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HOUSTON, Jan 9, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Texas judge has set a March 20 date for the retrial of the Houston woman accused of drowning her five children.
Andrea Yates, 41, had a previous conviction on charges of killing two of her children overturned in January 2005 because of false testimony by a state expert witness. She pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, a plea the jury in 2002 rejected when they suggested a sentence of life in prison, in an appearance Monday before state Judge Belinda Hill.
She is being retried on two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of three children. No charges have been filed regarding the deaths of the other two children.
Yates has been held in the Skyview Psychiatric Prison, but her attorney asked the defendant be moved to a state hospital where, he said, she would get better treatment, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Yates was allegedly suffering from postpartum depression when on June 20, 2001, she drowned her five children, ages 6 months to 7 years, in a bathtub.
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