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11-09-2005, 07:32 PM
Texas appeals court upholds ruling allowing new trial for Andrea Yates

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By Pam Easton
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:15 p.m. November 9, 2005

HOUSTON – The state's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that threw out Andrea Yates' murder convictions for drowning her children in a bathtub in 2001. Harris County Assistant District Attorney Alan Curry said the case will be retried or a plea bargain considered. Jurors rejected Yates' insanity defense in 2002 and found her guilty of two capital murder charges for the deaths of three of her five children.

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