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Andrea. >> i can say that coming to a decision to divorce andrea was really a difficult decision, and it took me probably more time than it should have, but i finally came to the understanding that there's a difference between forgiveness and consequences. >> i talk to andrea probably four times a week. i long ago crossed the line from professionalism to personal involvement, and she -- she's a daughter, basically. and that's the way i treat andrea. >> george parnham and i and the mental health association of houston and some other people started the yates children's memorial fund in honor of ...

Argument was the questionable testimony given by park dietz, lead psychiatrist for the prosecution. >> there's never been an episode that has aired on "law & order" involving the park dietz testified about. we confronted park dietz about that, and he said he was mistaken. he must have been in vera. >> the appeals process would take months of meticulous preparation for multiple arguments, but in the end everything hinged on the dietz testimony. >> we had 19 points of error, and only one point was ever addressed, and that was point number one, and that was his testimony, and the case got reverse...

Capital murder, and it was a big case because she didn't get adequate mental health care treatment. so from that facet of my life, you know, i'm doing my best to try to redirect and say -- move in that direction to where i can help mentally ill people. >> hello. >> hi. >> how are you today? how many is that? >> four. >> four? >> see? one, two, three, four. >> i think if we can take the andrea yates, the generic andrea yates, the whole story of her kids, and we can move forward in the area of mental health care, i think we will have accomplished a lot. >> not everyone agrees. >> one of the thin...

The doctor as we'd successfully treated it in '99. if it happened again, we knew how to treat it. thinking ahead, we were thinking, if it happens at awe, it will be a relatively short spell, she'll be down at worst for a while. >> for the yates, adding to their family outweighed the risks. to ensure a healthy pregnancy, andrea yates went off all her medication. >> if you're on medication and you come on and off of it, a lot we think that it does something to your brain, and then if you get sick, you often get sicker, and then it becomes harder to treat the second, third, fourth time. >> follow...

Woman that killed my children. she obviously wasn't herself. and i think that will come out. ou know, i'm just completely surprised that people think that, well, because i defend andrea as being a wonderful mother, that she shouldn't be punished, that somehow, you know, i'm condoning her actions, you know? her actions were almost indescribably devastating to me and my family. >> he took it upon himself like it was some kind of badge of honor and on tv and giving interviews and all kinds of stuff which is macabre and then at the funeral he actually had a slide show of his kids. >> the funeral t...