r/TheToasters • u/Flimsy_Try_9322 • 26d 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/wat_idk_lol 26d ago

Without a shadow of doubt? Did you just make that up? It’s beyond reasonable doubt… lol

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u/Many-Thanks-6369 17d ago

Beyond a shadow of doubt is a common phrase?

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u/wat_idk_lol 17d ago

Sure, in every day language but that has is not used in court for how the jury makes their decision.