SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A state appeals court has upheld the second-degree murder convictions of an Oakland woman who authorities say threw her three young sons into San Francisco Bay five years ago.

A jury convicted LaShuan Harris of three counts of second-degree murder in 2007. A judge later declared her criminally insane and ordered her hospitalized for 25 years to life. Authorities say Harris, who was 23 at the time of the killings, reported hearing voices telling her to send the kids to heaven.

The First District Court of Appeal said on Wednesday that prosecutors should not have been allowed to have two mental health experts examine Harris. Those experts concluded that she knew her children would drown.

But the court said those exams did not affect the jury's verdict.

Harris's attorney, Neoma Kenwood, says she plans to appeal.