Posted on 02/01/2006 9:26:14 AM PST by wardaddy
Andrea Yates granted bail by judge. Bail set at 200K. Husband is seeking the 20K for bondsman.
Breaking from Fox.
Kids in the neighborhood are issued scuba gear.
11:24 AM CST on Wednesday, February 1, 2006
From 11 News & wire reports
A Houston judge set bond at $100,000 for each of two capital murder counts against Andrea Yates, the Clear Lake mother who drowned her five children in 2001. Judge Belinda Hill agreed to set bond for Yates on the condition that she is voluntarily committed to a state mental hospital.
AP
Andrea Yates pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Yates is scheduled to be tried again on capital murder charges on March 20.
Yates, 41, was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison, but the conviction was later overturned because of false testimony by a prosecution witness.
Forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, testified that television’s “Law and Order” series aired an episode about a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children shortly before Yates killed her five children. Such an episode never existed.
Last month, Yates pleaded innocent by reason of insanity Monday in the drowning deaths of her children,
Jurors rejected Yates’ insanity defense during her original trial, finding her guilty for the 2001 deaths of three of the children drowned in the family bathtub: 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John and the youngest, 6-month-old Mary. Evidence was presented about the drowning of the other two children—Paul, 3, and Luke, 2 -- but Yates was not charged in their deaths.
She's not "sane" again. She's on bail while her "re-trial" is pending. She will be tried again because the prosecution LIED in the first trial. She is being held in a mental institution ON BAIL. She will not be walking the streets free. The re-trial will be tried on a plea of Guilty by insanity, which is exactly what she is. She will spend the rest of her life in an institution, not prison.
Just what IS her defense?
So the divorced hubby bailed her out.
Bet ya he'll remarry her.
Feb. 1, 2006, 11:08AM
Bond set for Andrea Yates
By DALE LEZON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Bond was set at $200,000 today in the case of Andrea Pia Yates, the mother accused of drowning her five children, but she must remain at a state mental hospital until her second trial begins.
Yates, 41, has admitted drowning her five children in a bathtub in her Clear Lake-area home in 2001. She is scheduled for retrial March 20 on capital murder charges stemming from the deaths of three of the children.
State District Judge Belinda Hill agreed to the bond, as long as Yates is voluntarily committed to Rusk State Hospital, where her attorney has wanted her placed.
Yates was found guilty in her first trial in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison, but the state's First Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in January last year and sent the case back to district court, saying erroneous testimony by a prosecution witness could have prejudiced jurors.
In November, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court for criminal cases, let that decision stand.
At her first trial, Yates pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors sought the death penalty and she was not allowed a bond. The jury found her guilty but said that mitigating circumstances — her mental state — precluded her execution and she was sentenced to life in prison.
Now, prosecutors can't seek the death penalty against her again because a jury in the first trial said she did not deserve it. Since she can't be executed, she can be granted a bond.
Yates was jailed at the Texas Department of Corrections Skyview unit, a psychiatric facility, until her conviction was overturned and she was moved to the Harris County jail in January. She is in the jail's psychiatric unit.
The First Court of Appeals ruled that Hill had erred in the first trial when she refused to declare a mistrial based on mistaken testimony from the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Park Dietz..
Dietz testified that one episode of the "Law & Order" TV series depicted a mother prosecuted for drowning her children who was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
A consultant to the series, Dietz said the episode aired shortly before Yates killed her children. Prosecutors told jurors that Yates watched the program regularly.
After Yates was convicted but before jurors decided her sentence, it was discovered that no such episode was ever produced. Dietz insisted that he had made an honest mistake and jurors were told of his mistake before deliberating about Yates' sentence.
Yet, the appeals court ruled that Dietz' error may have swayed jurors and tossed out the conviction.
Soon after her husband, Russell Yates, left for NASA where he worked as an engineer, Yates called Houston police to their home near Clear Lake June 20, 2001. Officers found the children dead in the house.
Yates told them she had drowned all five of her children in a bathtub. She had put the bodies of John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months, on a bed and covered them with a sheet, police said. She left Noah, 7, in the tub.
It is amazing what these bulldykes and wannabe-bulls will stand up for. Anything anti-family, anti-child, anti-marriage... ridiculous. They should self-abort post-natally.
I used to live in the area where all this happened. It was utterly unbelievable that something like that could happen there.
I could only assume that for someone to do what she did that she had to be completely insane at the time. Of course I've never thought that that should stand in the way of an execution.
As a comedian (Carlin???) once said--"if they're insane isn't that all the more reason to kill 'em."
What was there to LIE about?
She drowned FIVE kids, one by one. She PLANNED it over time.
No, she's not insane. She was sane enough to PLAN this and CARRY it out and when done murdering them she CALLED THE POLICE. This is not an "insane" person. She earned capital punishment.
not 3 children... but 5. She went and drown them one by one and then put them on her bed. She is LOONEY and does not need to be bailed out now or ever!!!! She did it and she must pay the price.
I believe there was testimony to the effect that the murders were similar to an episode of Law & Order. It turned out that there never was such an episode.
Texas turns pc.
Texans can no longer laugh at California for the OJ and Blake verdicts.
Unbelievable -- that this would happen in Texas.
Yeah she left the 7 year old in the tub alright. After he came in the house,walked into the bedroom calling for his brothers and seeing his siblings covered on that bed, saw them dead and then realizing what was happening, his mother chased him throughout the house and had to drag the 7 year old into the tub and hold him down to his death. I'll absolutely bet she didn't have the energy left to move him to the bed like her other children. I'll never forget reading about the bruising on his arms and shoulders from hitting the sides of the tub, that's just so disgusting.Why she is allowed to draw breath today is beyond me.
This is crazy beyond all belief. She is a worse criminal than Scott Peterson and what chance does he have for bail or a new trial, zero. As it should be.
A vagina is a get-out-of-jail-free card
She's nutty as a fruitcake.
She was on all sorts of depression, hallucination, and other drugs. Indeed, she had been involuntarily committed several times before as a danger to herself in others. (Kept hearing God, demons, etc.)
The family was mixed up with this goofy preacher who exacerbated things. ("Depressed? Crazy? Just pray more! It's a punishment from God! You deserve it!" etc.)
She got a new doctor (via the HMO, I believe) who didn't like all those drugs (in part because she kept getting pregnant). When she went off, she went bat-s crazy.
IMHO, the husband is at least partially culpable for leaving the kids with a woman who so clearly had a more than a few screws loose.
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