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.
"What was there to LIE about?"
A prosecution expert claimed she was sane and merely imitating a law and order episode, which, in truth, had not aired at the time of the killings.
(The L&O episode was based on the killings, not the other way around, I think.)
Maybe there's some water left in the tub...
I am waiting for the birth announcements. If she is bailed and awaiting trial, can she get free fertility treatments from the Corrections Dept.?
That's funny. The psychiatrist used to be a friend from church. Very sweet person. The screenwriter that wrote the episode of CSI or whatever was sitting in the office right next door to me for a while doing some contract writing, but kind of got canned for not producing, and then when she DID produce, plaigerizing.
I don't think the prosecution claimed she was imitating the attacks, only that she used the insanity excuse because of that episode.
4k per kid gets a get out of jail card. Life is cheap.
Nobody ever claimed we didn't have frickin' liberals down here or that they aren't trying the same garbage they do out there. For Pete's sake the Lawrence decision was on a case that happened right here in Houston. Course, it couldn't have happened in CA because y'all probably didn't have a sodomy law to overturn.
It is not true that she will be spend the rest of her life in an institution if she is found not guilty by reason of insanity. If she can show that she is no longer insane later, she will be released. Recall that is what is happening to the guy who shot Reagan.
Her defense is insanity. I think she was/is insane and deserves a fair trail, which she didn't get the first time.
And even IF she is found to be not guilty due to insanity, I hope she is locked up her entire life because society cannot afford to pay the price just in case she goes off of her meds again and kills/harms someone else.
Someone HAS to protect society from these "loonies". Once again, it is up to our justice system to do the right thing.
Will the system prevail?
I defer to your greater knowledge.
But her insanity started a LONG time before the killings.
She'd been in and out of mental institutions for years, suicide attempts, etc.
I am not opposed to her spending the rest of her miserable life in a mental institution, just as long as someone can guarantee she'll never be pronounced "cured" and let out.
Metally culpable or not, she's clearly dangerous.
Keep in mind that WABC news is not a credible source, but that's what they are reporting.
From jail to a mental institution, actually.
I really hate the so-called insanity defense.
It should be "guilty, with mitigation by insanity" and still go away for ever, just don't get the needle.
My wife just said, B**L S**T!!!!
His premise was that she was sane and used the plot from a TV show as a way to murder her children.
The law is the law. The Dr. was incorrect.
Doubt the new verdict will be any different unless there is a plea deal.
Very sad news. This woman should be locked up and never see the light of day.
I have a little experience with these types. I am not for punishing the mentally ill, as I truly feel she is. But I can tell you, anyone that commits a heinous crime like this while mentally ill should not be released.
You can't trust them. You really can't. Even if they are good now, you don't know if they will suddenly stop taking their meds or just "go off".
I've been there.
Ahh, may be time to dig up the old Yates threads and ping her bleeding heart FR contingent.
You are absolutely correct. The legal definition of "insane" is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. Since she called the police, she knew that she had done something wrong. It seems pretty clear cut.
"Doubt the new verdict will be any different unless there is a plea deal."
Since there is no statute of limitations for murder, I suppose they could defer her prosecution until such (unlikely) time as some doctor decides to try to let her out of the looney bin.
She avoids the possibility of murder and yet, almost certainly, stays in a mental institution for the rest of her life --- staying, as she'd have no motivation for getting out, as she'd just then get tried for murder.
Works for me.
OMG!
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