verdict. among the many points of argument was the questionable testimony given by park dietz, lead psychitrist for the prosecution. there s never been an episode that is aired on law & order involving the park zitz testified about. we confronted him about that 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 reversed. so we started back to trial. i thought it was great that mrs. yates would have another opportunity to have her case heard. dr. dietz in my view made an honest mistake. the reversal, though a major
had swung to, like, maybe neutral. and neutral in the sense that she should be convicted. she should go to jail but the tire behind the after a month of testimony, the jury deliberated for 13 hours over three days. the jury after three days of deliberation wanted to see the pictures of the children. and about 30 minutes later, we had two buzzers. and they had reached a verdict. and some of the jurors were crying and the reason they asked for the pictures, they took two minutes in silence. of each child in memory of that child s legacy. i thought that was probably the
in the punishment phase of the trial, the jury sided with the defense and rejected the death penalty. andrea yates was sentenced to life in prison. yeah. i never thought about losing. i went back in the back with andrea and she said, what happens now? and i said, don t worry, andrea. you will be fine. patted her on the knee and then came back and heard the rumbles in the courtroom about the testimony. the law & order testimony. the sentencing phase was barely over before questions arose about the dietz testimony. spread was spreading the episode did not exist. the defense had new hope. we were at the office looking through the scripts on the internet trying to come up with titles of shows that could have reflected that a law & order show existed about a woman that drowned the kids and couldn t
saying we want big gains in the legislature this years. we re speaking as if cory booker is a should in fo-in. but polone doesn t necessarily want to give up a safe house seat. there could be the opportunity for a primary. what do you know? well, so if you had the concurrent elections this november, i think there s a strong potential there, the state party committees, and both dietz with the democratic are being elected today in the primary in new jersey. those committees would then the sort of polone side would say there s a lot of resentment within the democratic establishment. is that real? it is, but if you look at a poll, it s a landslide. cory booker has so much popular
and getting sued successfully. bernie, your thoughts. i m all for first amendment rights, but ted is wrong and he knows it. only because he hasn t paid his contractors that he s talking like this. my client, mr. dietz, he is on page 2 of the new york post today because he got defamed in this lawsuit. now it s all over the place. now he ll lose business. people in his line of work survive because of word of mouth. now he s accused of stealing some jewelry inside the house. greta: goss it make adoes ita difference if it s true? there s something about opinion. you can say someone i don t like the work that s done, it s not done well. it s another thing you can be a little more direct and hurt their business. i think you ll find that truth is a defense, so if this woman believes there was shoddy work done and she can show that there was shoddy work done or quite naturally, she has a right to complain in any forum she