He says the issue didn't come up again until Dietz was on the witness stand being questioned by attorneys for Yates. UPDATE, WED, 6 PM: After more than two days of deliberations, a jury reaches a verdict in the retrial of Andrea Yates. The trial of Andrea Yates – Andrea Yates was charged with capital murder in the 2001 deaths of her five children. Andrea Yates and her lawyer during the trial. Yates is expected to be committed to a state mental facility where she'll receive periodic reviews to consider her health and possible release. Andrea Yates had a history of mental health issues, and had previously attempted suicide. Days later, the same eight-woman, four-man jury panel, took less 40 minutes to recommend a life sentence. She was convicted in the drownings of three of her five children.
Muhlenberg County High School has officially canceled Friday night’s game against Breckinridge County due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in the area. The question was never if, but why Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the bathtub. Andrea then phoned the emergency services and asked the police to come to the house.

A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. When Rusty Yates returned from work fifteen years ago, he found his children drowned in the bathtub by his wife, Andrea. Fourteen years ago, mother of five Andrea Yates drowned each of her children in the family bathtub before calmly calling husband, Rusty, and the police to confess her crime. UPDATE, 5PM FRI: "It wasn't us!" She could have received the death penalty after jurors rejected her insanity defense. Rusty Yates, her former husband, defends, "Yes, Andrea took the lives of our children. "She's where she needs to be," said attorney George Parnham. "I got many calls … begging me to do something other than prosecute her because of the mental health issues, when in fact, that was not my decision to make," state District Judge Belinda Hill told members of the Pasadena Optimist Club during a meeting Wednesday. UPDATE, WED, 6 PM: After more than two days of deliberations, a jury reaches a verdict in the retrial of Andrea Yates.

The three-judge panel says it's vacating the 2002 ruling because a prosecution expert witness gave false testimony. The verdict was returned during the jury's third day of deliberations, after Yates' lawyers argued their client was delusional when she drowned her five children in the bathtub.

The judge gave them that information Wednesday morning, and a verdict was reached soon after. It turned out there was no such episode. On January 9, 2006, Andrea Yates again pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

According to a website he established in his children's memory, Yates is a former NASA engineer who remarried after divorcing Andrea a few years after the killings.

"I learned so much in that time," she said. Andrea, who suffered from postpartum psychosis, was initially convicted of capital murder but was later found not guilty by reason of insanity in a second trial.

She'll be held in a state mental facility, likely for the rest of her life. Here is up-to-date information psychiatrists can use to help mothers and their partners make informed decisions about treatment.
The judge who presided over the capital murder trial of Andrea Yates says her office was flooded with letters and telephone calls asking she show the Houston mother leniency.

Yates, 37, was convicted March 12 of two capital murder charges in the drowning deaths last June of three of her five children.

Within the space of an hour, all five of Andrea Yates’s children were dead. Hill told the meeting one of the main issues in the case was the confusion people felt in understanding the difference between incompetency and insanity, The Pasadena Citizen reported Thursday. The tragedy of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother convicted of methodically drowning her five children in the bathtub, provides stark evidence for the need to recognize and treat women with severe postpartum depression. Hill said she will never forget her experience in the Yates case. The couple’s first child, Noah, was born in February 1994. June 20, 2019 Mug shot of Andrea Yates [Texas Department of Criminal Justice] In 2002, a jury took just four hours to convict her of murder. Yates now has an 8 … The panel had asked Tuesday evening to review the legal definition of insanity in Texas. The death penalty remains off the table because no new evidence was presented. A prosecutor in Houston says he'll ask for a re-hearing by the appeals court. During her trial, the psychiatrist said that he had consulted on an episode of the TV show "Law and Order" that had to do with a woman who was found innocent of by reason of insanity of drowning her children. The second jury agreed. She was psychotic on that day, and never would have harmed them otherwise.". Far away from the limelight, on the edge of the Texas Hill Country, is a place Andrea Yates has called home for more than a decade. All five were drowned in a bathtub at their home. Yates allegedly drowned her children in a bathtub. The judge who presided over the capital murder trial of Andrea Yates says her office was flooded with letters and telephone calls asking she show the Houston mother leniency. On June 20, 2001, mother of five Andrea Yates drowned her children, who ranged in age from six months to seven years, in the bathtub at her home in Houston, Texas.

The Texas First Court of Appeals in Houston ordered a new trial in the drownings of her children.

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Judge-in-Andrea-Yates-trial-talks-of-her-7872970.php, City reports increase of COVID cases week over week, City reports 87th coronavirus-related death. Andrea Pia Kennedy was born July 2, 1964, in Houston, Texas, and married Russell Yates on April 17, 1993. An appeals court Thursday overturned Yates' conviction for drowning three of her children in a bathtub. The appellate court held unanimously that the jury might have been influenced by Dr. Dietz’s false memory and therefore requested a new trial. Yates was not home at the time of the murders, and returned from work to find the grisly scene. On Thursday, a Texas appeals court struck down the murder convictions and the life prison sentence. He says if that fails, he'll appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Dietz said he made an honest mistake and claimed the information came from prosecutors. Prosecutors contended that Yates may have been mentally ill, but she still knew what was wrong - a defining issue for proving legal insanity in Texas.

"I did not have the authority to do that.". Andrea Yates had been sentenced to life in prison. Auburn RoadEvansville, IN 47720(812) 426-1414. Judges found that a jury might have been prejudiced by the false testimony of a prosecution expert, who said he'd consulted on an episode of NBC's "Law and Order" with a plot similar to the Yates case. UPDATE, 10:30 AM THURS: Prosecutors in Texas say they plan to appeal a ruling that tosses out the murder convictions of Andrea Yates. It will be read shortly in a Houston courtroom. A dramatic switch from her original trial four years ago when, convicted of murder, Yates was sentenced to life in prison. "We the jury find the defendant, Andrea Pia Yates, not guilty by reasons of insanity.". Stay with us, we'll have the verdict right here as soon as it's released. Congressional candidates offer opposing ideas on COVID, oil... City: Midlander dies after being ejected from vehicle, Bentley: PSP remains committed to the count, MISD board approves agreement with Riddick, Board selects new name for Robert E. Lee High School, ConocoPhillips in talks to buy Concho Resources, Family gives update on medical condition of Sema’J Davis, Meyers: Region showing ‘signs of significant outbreak’, DOREEN: Board turnover shouldn’t be result of renaming decision, Things to know about Wednesday’s Lee HS vote. UPDATE, WED, 11:15 AM: On their third day of deliberations, jurors in the Andrea Yates retrial have reached a verdict. A three-judge panel found that the Harris County jury may have been prejudiced by the false testimony of a prosecution expert. That's the truth. In her retrial, her attorneys said it was the act of a woman struggling with a severe mental illness.

UPDATE, WED, 12:05 PM: Andrea Yates showed little emotion, as a Houston judge told her jurors have found her not guilty by reason of insanity in the drownings of her children.

Andrea took Mary’s tiny corpse, placed it lovingly in John’s arms on the bed, and left Noah floating in the tub this time. If Yates is found innocent by reason of insanity, she will be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. However, no such episode exists. Now Andrea Yates is likely living out the rest of her life at the Kerrville State Hospital, a low-security mental health facility in Texas, according to PEOPLE. Turns out no such episode ever aired. The 2024, 2025 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Elite Eight will be at the Ford Center, as well as the 2026 NCAA II Swimming and Diving National Championships at the Deaconess Aquatic Center. In issuing its ruling Thursday the judges said there's "a reasonable likelihood" that his testimony could have swayed the jury. Soon after, Andrea Yates filled a bath with water and methodically drowned, one by one, her five children: Noah, 7 years old, John, 5 years, Paul, 3 years, Luke, 2 years, and Mary, who was aged just 6 months.