----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Andrea Yates
> At 07:52 PM 3/16/02, 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. > > > > I don't want to argue with you, but is it possible that the situation was > that the jury saw the difference between "likely" and "certainly", i.e., > they did not want to take the chance, however small, that she would be > allowed to walk free if they returned a verdict of "not guilty by reason of > insanity"? In Texas she would have been remanded to a psych facility until released by a judge in charge of her case. But of course telling the jury that is wrong under Texas law. > > FWIW, I would agree that being committed to a psychiatric facility for the > rest of her life might well have been the best available outcome in the > situation . . . And now she goes to prison, where it will cost 50,000 - 70,000 a year* to treat her there, considerably more than a psych facility. (*above the costs of simply jailing her) > > > > >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. > > > > What do you think would have been the best outcome of the trial? > Not Guilty Due To Insanity and the rest of her life in confined treatment. > > > > > >xponent > >Xpophenia Maru > >rob >
