Russell Yates, husband of Andrea Yates, is surrounded by reporters
January 7, 2002 as he enters the Criminal Courts building in downtown
Houston on the first day of jury selection in the capital murder trial
of the Clear Lake mother who drowned her five children in the family
bathtub. State District Judge Belinda Hill will oversee the process of
seating a 12-member jury to hear the capital murder case against Andrea
Yates, a former nurse and homemaker who could face a sentence of death
by lethal injection if convicted. REUTERS/Richard Carson

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