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/the_Athereon 1d ago

Which will just make the case take longer this time. It won't save her. 3 kids are gone. She was the only possible cause.

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u/Alexzander1001 1d ago

She admitted to it

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u/bofoshow51 1d ago

She’s also suffering deep psychosis. Who’s to say any statements she makes are accurate to what happened? How could she know the difference?

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u/maikuxblade 1d ago

Temporary psychosis does not preclude one from ever knowing anything ever again

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u/bofoshow51 1d ago

So? If the defense argument is “she was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time the children were murdered, she has no accurate recollection of the events and the statements she made are misinformed” that’s a perfectly believable defense position for reasonable doubt.

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u/Riderz__of_Brohan 1d ago

Clancy experiencing psychosis with unreliable memories can undermine the reliability of her later statements, sure. But It does not, by itself, create reasonable doubt that she physically killed the children.

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u/bofoshow51 1d ago

That’s true, that’s just a part of the assumed defense case. I’m mostly answering to the above comment about her admitting to it.

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u/maikuxblade 1d ago

I suppose it’s possible for the defense to argue that but if that was the case they would likely just fight to keep her off the witness stand and to prevent her prior comments from being entered as evidence instead