2001, when she drowned her five children in the bathtub. Yates was, “found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life, a court of appeals reversed the conviction and found her insane,” (Montaldo, 2006). The now publicized case about Andrew Yates brings out previous medical issues of psychiatric problems that she dealt with before the death of her children earlier in life. The distinctions of the state's era has long forgotten law was not enough for Yates' defense lawyers. They tried to prove…
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