Andrea Yates wasn’t even in custody a week before 230th District Judge Belinda Hill of Houston imposed a stringent gag order preventing lawyers, police, investigators and witnesses involved in Yates’ capital murder case from talking publicly about it. Yates allegedly drowned her five young children on June 20 in the bathtub of her Clear Lake home. Charged in three of the deaths, Yates goes on trial on Jan. 7, 2001, in Hill’s court, where the gag order will get its full test.
But even before then, a defense attorney for accused murderer Robert Durst cited the Yates order when arguing for a similar order in another high-profile murder case.
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