The Mrs. Andrea Yates Trial

On June 7th 2008, Sarah May Ward was arrested for the murder of Eli Westlake after she ran him over in a motor vehicle in St. Leonards. Prior to the incident the offender had been driving the wrong way down Christine Lane which was a one way street. Whilst this was occurring she was intoxicated, under the influence of marijuana, valium, and ecstasy and was unlicensed to drive. The victim and his brother who were also intoxicated, where walking down the lane and where nearly hit by the offender. This prompted the victim to throw cheese balls at the car and make a few sarcastic remarks regarding her driving ability. After a brief confrontation between the two parties the victim and his brother turned away and proceeded to walk

The stories about Andrea being insane and having a psychological disorder do not prove to be true. According to Dr. Puryear, “Mrs. Yates was insane at the time driven by delusions that they were going to hell and she must save them.” If her doctor was aware of her status before all this happened, why did he let her be at home? Yates should have been helped and treated, since Dr. Puryear claims she had suffered from psychotic delusions. Dr. Puryear said “This woman did not now right from wrong,” as he stated to Court Television Network, on February 2,2002. It is somewhat strange how Mr. Yates claims he had no suspicions of her being unhealthful in the mind. What kind of married couple will not be able to detect this in their partner? Some of the jurors believed Andrea was mentally ill, but they also believed that she knew right from wrong. This is a key element in determining if the Andrea meets the legal definition of insanity.

The last part of the book focuses on the trial. Perry stays in the female cell of the jail where he became very close with Mrs. Meier. Perry refused to sign the statement because he wanted to change two things in it... that Dick had not killed Nancy and her mother. He wanted revenge on Hickok and blamed him for half of the murder which was not true. Dr.Jones is brought into the picture as the phycologist to bring his opinion on the case. The trial was set to start on March 22, 1960, but didn’t start until the Wednesday after. Nancy Ewalt and Susan Kidwell were the first the testify about the murder scene and many followed. Mr.Hickock, Dicks father, didn’t understand why there was a case as they were going to execute them anyways. They bring

Andrea Yates was a mother of five who lived in a Houston suburb. Andrea suffered from serve postpartum depression and psychosis which unfortunately lead her to drown all five of children in a bath tub one afternoon. Andrea was charged with capital murder and was given life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. However, she filed an appeal, and her original sentence was overturned, and she was found in innocent in 2006 on reason of insanity. I’m going to explain her upbringing and her mental health influenced her to murdering her children.

In 1982, the Supreme Court decided Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley. A deaf student, named Amy Rowley enrolled in kindergarten in public school in Peekskill, New York. Amy’s parents met with school administrators to plan for her attendance and to determine what supplemental services would be necessary for her education. Amy was assigned a sign language interpreter for a short portion of her kindergarten year. After two weeks, the sign language interpreter reported that Amy did not need the services inside of the classroom. Once Amy fished her kindergarten year and started first grade, an IEP was prepared for Amy’s assistances. The IEP was provided to Amy and her parents that she would be kept in the

Many people with schizophrenia never learn how to deal with their problems and in the case of Andrea Yates that was one of her problems. Early treatment and therapy could have prevented a tragedy like this one. Denial from her family also plays an important factor in this case. Andrea should have been institutionalized and forced to treatment, way long before she deteriorated in such manner. Her husband was in denial and probably her immediate family too. They are to blame as much as her for this tragedy. A big question will remain forever unanswered. Did Andrea Yates know she was doing something wrong when she drowned her children? Only God and her really know the answer. Personally I believe she knew she was doing something wrong. She just didn’t know how to deal with it. Having schizophrenia or a psychotic sickness does not exempt anyone from doing bad things. I guess living for the rest of your life knowing you killed all of your children is punishment enough. All we can learn from this case is that the main goal is help the person with schizophrenia learn to sort out the real from the unreal and hopefully with the advances in today’s science there will be better treatment in the future.

All through the United States the African American community has been targeted by the Caucasian community. We are in the year 2015 and still to this day we are having the same problem our grandparents and their ancestors were dealing with in today’s modern society. A young lady by the name of Renisha McBride became another victim of racism, she was shot and killed asking for help after she was in a car accident. The accident happened in Dearborn Heights Michigan, which is 20 minutes away from the major city Detroit. This is an unfortunate event that happens all the time throughout the country.

In 2010, a California mother named Jennifer Bigham drowned her 3 year old daughter, Alexandrea Bigham, in a bathtub. After extensive evaluation and testing, it was determined that Bigham was not guilty by reason of insanity, thus allowing her to enter an institution for both treatment and counseling. In 2013, after three years of institutionalization, Jennifer Bigham was released to reenter society as a free woman. As deemed by multiple professionals and doctors Phil Trompetter and Jocelyn Roland, she was no longer a threat to herself or society, and would be able to reclaim the life that she had so viciously lost during her psychotic break three years prior. Her utilization of the insanity plea, which argues that a defendant is not responsible

Sabrina Butler was an eighteen year old mother who tried to save her child but, “her attempts at CPR were interpreted as fatal abuse” and she spent time on death row before being exonerated and found completely innocent of the murder charges ( ). Nicole Harris falsely confessed to punching her infant “because he would not stop crying” ( ). This confession came after detectives questioned her, without Mirandizing her, and immediately after the death of her child and having her other child taken away from her. The detective clearly manipulated her and used her child as “a tactic to secure a confession.” Luckily for her, her conviction eventually got overturned after receiving assistance by post-conviction attorneys, or she would still be in prison today (

When you Google search the name “Amanda Knox,” roughly 11,000,000 results appear; primarily featuring stories about her life and social media accounts. Yet, when you enter the same name into the LexisNexis database, 977 newspaper related articles appear. The LexisNexis database provides electronic accessibility to legal and journalistic documents; this shows that the media did not cover the legal aspect of Knox’s story as much as they covered her personal life. This discovery makes me question: why was the media so infatuated with reporting about Amanda Knox’s life, rather than her murder trial?

Also it goes on to explain more techniques they used, for example “they ask the suspect to imagine hypothetical scenarios by feeding the information that they want the suspect to imagine. Eventually over a long drawn out interrogation, the suspect gets confused and starts complying with the request being made to imagine the scenarios. Eventually after the long hours of interrogation with no food or water Amanda did as she had been told and described an imaginary scenario where she was in the house covering her ears while hearing the screams of meredith being murdering. After she described it, the police typed it out and this was Amanda's confession from being interrogated physically and mentally by 12 Italian police,” This source shows extreme bias against the interrogation in general especially through this statement, by word choice, they have word choice such as ‘long drawn out interrogation’, ‘mind games’, all of the language is completely bias and wants the reader to feel bad for amanda. They do provide videos of Amanda being physically abused in the interrogation and the things that the police said can be heard however they only include Amanda's view they do not quote anything from the Italian police or people that supported the interrogation. They quote nothing positive about the

Every generation has felt, at one point or another, uneasy about the efficacy of their justice system. One need not look further than a few months ago with the controversial murder trial of Casey Anthony. People were enraged by the jury’s decision to let her go. Up until today, many people are convinced that there existed enough evidence for convicting her of first-degree murder of her daughter. Can we say that today’s justice system is ineffective in administering punishment? Should people take matters in their own hands if they do not agree on the court’s decision? Well, two thousand years ago, things were different. People took matters in their own hands. There was no judge, jury, prosecutor or defendant in Ancient Greece. Individuals acted as executioners based on their own predilections on how justice should be administrated and on whom. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus praises the substitution of such blood vengeance system with trial by jury, which according to him was a more civilized and equitable system. In that matter, I must agree with Aeschylus and argue that jury by trial is a far more civilized and equitable system than the old blood vengeance system.

She waits for Saturday before she stalks Aaron Echolls again. Digging up his credit history, fine, she could do that between classes. Phone logs were a little sketchier, apparently Mr. Echolls had up to three cell phones, she would have to talk to Logan about that. And internet info… She was put off enough by the number of times people in that house Google-d themselves, she didn’t have time to stomach the porn. The Lilly Kane murder trial interest was morbid, but she figured she could relate. Going back months, there were searches about Lilly. She might talk to Logan about that, too.

Yates traveled state to state, carjacking people along the way, and eventually arrived back to Chicago where he began to look for his sister, Nellie Carr. During this time he started using the spyware on Lindsay’s phone to keep tabs on the investigation. Yates arrives at an apartment complex, finds the apartment his sister owns, and knocks on the door. Yates eventually charms his way into the apartment and brutally killed all of Nellie’s roommates who were nurses, searching for her. When he didn’t find her at her home, Yates went to her job where he asked a couple of students where she was and they informed him she was covering class and was headed to the parking lot. While he waits he called Lindsay spoofing her mom’s phone number and Lindsay ignores it. When Yates found Nellie, he kidnapped her and left another note taunting Lindsay and revealing he knew she was at the station. He starts interrogating Nellie about her past and keeps mentioning how everyone needs a home.

Mrs.Maloney should be prosecuted.She was so close to get a heavily punished sentence. The sentence could’ve gotten her the death penalty. In order to get the death penalty you need to be in some serious trouble. You can easily get the death penalty by committing a murder.Especially when you’re married to a detective that has been in the police force for awhile. Mrs.Maloney somehow managed to get away with murder.