WTW: Katie Couric’s Tears of Joy
November 9th, 2005 at 9:29 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes
Katie’s tears of joy must have been plentiful when she heard the news of Andrea Yates getting a second trial for her five late-term abortions in 2001.
Harris County Assistant District Attorney Alan Curry said the case will be retried or a plea bargain considered. Jurors rejected Yates’ insanity defense in 2002 and found her guilty of two capital murder charges for the deaths of three of her five children.
A lower court ruling in January had thrown out the convictions because of erroneous testimony that prosecutors used to suggest that Yates had gotten the idea for the killings from an episode of the television show “Law & Order.”
Ironically, the trial’s original prosecutors, recent graduates from the Marcia Clark Video Correspondence School of Lawyering in Southern California, got the idea for the “Law & Order” testimony while watching an episode of “Law & Order”.
Curry said if the case goes back to trial, he is confident Yates will be convicted again. She had been sentenced to life in prison.
“Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing,” Curry said. “She knew that it was wrong.”
She may have known it was wrong, but it felt so right.
There has been no word from the National Organization of Hags on whether or not Andrea will have to turn in her 2001 Reproductive Rights Superstar of the Year Award.
Here are your White Trash Wednesday bloggers….
November 9th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Texas Appeals Court Lets Stand Ruling Al
The state's highest criminal court on Wednesday let stand a lower court ruling that threw out A