Well, well, well, Andrea Yeats' conviction was overturned on appeal. What is this going to do to Rusty's plan to divorce her and breed up a replacement bunch of kids on another woman he'd grind down?
An appeals court in Texas today overturned the murder conviction of Andrea Yates in the 2001 drowning deaths of her children, after finding that an expert witness for the prosecution provided false testimony in her trial.
Justices for the First Court of Appeals in Houston said that the testimony, from a psychiatrist, was central to the prosecution's arguments that Mrs. Yates was not insane when she drowned her five children, and that she knew the difference between right and wrong.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Park Dietz, testified that he had been a consultant on an episode of the television series "Law & Order" in which a woman drowns her children in a bathtub and later is acquitted by reason of insanity. Mrs. Yates said she was a frequent viewer of "Law & Order."
Her attorneys argued in an appeal last month that her conviction should be overturned partly because Dr. Dietz lied about having consulted on the "Law & Order" episode, which never existed. So overturned because of technical reasons, not because of the merit of the case. And L&O is affecting the courts? J'amuse.
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Re: I don't get it.
An appeals court in Texas today overturned the murder conviction of Andrea Yates in the 2001 drowning deaths of her children, after finding that an expert witness for the prosecution provided false testimony in her trial.
Justices for the First Court of Appeals in Houston said that the testimony, from a psychiatrist, was central to the prosecution's arguments that Mrs. Yates was not insane when she drowned her five children, and that she knew the difference between right and wrong.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Park Dietz, testified that he had been a consultant on an episode of the television series "Law & Order" in which a woman drowns her children in a bathtub and later is acquitted by reason of insanity. Mrs. Yates said she was a frequent viewer of "Law & Order."
Her attorneys argued in an appeal last month that her conviction should be overturned partly because Dr. Dietz lied about having consulted on the "Law & Order" episode, which never existed.
So overturned because of technical reasons, not because of the merit of the case. And L&O is affecting the courts? J'amuse.
Re: I don't get it.