Posted on 02/27/2006 12:12:47 PM PST by dmz
They can't apply the death penalty in the re-trial, becuase they didn't ask for it in the original trial.
That being said, they only charged her with two of the murders in the first trial. They could still charge her with the other murders and ask for the death penalty in those cases without incurring a problem with double-jeopardy.
He knew she was capable. Read her history.
Evil woman deserves to go to the gallows. Hell can't wait for her.
Can she still get the death penalty or is that off the table?
I'm inclined to believe that if pressure was that great, she could have packed her bags and taken a taxi to the nearest Greyhound terminal and hopped a bus to anywhere in the country. Her husband won't win any parenting awards, but he didn't hold those poor kids underwater in the bathtub until they turned blue.
~ Blue Jays ~
Can she still get the death penalty or is that off the table?
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Unfortunately the limited info available at this time doesn't say.
Which is why they only charged her with the 2 murders originally. They have kept the other 3 in the back pocket for just this contingency.
I doubt they will go for Death on those 3, but I can garauntee that she will have the book thrown at her if she passes up this plea deal -- she will never see the light of day for the rest of her life.
Under our justice system, if she really is crazy, she doesn't need the plea deal. So by rejecting it she proves she's crazy and goes off to an asylum.... QED.
I think I'll still hold the person who actually drowned the children to a much greater degree of responsibility.
I wonder if she is available as a nanny. She seems so good at controlling children.
No one is "forced" to do anything they don't want to, this woman could have run away under cover of nite, those kids would still be with us. I don't have any sympathy for her.
No, Yates is the one rightly held accountable.
At some point she could have left but after she descended into madness he had years (2 babies later) to recognize her condition. He needs to be figured in the blame along with her. If anyone was ever insane it is her. She needs to be locked up in an insane asylum until the day she dies. He on the other hand will (or has) remarry and start over again.
"She is crazy if she rejects this deal."
Can they use that as part of an insanity defense?
Call a cab, that's the ticket! If crazy people were thinking straight they wouldn't be crazy would they?
Trust me on this: when I have grandchildren, if I think they are in ANY danger I WILL do whatever it takes to get them to safety. At least one of the grandma's knew as they were supposed to be supervising her the day of the murders. And this wasn't a case of no one being aware of Andrea's "illness". They ALL knew.
Would you trust your grandchildren to a woman that had been in and out of the psychiatric hospital because voices told her to hurt her children?
Agreed. If there was any justice, Rusty would be in prison right along with her. What a callous disregard for her well-being and that of the children.
I'll never forget the contrast between those two on the day that happened. She looked like a skinny wretch and he looked very well taken care of.
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