At 08:58 PM 3/16/02, Julia wrote: >Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > ----- 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 > > > > > > > > > > > Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 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.
I agree that he bears a good deal of responsibility for what happened, and wonder if he himself perhaps lacks a few French fries of having a Happy Meal . . . -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
