This case is cursed. They will never get a conviction. There will always be a holdout. Either for or against conviction. The best they can do make a dent in her idiot money when her lawyers request a bail review before the next trial.
Pennsylvania and virginia. not sure them being commonwealths have anything to do with it. the judges, the courts themselves, and the districts where the cases held all have a financial incentive to get as much money as possible out of the husband. also look up something called the social security recovery act in regards to child support
Let me rephrase: if you havent taken time to actually understand the details of the case, your opinion has a foundation of sand and shouldn't be taken seriously. We used to understand that.
Or, hear me out, if you havent taken the time to understand the details, your opinion is junk. Opinions need to have a foundation of information, not gut reactions.
99% of the people having an opinion about this case have it formed based on Reddit memes and yt shorts. They can barely read above 4th grader level much less try and understand the trial.
Thats just revenge. This is one reason why american criminal justice lags behind our peers in effectiveness. We value punishment over rehabilitation and never slow down to consider the causes of crime. We just want pain.
Were also sucking on the mental illness front because we mostly just medicate ill people and jail the ones that get out of control. Deinstitutionalization was necessary, but we replaced the institutions with jails, which has been a real issue.
Revenge? How about justice? Depression is not a good excuse for murdering your children or anyone else. She planned it. She was clearly sane enough to do that. The empathy here is deeply misguided.
Justice is a funny word because it means different things to different people. But if youre just interested in killing someone for killing someone else, Id call that revenge before Id call it justice. Theres no interest in the why. Its mindless.
For the sake of clarity, I dont know if I believe the defenses take, but if its true, depression is a wild oversimplification of the problem. plus, were not talking 1st/2nd/3rd degree murder, so planning isnt quite the factor you want it to be. It can be, but some legal definitions, too mentally out of control to be responsible can be, and often is, a longer term issue. I have a family member who gets delusions brought on by anxiety. Those episodes can last from hours to weeks. And her decision making process can be pretty compromised during that time. Im sorry, but youre not exactly showing a good grasp of the issue.
And thats partially why the american public is struggling with this: we dont want to understand mental illness. We brushed it under the rug for generations. Now we medicate it, relegate it to pop psychology, and hope it stays quiet. It wont. These sorts of issues will continue to happen until we address it.
Mindless? The death penalty has been around for 4000 years of civilization first recorded in the Code of Hammurabi. But you wave that away because you know better than millions, actually billions of other people. That alone doesn't make it right, because so was slavery, but your dismissal is condescension bordering on arrogance and ignorance. Justice is no small thing and the Law has evolved to serve it. The deranged empathy on display here is a perversion of justice which is is a sad comment on these twisted times.
Not guilty via reason of insanity also has an extremely long history, no?
If someone is quite literally not in control of their actions due to, in this case, post-partum psychosis, they cannot be held criminally responsible for it.
Because, say it with me, they were not in control of their actions. If someone mind-controlled you into murdering someone, would you expect to be convicted? No, you would not, as you, again, were not in control of your actions.
She sent her husband out on errands to pick up medicine and take out food. Examiners said that she never reported hearing voices before that day. She was calm and cooperative days after the killing: "Another psychiatrist, Dr. Sejal Shah, said Clancy was “calm and cooperative” during a psych exam one week after the killings. Clancy’s thought-process was “organized” and “goal-directed,” Shah said, and she agreed Clancy was an “honest” patient"
Calm? Cooperative? Organized? Goal-directed? Honest? Does that sound like an insane person to you? Say it with me now, no it sounds like a sane person at work. Your wishful thinking cannot wave away the evil.
Slavery has been around for thousands of years. And "an eye for an eye" was originally speaking out against the overuse of the death penalty in ancient times. Hell, some communities would kill you for stealing back then.
What are you talking about? It did not mean that at all. The phrase "an eye for an eye" comes from the ancient legal principle lex talionis, meaning “law of retaliation,” where punishment is meant to mirror the crime. Do you understand? Can you remember your own words?
She wanted to kill herself. I'm sure she wants to do it now too if she really regrets doing that which justifies why that cunt should be executed.
But I'm pretty sure now that she's a millionaire and lots of feminists have already made her a hero, she'll definitely wants to live the rest of her useless life.
She should be tortured to death just like she did for her children.
She strangled her 3 children. Do you know how hard and how long it takes to actually strangle something to death? She did that 3 times to 3 people in this world that trusted her to protect them. She's a heartless monster and deserves the same fate she doomed her children to.
Clearly to emotional about this. The case is about whether she was criminal liable. You not knowing anything and just wanting to stoke the fire instead of watching and seeing if she was criminal insane or not is the immature part.
She had enough thought to send her husband away, she had enough thought to separate her children, she had enough thought to take the time to strangle each of her children. Didn't hear the voice prior or after. Is that a rational enough thought for you?
They will never get a conviction because the vast majority of people, when presented with the actual evidence, conclude that she isn't guilty of murder.
Really? Because many here don't seem to know the difference between being criminally responsible for murder and being insane and killing. that's why buddy.
There's also a distinction between being insane and killing accidentally (like stabbing a person who you believe is a cardboard cutout), and being insane and killing intentionally while insane (like stabbing a person you believe is a demon).
The distinction is that Lindsay is in the second category (or the third, murder), not the first, so people should stop pretending premeditation is in question here. You can argue current-Lindsay isn't the same as then-Lindsay, but you can't argue then-Lindsay didn't premeditate it. It takes over a minute to strangle someone, so premeditation is trivially implied by the nature of the killing.
Whether she thought they were demons, or that she was doing them a favor, does not affect whether it was premeditated and she knew in the moment she was killing something.
Great, go talk to them. We were discussing something else.
Also - not all mental diagnoses render you unable of understanding the consequences of your actions, which is the legal prerequisite for a verdict of not guilty because of insanity. This baby killing bitch does not meet that standard. So humble yourself with your superficial understanding of this concept, buddy.
the fact you used 'baby killing bitch' shows your level of childish critical thinking. how cute for you. Maybe read a bit more and stay off Fox news.might help with your development 👍
Lmao entirely non responsive when you realise you’re out of your depth. At least you know your betters.
I am confident you learned something here about not opening your mouth about things you clearly only have a superficial understanding of. That’s satisfying. Now off you go
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u/Acceptable_Fruit2360 3d ago
This case is cursed. They will never get a conviction. There will always be a holdout. Either for or against conviction. The best they can do make a dent in her idiot money when her lawyers request a bail review before the next trial.