Woman Pleads Insanity in Deaths of 3 Children
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Andrea Yates,who drowned her five chidlren, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as she made her first court appearance since her 2002 capital murder convictions were overturned.
State District Judge Belinda Hill in Houston set a March 20 trial date.
Yates, 41, may remain in the custody of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department until she is retried for the deaths of three of her children. Her lawyer, George Parnham, wants her sent to a hospital until the trial.
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