The Mrs. Andrea Yates Trial

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

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 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

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

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.

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?

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.

Andrea Yates long history of mental illness did impact what she did to her children as well as an outside influence of Michael and Rachel Woroniecki. In 1993 Rusty and Andrea married and a year later they had their first child a son named Noah. They planned on having many children whatever God intended for them. Their five children were all named after figures from the Bible. After Andrea’s first child Noah was born she began to have violent visions and felt that Satan was speaking to her. Andrea kept all her feelings to herself not realizing how much mental illness was in her family because she and Rusty had Bible inspired notions about family and motherhood. Andrea tried to have a fourth child, but suffered a miscarriage. Not long

I agree with Winona Ryder in the sense that Abigail Williams craved attention and led people to believe that witchcraft was present in Salem to gain power; however, I don’t think she was entirely innocent. Abigail essentially sparked the idea of witchcraft in her attempt to be with John Proctor, when she tried to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor. In Act I, Betty calls Abigail out, saying she drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife, to which Abigail threatens her. After being seen in the woods together, the girls are all accused of witchcraft, but they twist it around on others in the town. Abigail convinced all her friends to go along with this plan, even threatening to harm them if they speak against her. In Act III, when Mary Warren confessed

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.

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.

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.

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 (

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

My conclusion is that yes, Yates is sick, but I feel a strong possibility of her understanding the wrongness of her actions to the rest of society but in her opinion acted in the greater good based on religiously psychotic feeling of heaven and hell which was a foundation of making a decision to take her children’s lives while understanding it was wrong and should have been dealt with by a swifter and stronger hand of justice. My opinion aside this is the conclusion and information brought forth by unbiased research as to the case and analysis of Yates. Only one of a twelve mental health experts who testified concluded that the Yates was legally sane when she drowned her five children in the family bathtub.