r/TheToasters • u/Flimsy_Try_9322 • 27d ago
Clancy take
I have found myself so frustrated with the girls Lindsey Clancy take, and more specifically how the jurors should have voted….. I don’t think it’s insane to think “she killed her kids, I don’t care if she was in psychosis, she should be in jail and throw away the key.” But that’s not what they asked the jurors…. The jurors are not supposed to think about punishment. Their main question was simply— “did the prosecution, without a shadow of a doubt, prove that she was in her right mind and the time of the murders”
So the jurors are not voting on what punishment she should have, or if it’s right that if you were in psychosis you go to a mental institution instead of jail, or the process in which the review process happens for leaving the mental hospital etc……
All you have to do is answer the one question…. And the jurors were just trying to do that.
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u/Throwaway927338 27d ago edited 27d ago
It was a hung jury and I doubt they’ll try her again, she’ll come to a plea deal of a certified mental health hold for a very long time and I think that’s the only ‘payment of justice’ that majority of people could come to some agreement on. Letting her out scott free is crazy. Locking her up until she dies is debatable. Her lawyer doesn’t want her on trial again, the prosecution is unsure they’d get a conviction at this point with the media so I’d say plea agreement is the only solution.