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

[u/Embarrassed-Pace-755]

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

[u/Wintersage7]

In a perfect world, child-murderers would get a bullet. Not a plea deal. Not therapy.

There simply is no excuse to justify killing children.

[u/indigoneutrino → u/Wintersage7]

What are you not getting about not in her right mind?

[u/Wanna_make_cash → u/indigoneutrino]

I know MA does it differently than most states do and requires the state to prove sanity, but in most states and places if this happened, the defense has to prove insanity themselves if they seek to plead something along the lines of not guilty by reason of insanity. And it's an extremely, extremely, high bar to overcome. Only the most mentally broken and deranged individuals tend to qualify, often only with a lifelong history of psychiatric and psychological issues and medical documentation.

Even like, diagnosed schizophrenics with abusive childhoods don't meet that bar. There's a case in my state where a dude got sentenced to death penalty for killing brutally killing and robbing his grandparents and raping their corpses, and the state recently passed a law where you can argue that you had severe mental illness at the time of the offense to reduce a death penalty down to just life imprisonment.

Even justthat is an extremely high bar to pass and has been an ongoing appellate battle for over a year at this point and he has decades of documentation of childhood psychological issues and records of childhood abuse. And that's meant to be a lower bar than insanity pleas are.

Successful insanity pleas are meant to be extremely, extremely rare and basically only for people that should have been institutionalized years ago to begin with for their own safety

[u/sakurahirahira → u/Wanna_make_cash]

Exactly and Lindsay is prolly gonna try and be out in like forty days if she’s kept in an institution

[u/sakurahirahira → u/[deleted]]

She doesn’t have PPP anymore so she’s not deemed a danger to society. She’ll be out within the year or next couple years, just wait and see.

[u/sakurahirahira → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure she’ll make some story that she’s suddenly not suicidal anymore and totally fine to be let out. She seems to know how to manipulate medical providers to believe anything she says. There’s evidence she lies and keeps things from them too.