New Yates' Trial Begins Today; Her Case Again Will Test Public Attitudes On Mental Illness

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › June 26, 2006

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HOUSTON (AP) - Mental health advocates and defense attorneys hope the public's mindset about mentally ill defendants has changed in the five years since Andrea Yates filled her bathtub with water and drowned her five children.

Since Yates' 2002 conviction, which was overturned on appeal, several other Texas mothers have killed their children and been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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New Yates' Trial Begins Today; Her Case Again Will Test Public Attitudes On Mental Illness

As Yates' retrial begins today with opening statements, those verdicts - as well as community outreach and...

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