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The defense team pressed for an outright dismissal of all charges arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally in january 2005 some three and a half years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply, but andrea yates would be granted a new trial. >> tonight she drowned her five children, was sentenced to spend the rers of her life in prison, but recently a texas appeals court overturned andrea yates' conviction. >> pending the new trial, the defense succeeded in having yates moved from the mountainview p...

>> on the whole i think they treated her pretty well. >> trial prep included community outreach. they did all they could to educate the public and change perceptions of both andrea yates and mental illness. >> there were six victims in this case, and one was andrea herself because of mental illness. >> by the second trial there had been research articles and talks and it became much more in the public varn abbing lar, particularly postpartum depression. >> in 2006, five years to the month after the tragedy, andrea yates' second trial commenced. the defense kept their arguments very specific. >...

Outright dismissal of all charges arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally, in january 2005, some 3 1/2 years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply but andrea yates would be granted a new trial. >> tonight, she drowned her five children, was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison, but recently a texas appeals court overturned andrea yates' conviction. >> pending the new trial, the defense succeeded in having yates moved from the mountain view prison unit to rusk state hospital. >> ho...

The defense team pressed for an outright dismissal of all charges arguing that a second trial would constitute double jeopardy. finally, in january 2005, some 3 1/2 years after the original conviction, the texas state supreme court issued an opinion. double jeopardy did not apply but andrea yates would be granted a new trial. >> tonight, she drowned her five children, was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison, but recently a texas appeals court overturned andrea yates' conviction. >> pending the new trial, the defense succeeded in having yates moved from the mountain view prison un...

>> reporter: mr. cain, mr. cain, jim acosta with cnn. are you vowing to stay in the race? >> we are reassessing and re-evaluating. >> reporter: are you staying in the race. >> we're re-evaluating and reassessing. >> reporter: how soon will you have a -- >> in the next several days. >> cain appeared on fox news. we should point out he routinely refuses to come on this program. somehow de he did find time to down with fox's neil cavuto. >> on ginger white, why would she say -- she's known you 13 years, and you say nonam more russ relationship, why would she say, out of the blue, he's n...