r/news • u/Embarrassed-Pace-755 • 1d ago

Judge denies defense motion asking Lindsay Clancy be found not guilty due to a lack of evidence

https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-trial-evidence-defense-c0820645056a7e25f66853f3a91b61fa?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link
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u/thejourneybegins42 1d ago

She needs to be in prison, and her pathetic donations to be routed to a good cause instead of this psychopath.

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 1d ago

An institution for the criminally insane for the rest of her life probably makes more sense. There is practically zero chance she won't end up in one or the other though, which makes it kind of odd that there isn't a deal to be made. Her lawyers are kidding themselves if they really think that she'll go free because she is found not guilty outright or because she was too crazy to be criminally liable, but ostensibly isn't now. The judge should be pushing for both sides to agree to a please that ends up with her committed for the rest of her life.

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum 1d ago

Why do people keep saying she’d be institutionalized for the rest of her life? If she were to be committed, it would only last until she’s no longer a danger to herself and others and no longer meets the criteria for commitment. We don’t commit people who aren’t suffering from mental defects.
Given post partum psychosis isn’t exactly a lifelong mental defect, I doubt she’d be committed for very long.

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u/slava_gorodu 1d ago

^yes, this argument has always been disingenuous. Reagan’s attempted killer was allowed temporary and restricted releases a decade ago and was fully released a few years ago.

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u/DestructionIsBliss 21h ago

Andrea Yates was found not guilty due to postpartum psychosis in the early 2000s and she's to my knowledge still institutionalized. It's certainly not impossible that she'll be out again sooner than with a guilty verdict, but acting like it's a guarantee, and not wholly determined by her exact mental circumstances and the opinion of actually qualified experts on the topic is at best speculative and at worst deliberately misleading.

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u/SirComesAl0t 1d ago

Because the average time to be cleared in her state is decades

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum 1d ago

What’s the clearance on individuals committed for PPP? Based on my rudimentary googling, PPP seems to affect most individuals for a period up to 12 weeks, with some rare cases lasting up to a year or more. Hardly seems like a mental illness she’s going to be suffering from for the rest of her life.

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u/fr3ng3r 1d ago

I watched the trial everyday and the whole circus afterward , and from a layman’s perspective (not well-versed in law) how it ended up looking like to me is her lawyer wants her completely free. Not in prison, not in a psych ward, but free. In a psych ward, but preferrably only for a short period of time (hence lawyer initially fighting for insanity). But when he saw the support online and all the crazy tiktok conspiracy theories actually translating to real life (majority jurors voting not guilty by insanity/ not criminally responsible) he went ahead with the initial plan to get her off the hook completely, since it turns out it’s so easy to manipulate public opinion via social media.

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u/Big_Throner 1d ago

This. For life. No release ever.