Psychiatrist testifies at Yates trial
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Believing that Satan wanted her to drown her five children, Andrea Yates knew killing them was wrong and therefore wasn&#039;t insane as defined by law, a forensic psychiatrist testified Friday during her second murder trial.
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A widely prescribed antidepressant that Andrea Yates took in the months before she drowned her five children in 2001 had homicidal thoughts added recently to its list of rare adverse events. But the drug&#039;s manufacturer says it believes Effexor doesn&#039;t cause such phenomena.
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The case of a man who impersonated a firefighter to attack and sexually abuse a woman in her home came down to whether a jury believed he was too mentally ill to be held responsible.
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Andrea Yates' murder convictions for drowning her children should be overturned because the state's expert witness gave false testimony about working on a nonexistent episode of "Law and Order," her attorneys told a state appeals court Tuesday.
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A videotaped jail interview played for jurors Monday showed Andrea Yates weeping after she told a psychiatrist why she drowned her five children in a bathtub.
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A surgeon appears in court charged with the manslaughter of a patient who had attempted suicide.
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Robert Blake's murder trial resumed Tuesday after a holiday recess with a witness testifying that the actor's cries for help for his bleeding wife seemed insincere.
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A psychiatrist dealt a blow Friday to the insanity defense of a man accused of a dozen highway shootings, saying the suspect knew the difference between right and wrong.
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A summary of testimony from witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby:
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A medical examiner testifying in the assault trial of a former CIA contractor said Friday that an Afghan detainee the defendant interrogated probably died from a beating, but a defense expert said there's too little information to know the cause of death.
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A prominent doctor who sounded an early alarm about a widely used diabetes drug testified yesterday that he was intimidated by the manufacturer when he raised concerns about the drug's safety.
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The defense rested its case Thursday in Andrea Yates' second murder trial in the bathtub drowning deaths of her children.
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The defense in Andrea Yates&#039; murder trial rested Tuesday after her best friend tearfully told jurors that the woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub &quot;misses them terribly.&quot;
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Prosecutors wrapped up their case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley on Monday after a psychologist testified that it is not uncommon for adults who suffer trauma as children to repress memories of the experience.
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A witness in the trial of actor Chris Langham is recalled by the court after his evidence is contradicted.
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A psychiatrist is to examine whether a woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones is fit to stand trial.
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Relatives of a man who murdered a family of four testified Friday that his childhood was filled with abuse, but jurors deciding whether he should be executed also heard a witness describe being stabbed in his mouth, face and neck in another merciless attack the defendant confessed to.