

[MEG33]

She was found guilty..!

[najida]

We are on the same page about this. Insane, guilty and her hubby needs to be there with her.

[deport]

One of the few times the insanity defense worked for a defendant.....

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Whoops...... my bad

The jury didn't accept the insanity defense and found her guilty of capital murder but chose life rather than death... sheesh don't know what I was thinking. I guess it was about the one up in East Texas that killed her children with rocks... I think that jury bought the insanity defense.

[cubreporter]

She stood and watched as her little boys were going down in the car. How very sad for those little ones to see their mother and not help them. I have no sympathy for this woman. She killed her children. The one they trusted the most is the one that killed them and in such a hideous way. She deserves to stay in jail for the rest of her life.

[N. Theknow]

Andrea Yates' murder convictions for drowning her children should be overturned because the state's expert witness gave false testimony about working on an episode of "Law and Order," her attorneys told a state appeals court Tuesday.

So, the kids aren't really dead then?

Oh, they are?

Well, any way the poor woman lost her children, have a heart.

Lawyers = toenail fungus.

My apologies to toenail fungi everywhere. That was low.

[af_vet_1981]

She was found guilty..!

She changed her mind. She says she is not guilty.