Andrea Yates' Murder Conviction Overturned
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Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by an appeals court Thursday because a psychiatrist for the prosecution gave erroneous testimony that suggested the Texas mother got the idea from an episode of "Law &amp; Order."
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The jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of confessed serial killer Coral Eugene Watts. The verdict is expected to be read later today.
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A Nicaraguan appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a U.S. man sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend.
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An 18-year-old is convicted of manslaughter but cleared of murder after a six-year-old girl dies in a fire at her Birmingham home.
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A state appeals court overturned the conviction of Martin H. Tankleff, who was imprisoned for the grisly murders of his parents in 1988.
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A mother has her conviction for murdering her four-month-old son 10 years ago quashed during a retrial.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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Indonesia&#39;s supreme court has overturned the conviction of the only man so far imprisoned for the violence surrounding East Timor&#39;s vote for independence five years ago.
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The justice department is set to overturn the convictions of three men after it emerged mistakes were made in the case.
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A California murder conviction should not have been overturned because the victim's family wore buttons with his photograph during the trial, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
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Three Greek doctors convicted of killing a County Durham holidaymaker are cleared on appeal.
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A jury today returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest for Michael Barnett, who died after he became stuck in a storm drain during the summer floods in Hull.
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Prosecutors moved Friday to drop the murder case against a man freed after nearly a decade in prison, but stopped short of saying he was exonerated by the DNA evidence that led a judge to overturn his conviction.
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A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child.
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The State Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to overturn the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson, who was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death in their home in 2001.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.