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Ok not to point fingers but Andrea Yates mom bringing the dog Andrea and Rusty bought her two christmases ago to her grandchildren’s grave and then saying the dog is the closest thing she has to a child while her two sons are at home refinishing her kitchen cabinets…I’m just saying Andreas mental illness is not the only dysfunction happening in this family

It’s sucks that the ALI rule was basically created for instances like the Andrea Yates case and then conservatives pushed us back to enshrining a worse version of the M’Naghten rule post Hinkley Assassination attempt

Also the rule where every juror in Texas has to be willing to inflict the Death Penalty if they are jurors in a possibly Death Penalty sentence case is deranged

I think there was supposed to be like an Enron joke in regards to Yates legal defense being a massive firm but I didn’t get it. 2004 jokes get 2004 work and all that rot

I am already bracing myself for the later sections that are gonna be “They didn’t have access to psychiatrists specializing in postpartum mania because of sexism” but it is crazy that even in 2001 in H O U S T O N. T E X A S. none of the multiple hospitals and psych offices had any resources for the Yates-Kennedys unless they literally had her institutionalized in a state hospital that’s so upsetting

Light and Love I don’t really need the sections in the husbands headspace…I get he was interviewed by O’Malley but I don’t need everyone’s POV throughout the incident especially if it’s just to be a explosive completionist narrative