dc.contributor.author | Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-12T12:13:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-12T12:13:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 30 Am. J. Crim. L. 315 (2003) | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/6461 | |
dc.description.abstract | On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of her five children by drowning them, one by one, in a bathtub. At her trial on capital murder charges nine months later, she pleaded insanity. Despite very credible evidence that she had long suffered from serious mental disorder, a Texas jury convicted Yates of murder and sentenced her to life in prison. Her tragic and controversial case led many to question whether the so-called "M'Naghten" test for insanity, which forms the basis for the insanity defense in Texas, adequately defines the exculpatory effect of mental disorder. This article is based on a talk given at a conference entitled "The Affirmative Defense of Insanity in Texas," which took place in the wake of the Yates trial. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1 PDF (29 pages) | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Journal of Criminal Law | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Yates, Andrea -- Trials, litigation, etc. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Insanity defense -- Texas | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mentally ill offenders -- Texas | en_US |
dc.title | The Integrationist Alternative to the Insanity Defense: Reflections on the Exculpatory Scope of Mental Illness in the Wake of the Andrea Yates Trial | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |