Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial
Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial On this day in 2002, the defense rests on the Andrea Yates trial. Yates confessed to killing her 5 children by drowning them in a bathtub. When the police arrived, she stated that she was saving her kids souls by killing them. During trial, Yates was found guilty and sentenced to life despite pleading for insanity. Interestingly, in 2005 the court reversed the decision because the expert witness used Dr. Park Dietz gave information to influence the jury. Therefore, in 2006 the court found Yates not guilty and since then she has been admitted to a mental hospital in Texas. The defense rests in the trial of Andrea Yates, a 37-year-old Texas woman who confessed to killing her five young children by drowning them in a bathtub. Less than a week later, on March 13, Yates was convicted and sentenced to life in prison; however, her conviction was later reversed. Andrea Pia Kennedy was born July 2, 1964, in Houston, Texas, and married Russell Yates on April 1...