Jones could not be reached for comment Wednesday. In a letter to Hill dated April 5, , Jones said he was the only juror not convinced about finding Yates guilty during jury deliberations. At one point, he said, he went to the bathroom for a few minutes to pray "and the understanding came to me.
At the same time, Yates also had been taken off the antipsychotic drug Haldol. Yates' attorneys filed a motion last year to make the letter a part of the record but the appellate court denied the request in March. Another juror wrote to the Houston Chronicle this week, saying Dietz's testimony played no role in determining Yates' fate. In a letter to the editor, juror No. On July 26, , a jury found Yates not guilty by reason of insanity.
Since that time, she has been committed to a state mental hospital in Texas. Russell Yates was supportive of his wife in the aftermath of the murders, blaming her behavior on severe mental illness and also criticizing her doctors for failing to properly treat her condition.
In turn, he was criticized for being controlling and for leaving his wife unsupervised at the time she killed their children, when he had been advised not to do so.
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She tells that to Dr. Dietz: A way out. The defense asked for a mistrial because of it, but the judge refused. The jury ultimately spared her from the death penalty. The defense argued that Yates, 40, who was under psychiatric care for postpartum depression, was insane at the time of the killings. The appeal cited 19 alleged errors from her trial, but the appeals court said that because the false testimony issue reversed the conviction, it was not ruling on the other matters.
Among other things, Yates attorneys had claimed that the Texas insanity standard was unconstitutional.
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