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49 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 847 (2016-2017)
Beyond the Andrea Yates Verdict: Mental Health and the Law

handle is hein.journals/text49 and id is 887 raw text is: BEYOND THE ANDREA YATES VERDICT: MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW George Parnham' I. MISSION STATEMENT ...................................... 847 II. MENTAL HEALTH AND THE FORENSIC EXPERT.. ................ 847 Ill. EXPERT INSANITY, A.K.A. EXPERTS' INSANITY ....... ........... 848 IV. INSANITY STANDARDS ...................................... 849 V. FAMILIARITY WITH MENTAL ILLNESS ......................... 851 VI. THROUGH THE EYES OF ................................... 852 VII. PIERCING THE VEIL OF PSYCHOBABBLE ..................... 852 Vi. OTHER POSSIBLE AREAS OF EXPLORATION ON CROSS-EXAMINATION ............................... 854 IX. ADDITIONAL TIPS.......................................... 855 X. ADDENDUM ............................................... 855 XI. THE CASE .......................................... ...... 857 XII. A DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES ...................................... 858 This Article is intended to emphasize the importance of mental health in the criminal justice system, with particular attention being paid to the failures within the system in Andrea Pia Yates v. State of Texas.i 1. MISSION STATEMENT 1. To promote a greater awareness of and appreciation for mental illness as a real illness. 2. To impact the legislative process for the purpose of producing a reformed and consistent definition of the insanity standard, which presently exists in various forms in the United States. 3. To bring mental health back into the courtroom equation. H. MENTAL HEALTH AND THE FORENSIC EXPERT An undeniable trend exists within the court systems of this country: to lessen the importance of mental health medicine in the judicial trial processes and replace it with a sanitized but artificial version of logical explanations of the actions of the mentally ill. There is no question that forensic psychiatry * Criminal Defense Attorney, Parnharn & Associates, Houston, Texas. J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1970; B.S., Loyola University, New Orleans, 1963. 1. See Yates v. State, 171 S.W.3d 215 (Tex. App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 2005, pet. ref d). 847

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