Yeah, I read about this, just this morning.
Quote:
...her legal team vowed to appeal on the grounds a prosecution expert witness had given damning, but false evidence during the trial.
Her lawyers argued at a Houston appeal court that psychiatrist Park Dietz misled the court during Yates' murder trial. Dietz had testified that he consulted on an episode of the popular TV show Law & Order, in which a woman who drowned her children is found innocent by reason of insanity.
No such episode existed, they said, but the mere suggestion of it could have planted doubts in the jurors' minds.
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May the gods deliver us from trial lawyers.
A woman that drowns her 5 children gets her conviction overturned because of an episode of, or rather the
lack of an episode of Law and Order?