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Why the insanity defense failed Yates.
Byline: Emilie Lounsberry and Susan FitzGerald
Mental illness did not mean she couldn't tell right from wrong, experts say - and that was the key to the trial.
The Andrea Yates jury today will begin weighing whether she should be sentenced to death, or life in prison.
If a woman who methodically drowns each of her five children isn't insane, who is?
That question has been debated over and over in the case of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who admitted killing her children, yet a jury took just 3 { hours Tuesday to reject her insanity defense and convict her of capital murder.
With the jury to consider today whether Yates should be sentenced to life in prison or death, legal and mental-health experts say Yates faced an uphill battle in a very…
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...defense. The plight of mentally ill criminal defendants...treatment for convicted mentally ill offenders is shamefully...Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates, exposes much of what...system's handling of mentally ill defendants. Yates...
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(From AP Online) Byline: PAM EASTON Andrea Yates once advised a fellow inmate that she could escape prosecution by pretending to be mentally ill and persuading a psychiatrist she suffered from serious disorders, according to court documents...
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...Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates." It's in bookstores...extensive contact with Andrea Yates. Good morning. Can...the treatment that Andrea Yates was given or not given...wonderful point. She was mentally ill and being treated for...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Langford, Terri February 27, 2002 700+ words
HOUSTON _ Andrea Yates' husband Wednesday...said. "My mistake." Andrea Yates was given Haldol when...something like she did." Andrea Yates had also called police...establish that she was so mentally ill at the time of the murders...
- Andrea Yates' husband takes stand in her defense.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 27, 2002 700+ words
...Langford HOUSTON _ Andrea Yates' husband Wednesday...My mistake." Andrea Yates was given Haldol when...something like she did." Andrea Yates had also called police...establish that she was so mentally ill at the time of the...
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- Magazine article from: Pediatric Nursing Meier, Eileen May 1, 2002 700+ words
...Questions The Andrea Yates case brings into...sentencing of the mentally ill? Do we provide...in jail who is mentally ill? Does a guilty...even if they are mentally ill. What changes...episodes, as in Andrea Yates's case, is...
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...at that time." Yet Andrea Yates told the police that...simplistic. Sadly, if Andrea Yates had been tried in almost...reason of insanity. Andrea Yates would be in a mental...understand and treat the mentally ill with science and compassion...
Source: HighBeam Research, Why the insanity defense failed Yates.
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