BREAKING NEWS: Andrea Yates Not Guilty in Retrial

[Brent]

[Skywatch_NC]

Crappin' American judicial system!

[dizzyfish]

I have a real issue with that!

[O Town]

Here is a link to the story.
http://www.wftv.com/news/5286592/detail.html

Very upsetting, and don't see how the outcome could be much different. I surley hope it's not going to be different.

[southerngale]

What a waste of our tax dollars! She did it and she admitted it. I can't believe they have to try this case again!

Just hearing about it again is very disturbing and now we'll be hearing about it a lot more. I've cried many tears for those innocent children. Now why didn't she get the death penalty?

[vbhoutex]

What a waste of our tax dollars! She did it and she admitted it. I can't believe they have to try this case again!

Just hearing about it again is very disturbing and now we'll be hearing about it a lot more. I've cried many tears for those innocent children. Now why didn't she get the death penalty?

She didn't get the death penalty because she was insane. I agree with all the sentiments above. THIS IS MADDENING!!!!

[GalvestonDuck]

All because some dork of a shrink carried on about the influence of a non-existent episode of "Law & Order."

Heck, he might as well have said she ate too many Twinkies.

[streetsoldier]

All because some dork of a shrink carried on about the influence of a non-existent episode of "Law & Order."

Heck, he might as well have said she ate too many Twinkies.

More like "Lawn Order"...who knows what type of grass he was tokin' before court.

[O Town]

All because some dork of a shrink carried on about the influence of a non-existent episode of "Law & Order."

Heck, he might as well have said she ate too many Twinkies.

More like "Lawn Order"...who knows what type of grass he was tokin' before court.

Not to make light of the situation but,

[Brent]

What a waste of our tax dollars! She did it and she admitted it. I can't believe they have to try this case again!

Just hearing about it again is very disturbing and now we'll be hearing about it a lot more. I've cried many tears for those innocent children. Now why didn't she get the death penalty?

She didn't get the death penalty because she was insane. I agree with all the sentiments above. THIS IS MADDENING!!!!

It's absolutely ridiclous.

[Brent]

All because some dork of a shrink carried on about the influence of a non-existent episode of "Law & Order."

Heck, he might as well have said she ate too many Twinkies.

More like "Lawn Order"...who knows what type of grass he was tokin' before court.

Not to make light of the situation but,

That was funny.

[TexasStooge]

Yates pleads innocent by reason of insanity

HOUSTON, Texas (The Dallas Morning News/AP) - Andrea Yates pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her children Monday during her first court appearance since her 2002 capital murder convictions were overturned.

State District Judge Belinda Hill accepted the plea and set Yates case for trial on March 20.

Yates, 41, will remain in the custody of the Harris County Sheriff's Department until she is retried in the deaths of three of her five children. Her attorney, George Parnham, had asked that Yates be sent to Rusk State Hospital until the new trial.

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.

Yates was sentenced to life in prison.

The First Court of Appeals in Houston overturned Yates convictions last January because the state's expert 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.

[george_r_1961]

Crappin' American judicial system!

The same system is designed to keep innocents from being wrongly convicted and is not without flaws, the Yates case being a good example of one of the flaws. Our system isnt perfect nor will it ever be.

[Skywatch_NC]

Crappin' American judicial system!

The same system is designed to keep innocents from being wrongly convicted and is not without flaws, the Yates case being a good example of one of the flaws. Our system isnt perfect nor will it ever be.

Yes, that post I made in November was out of frustration and anger.

[Derek Ortt]

one of the prosecutions witnesses lied, which in some states (not sure about Texas) that the entire testimony is to be disregarded.

That moron should be tarred and feathered for perjury

[Terrell]

I think she should either be in prison for life (even if it's a prison for the mentally insane) or executed, preferably the latter.

I do, however, have a problem with the prosecutors choosing to try her on only 3 of the murders, instead of all 5. I know why they're doing this, (so they'll have another shot at her if she somehow manages to avoid prison (or execution) on the other 3) but since all 5 crimes are related she should be tried on all 5 at once. Seperating the 5 murders so that prosecutors can try her again if they don't get the sentence they want on the first 3 violates the spirit of double jeopardy, in my opinion.

[Aslkahuna]

Let's get this straight-the US does NOT have a Justice System, it has a LEGAL system.

Steve

[arkess7]

I am sick of "The System" this monster needs to be drown.......just like she did her poor innocent kids!!!!!

[george_r_1961]

Let's get this straight-the US does NOT have a Justice System, it has a LEGAL system.

Steve

Steve im as angry as you are but remember protecting the innocent has the same priority as prosecuting the guilty. Unfortunately in this case the "legal system" is being abused as there is no way she is "innocent" of the crimes she was rightly convicted of...except perhaps due to insanity. Yes thats the law. And if the jury agrees she insane she gets to spend the rest of her life in a comfy hospital instead of a prison cell. Unless of course some doctor declares her "cured".

[Tstormwatcher]

I think its a shame that her husband wasn't tried too. After all he was told after the first baby, not to get her pregnant anymore. But he put his selfish wants ahead of her health.