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Jul. 26th, 2006 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAndrea Yates found not guilty.
It's not that she *didn't* murder her five children - even her lawyers admit this. It's that she was clinically depressed, psychotic, and her husband demanded that she stop going to the psychiatrist and stop taking her medication because God wanted him to have more children, and she agreed because God says she's supposed to obey her man, and so she was in a deeply, uh, UNDERMEDICATED state when she decided that killing them all was the only way to save their souls from Satan.
She was convicted in her first trial, but it was overturned when it was revealed that the prosecutor's expert witness blatantly perjured himself.
It's not that she *didn't* murder her five children - even her lawyers admit this. It's that she was clinically depressed, psychotic, and her husband demanded that she stop going to the psychiatrist and stop taking her medication because God wanted him to have more children, and she agreed because God says she's supposed to obey her man, and so she was in a deeply, uh, UNDERMEDICATED state when she decided that killing them all was the only way to save their souls from Satan.
She was convicted in her first trial, but it was overturned when it was revealed that the prosecutor's expert witness blatantly perjured himself.