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Robert Seeberger wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Honest GOP? was Re: Steel tariffs
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> >
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> > Robert Seeberger wrote:
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> > > Texas is already a laughing stock over the Andrea Yates trial.
> >
> >
> > How so?
> >
> Texas law does not allow juries to be informed of the potential results of
> their decisions. IOW the jury was allowed to think that Yates would walk
> free if found "Not Guilty Due To Insanity". In actuality she would likely
> have been commited to a psychiatric facility for the rest of her life.
> Basicly Texas does not recognise insanity as a *real* medical condition.
> Texas believes that you can go nuts a kill a philandering spouse, and thats
> ok. But if you kill your kids (and who hasnt wanted to<G>) there must
> secretly be a motive.
>
> Before you start correcting me, I'm just being "over the top".
> I am really angry about this trial. It is obvious to me that mental health
> is not taken very seriously in this state. RE: State regulated insurance and
> my experiences with my ex-wife.
Actually, from all the reading I've done on this case (and I'm pretty
angry about this trial, as well), the only question the jurors were
supposed to consider with regards to the insanity defense was, Did the
defendant know right from wrong at the time the crime was committed?
The laws in Texas in the 1970s were better for constructively dealing
with this sort of thing, but Texas changed how the insanity defense goes
after Hinkley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after he shot
Reagan.
Now some of my fury has turned to wanting to have a few people,
including the husband, charged with negligence in this matter. Andrea
Yates wasn't given the death penalty, thank God and the sense of the
jurors, but Russell Yates shouldn't have even gotten her pregnant with
the fifth kid in the first place, based on the advice given him by the
doctors treating her for postpartum depression after the fourth kid was
born, and should have recognized that you shouldn't leave a suicidal
person alone with babies the way he did every day when he went to work,
and maybe HE should be executed, if anyone in this tragedy should.
OK, that was *way* over the top. I apologize if I upset anyone with
that little tirade.
BTW, Rob, are you in Harris County?
Julia
in Williamson County, if anyone's counting....
