1.   Before Yates took the stand, defense lawyers sought to bolster their insanity plea by calling psychiatrists who had examined Andrea Yates.

2.   A temporary insanity plea can keep the defendant out of jail -- although the alternative is likely a long stay in a mental hospital.

3.   Defense attorneys face obstacles in bringing most insanity pleas to trial, grappling with a public often skeptical of mental illness claims and a narrow legal definition of insanity.

4.   Fentress had confessed to the crime the day it happened, but was not required to testify in court because prosecutors had accepted his insanity plea.

5.   Her attorney, George Parnham, earlier had suggested he may use an insanity plea as his defense.

6.   He told detectives the truth, he says, before he knew the intricacies of insanity pleas.

7.   In her insanity plea, she said she thought she was saving them from burning in hell by killing them while they were still innocents.

8.   It was an insanity plea.

9.   Later, Furrow withdrew the insanity plea and entered a guilty plea.

10.   Pataki and Spitzer said the case had highlighted the need to change the laws governing insanity pleas and the confinement of mentally ill people who have committed crimes.