BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: In Texas, a defense witness who testified in the Andrea Yates capital murder trial last week is expected back on the stand today. His testimony expected to contradict statements from a psychiatrist who last treated Yates before she drowned her five young children. Ed Lavandera has the latest from Houston, Texas.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Defense attorneys are on the final stretch of presenting their case to a Houston jury in the capital murder trial of Andrea Yates. It appears the defense will likely rest sometime on Wednesday, but back on the witness stand is the defense's medical expert Dr. Phillip Resnick, a psychiatrist from Case Western University. He has told this jury last Friday that Andrea Yates suffered a cruel dilemma, that convinced her that the wrong thing to do was actually right. Andrea Yates says that she drowned her five children because she wanted to send them to Heaven, and that she was willing to perish in hell if it that she could save her children. The prosecution will have their chance today to cross-examine this medical expert, and then later on this week, they'll also get their own chance to bring their own medical expert. Dr. Park Deets (ph), a psychiatrist from UCLA. And a lot of people watching this trial and observing this trial from around the country say that it's likely that the jury's decision could weigh heavily on which of these expert witnesses they choose to believe. Also defense attorneys telling us that Andrea Yates' mother, Karen Kennedy, will likely take the witness stand, but it's not exactly clear when she will do that. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Houston.
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