Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a former resident of Houston, Texas,This is a case of a woman with history of mentally ill, who killed her 5 children drawing all of them in a bathtub,on June 20, 2001. she stated that her reason for murder her kids was because she was trying to saved them from satan’s, that she have to murder her children to protect their souls. Andrea was found guilty and sentenced to a life in prison without parole, them her lawyer appeal and her sentence was revoked and she was mandated to a mental institution. She was found not guilty due insanity, this meant that she considered not able to understand that magnitude of her actions or does not believe she was doing nothing wrong. The case was reviewing
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After the guilty verdict, but before sentencing, the State abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses. In2002 she went to trial and she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was overturned on appeal.
Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. In order to rules a case under the M'naghten rules there;s have to be clean proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason , from the disease of the mind , as not to know the nature and quality of the act, the party accused was doing or if he did know it , that he did not know what was wrong ..
On July 26, 2006, the Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity.
She was consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, Vernon Campus.She in the hospital watching the video of her children when she murdered them. Obviously her mental health issues are severe. I agree with the verdict in this case because due the her mental health history , in order to understand her mental stability it's important to understand the symptoms of postpartum
After the guilty verdict, but before sentencing, the State abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses. In2002 she went to trial and she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was overturned on appeal.
Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. In order to rules a case under the M'naghten rules there;s have to be clean proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason , from the disease of the mind , as not to know the nature and quality of the act, the party accused was doing or if he did know it , that he did not know what was wrong ..
On July 26, 2006, the Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity.
She was consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, Vernon Campus.She in the hospital watching the video of her children when she murdered them. Obviously her mental health issues are severe. I agree with the verdict in this case because due the her mental health history , in order to understand her mental stability it's important to understand the symptoms of postpartum