Women in crime

 Andrea Pia Kennedy; formerly Andrea Yates; born July 2,  1964 confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June  20, 2001. Yates had been diagnosed postpartum depression and postpartum  psychosis and bipolar disorder. Yates attempted twice and was treated at  a psychiatric facility.The case placed the M’Naghten Rules, along with  the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close  public scrutiny in the United States. She was convicted of capital  murder. After the guilty verdict, but before sentencing, the State  abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony  by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses. She was sentenced to life in  prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was  overturned on appeal. On July 26, 2006, the Texas jury in her retrial  found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity. She was  consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, a  high-security mental health facility. Yates received medical until  January 2007, when she was moved to a low security state mental hospital  in Kerrville. 
 

Explain the general facts of the case and the holding while defining  guilty by reason of insanity, the M’Naghten Rule and the Irresistible  Impulse Test.
Yates was retried and found not guilty based on her defense that  she suffered from postpartum psychosis – a mental illness – a mitigating  factor in determining punishment. Do you agree with this as a valid  defense?  Support with empirical research only, not your opinion.  Incorporate as much material as applicable from class and 2 other  outside sources.
The essay must be APA format, at least 3 pages in length in actual  content, double-spaced, using 12-point font with 1-inch margins and  include at least 3 legitimate sources. You can use the  Library  Database system to search articles/ newspaper articles.  Wikipedia,  blogs, websites, and other nefarious sources of dubious credibility are  not acceptable sources. MUST HAVE IN TEXT CITATIONS THAT MATCH REFERENCES