False Testimony Led to Child Drownings Conviction Reversal

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HOUSTON - A citizen's e-mail suggestion that prosecutors check out a supposed television drama in which a mother got away with drowning her children started a series of mistakes that led to the reversal of Andrea Yates' capital murder convictions.

A Texas appeals court this week threw out the convictions in the drownings of three of Yates' five children, saying testimony from the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Park Dietz, was false.

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False Testimony Led to Child Drownings Conviction Reversal

Dietz told jurors at the 2002 trial about an episode of the television show "Law & Order" in which a woman was found innocent by reason of insanity for drowning her chi...

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