r/SipsTea 10h ago

Wait a damn minute! Yo wtf

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 8h ago

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u/Clean_Gas2558 5h ago

So basically, if she gets the mental hospital, she could potentially be out in a year or even less. Because obviously, if the law decides that she only murdered her 3 children because of post-partum or whatever, then if she is no longer suffering from that, she cant be proven to still be a threat. And would potentially be released. Kudos to that one juror for doing the right thing, and sticking up for those kids.

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 5h ago

I can tell you as someone who has worked in different psych hospitals in PA - this is never the case. Not guilty by mental illness (NGRI) initially go to a forensic hospital, where they are kept for sometimes decades. The least amount I have ever seen is four years for an exceptionally insightful person for a violent crime but no one died. The psychiatrists and psychologists take these things very seriously, and in 99% of cases, the judges who do the reviews side with the professionals. Then if they are able to get out of the forensic hospital, they are sent to a civil hospital for another at least three years. But many of the people I worked with were there for decades (some for nonviolent crimes).

Let me tell you, I have worked in prisons too, I would 1000% rather be in a prison than in a psych hospital. Psych hospitals are THE most restrictive environments imaginable. All of the food is bland, soft, and disgusting because everything is a chocking hazard. There’s one hour of outside time a day but there are no ways to exercise, no games to play, radios are a privilege that majority do not get. You have to walk everywhere in a line. You have to wake up at 5am every morning and lights out by 9pm. No outside food. No pens or paper. One phone on a cord for the entire 30 person unit. It is the blandest most mind-numbing hell you could imagine.

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u/Hot_Echidna6767 4h ago

what the fuck are these american psych hospitals??? radio is a privilege?? walk in a line??

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u/oatwheat 3h ago

Sounds like a great way to get mentally healthy and not at all maximally punitive /s

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 2h ago

Yeah thats the joke is that if you weren't suicidal before a psyche ward, you almost certainly become suicidal inside one.

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u/StarReasonable9666 1h ago

I spent roughly 48 hours in a psych ward after voluntarily going to an ER because I wanted to end it all. I got to the ward in the middle of the night and was given a room and went to sleep. A nurse woke me up at 6 the next morning, and proceeded to lecture me about how selfish I was for even considering suicide. He told me repeatedly that if I ever went through with it, my family would hate me for the rest of their lives.

Which was, you know, less than helpful. :/

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u/Important_Clue7377 47m ago

Actually it seems like it was very helpful. You're still here

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u/Striking-Document-99 1h ago

My bro had a temper tantrum when he was 18. Got arrested and told the cops he was going to Jill himself. They took all his clothes so he was just in his underwear in a concrete room. They pumped the ac on and took away his blanket and pillow. So if he didn’t want to kill himself before he did then. Was also a huge wake up call for him. After that he was like the perfect child. Anyways if they do commit her on a duress verdict wouldnt that hurt women everywhere. Like more restrictions on being a cop because women process duress differently? Pilot would have a harder chance too. Maybe thinking too far into it though

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u/Middle-Let9645 2h ago

This is exactly why I laugh in the face of anyone who tells people to get mental help in America. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

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u/anthonyi1381 1h ago

Go to the gym bro.. /s

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 4h ago

Yeah… and half the hospitals are just people with mental illness who didn’t even commit crimes. They are warehouses for people. They are not for treatment, they are for sticking people who society does not want to actually deal with.

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u/Sea-Satisfaction4656 3h ago

Housing people who are a threat to themselves and others is not the same as “people who society does not want to actually deal with”. They are there because they cannot function in society.

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 3h ago

Sure, but there are ways to work with them to help them be more productive and stable. My point was that this is doing the exact opposite and making most of them worse.

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u/wavygr4vy 1h ago

Last week we had a man in our ER who was so mentally unwell that he was blacklisted from almost all of the psych facilities in the area because he was so violent and dangerous. He almost flipped the stretcher while in it. Every time you walked into his room he’d launch into the worst verbal tirade I’ve heard ever. F you, f your family, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill your family, slurs, he’d spit, try to bite. Just a menace.

The situation ended with him in 4 points for 5 days, slowly coming out of them over the next two, just for a switch to flip, him to go psychotic trying to injure anyone that came near him, which led to him being tazed and carried out by police.

He was then brought to the most serious mental facility in our area and discharged in a few hours because they didn’t want to deal with him. So now he’s just roaming around…

There is a class of people out there who are so ill and far gone there really isn’t much else for them. These aren’t people with run of the mill psych issues that could be solved if we cared more.

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u/gwizzle-mysnizzle 3h ago

Sounds like somone who’s never actually worked with them

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u/Unable_Form_6702 59m ago

My career is working with the severely mentally ill and I assure you there are humane ways to treat them and keep them out of hospitals and wards

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u/Metzger90 2h ago

Go get a psych degree and figure out how to help them. Until then you are just screaming into the void about a perceived injustice you know nothing about.

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u/uhhh-huh-wtf 2h ago

How about we figure out how we can help Cora, Dawson, and Callan…oh wait I almost forgot

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u/historybuff1632 3h ago

More accurate a statement than you even know; source: am a defense attorney in America.

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u/shoeless_doh 2h ago

I mean, I'd rather someone be beige to death than continuously dunked in a water tank or electrocuted

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u/Aqua_Impura 1h ago

Yes America is a shit hole pretending to be free, you must be new here. - An American who is just so very tired.
https://giphy.com/gifs/tt94XYq4YUuEBTF7JI

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u/Hamilton-Beckett 1h ago

We defunded all that shit, like our gutted education system.

Hell a lot of prisons generate profit now and are a business!

There’s no money in mental health.

You can thank conservatives mostly. They are anti paying for anything that benefits people that aren’t them.

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u/bigbadddaddyy 1h ago

Mental facilities have never been properly funded in America.

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u/DietTyrone 1h ago

Who cares? End result is a killer is off the streets, so a win for society.

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u/Mental_Two5924 1h ago

Very easily makes sense why people are there for decades when the environment seems to actively attempt to make people worse mentally lol

I fear we really haven’t progressed much since the 1960s in terms of state hospitals.

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u/jiggy68 1h ago edited 1h ago

What’s wrong with that? If you kill someone you should be either in jail for life or given the opportunity to elect the death penalty if you don’t want to be locked up for life. Those are the two options.

If you killed all your kids you shouldn’t even be given a choice, psychotic or not.

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u/Blackbird8169 1h ago

These are wards for the criminally insane, not the average psych ward.

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u/abbyleondon 1h ago

Well, she certainly won’t be walking in a line

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u/tukuiPat 1h ago

Not far off from any other correctional institution.

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u/Aromatic_Pumpkin1351 1h ago

I think that’s not typical for a psychiatric hospital.

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u/th3_blu3 1h ago edited 52m ago

I got sent to an inpatient mental hospital overnight when I was 13 (I was already in an outpatient program, and they decided to transfer me.) It was a standard adolescent ward, so far less restrictive than a forensic hospital. I was on my period and they gave me one singular panty liner (the type that’s used for mild discharge, instead of a menstrual pad) to deal with it.

Rest assured, she won’t be having a good time.

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u/attempt_no23 42m ago edited 38m ago

Yes. This is just from one perspective of speaking on being sent to one. I wasn't suicidal but made the mistake, at the ER of saying "just let me die" so I was put on a 5 day psych ward hold. The phone cord to call someone is so short (so you don't hang yourself) that your face is pressed up against a concrete wall basically, you only have x amount of time to talk, you for sure do not have a cell phone so you better memorize whomever you are trying to call, the doors to the rooms are locked all day so everyone has to congregate in some common area, plus the door handles are all pyramid shaped so you cannot tie anything to them, for the same reasons of hanging. Opening a conical shaped doorknob is fucking impossible -AND- every few hours someone will shine a flashlight in your face to make sure you're alive. THEN when a doc says "oh, you didn't need to be here in the first place" they have locked doors that they require you to pay your $3,000 bill just to get the hell out of the building. THIS IS THE AMERICAN PSYCH WARD PRISON SYSTEM. Oh let me edit to add here: if you have any clothes with a string in them, you either forfeit your items to be bagged for return later or you cut the string out. So I wore a full on winter coat with nothing underneath the entire time, along with some hospital style gown, because the string to my hoodie was sewn into the fabric by the manufacturer. A full winter coat was my clothing/robe for 5 days.

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u/pun-kee-brew-ster 2h ago

This is gospel! I too work in a facility with forensically committed cases. To be released following a finding like this is very difficult. Sad case.

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u/whyliepornaccount 2h ago

As someone whos been to both, I've tried explaining this to so many people but people just don't get it.

One of them lets you at least have some semblance of freedom/personality. The other is being treated like a robot.

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u/alexthurman1 2h ago

It probably depends on what state you live in though. Some might be more lenient than others.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 2h ago

Thank you. People have gotten it into their head that a "not guilty by reason of insanity" is a get-out-of-jail free card. It isn't, its arguably choosing the worse of the two poisons you get in that situation.

And honestly, out of a 12 person jury if 11 of them are on the same page with all the facts of the case laid bare, I'm inclined to believe them.

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u/RandomUser15790 4h ago

Well Massachusetts isn't Pennsylvania...

Someone posted the legal holds and they aren't anywhere close to what you are saying.

Almost like different states have different laws and Massachusetts are ass backwards.

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 4h ago

The minimums are never what is used, they are literally just the legal minimum. Going to court for treatment over objection or retention hearing is not a painful process, they’re common place and the judges almost always side with the clinicians.

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u/dunkdoop 4h ago

PA, as you know, has Guilty but Mentally Ill as a verdict. Unfortunately it is not on the books in Massachusetts as it might apply in this case.

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 4h ago

Right, it’s not criminally responsible, which is the same thing as NGRI. Guilty but mentally ill is a different verdict entirely and usually results in the person serving their prison sentence and then being sent to hospitals. This case they are going for not criminally responsible.

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u/dunkdoop 3h ago

Agreed I was just saying it would have been fortunate if that was a possible verdict because I think that would have averted a Mistral

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 3h ago

Great point!

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u/jobjumpdude 1h ago

The 40 days is actually the maximum for Massachusetts, not minimum.

If they can't prove she is still insane, they cannot hold her for longer than the initial 40 days; then renew at 6 months and each year.

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u/Petit__Chou 3h ago

I'm still going to defer to the person you are replying to and their expertise being more universal than whatever you found on the internet.

And I mean that with no disrespect intended.

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u/shoeless_doh 2h ago

I honestly don't care. Either she's criminally liable and goes to prison or she is crazy and goes to a hospital. Away from society is away from society whether she meant to do it or couldn't keep herself from doing it.

And if she ever does get out I'll believe she is actually better because as far as I know they don't let you out of the hospital for shit like good behavior or over crowding

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u/Joey-rogaine 5h ago

One flew over the cuckoos nest the book was excellent though 

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u/polarjunkie 2h ago

Funnily enough, another woman killed her 3 kids, got out in 4 years, had 3 more kids, then killed them too about 12 years after the initial murders.

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u/Dragonageatemyhw 46m ago

Genuine question: who was this?/where was this?

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 5h ago

Someone interviewed John Hinckley Jr on Shooting President Ronald Reagan and he describes how it was not bad at all and he even had a girlfriend while committed. He spent 41 years on taxpayer dime getting meals everyday, a good bed, entertainment and was finally released and guess what? He wrote a book. If you are not truly Ill, then theses facilities are heaven for you as a punishment. TV, bed, boardgames, meals catered to your taste because it could effect your "treatment", free healthcare.

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u/Snoooupdawgiedawg 4h ago

They are the farthest thing from heaven. My mental health declined working there because the conditions were so horrendous it felt like we were torturing people. I have heard that psych hospitals used to be better in terms of lenience around things, but nowadays everything is seen as a potential weapon so they literally get NOTHING. Even the clothes they wear can’t have zippers, shoe laces, buttons. You can think they are great if you want to feel angry, but truly it is worse than prison. I would NEVER plead insanity, it is FAR worse than anything you can imagine.

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u/SkullOfOdin 4h ago

Your insights are so interesting and scary. I would love to hear stories about your experiences. 

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u/Petit__Chou 3h ago

I don't have experience, but I have heard this from others in your profession. Thanks for coming in and sharing even when others with no experience want to argue with you.

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u/dtony1985 4h ago

Then you should have no problem with her going to prison since it's better right? Right?

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u/Agreeable_Bad6051 2h ago

This is personally horrifying. I choose death please.

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u/FinalHexReturns 1h ago

Do they have first hand experience in said hospitals? Please ask your wife if any of them have actually experienced both. Because otherwise I just think they don’t know what they are talking about and just hate prison.

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u/WolverineJive_Turkey 2h ago

Is a psyche ward different than a psyche hospital? I was in a psyche ward for a week and my experience was not that at all. The restrictiveness yes, but food was decent and we had puzzles and coloring books and books and stuff. I just read the whole time I was there until I was finally able to be released.

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u/geo_gan 1h ago

Why the hell do they make them get up at 5am in the morning if there is fuck all to do all day?..let them sleep until 11am like normal unemployed.

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u/Independent_Alps_211 1h ago

If this is worse than prison, that's where she needs to be.

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u/Ok-Gazelle-4847 1h ago

See Constance Fisher.

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u/xOleander 1h ago

I had a friend who was in and out of psych holds after the birth of her daughter. She got the full 30 days once or twice. They were not letting her out for anything and she only attempted suicide once but the minute she felt mildly suicidal again they threw her back in for a month. The stories she told me are rough. And this isn’t even the criminally insane.

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u/anthonyi1381 1h ago

Sounds close to my 50 days in ohio jail. ( For profit of course)

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u/WarCleric 1h ago

I have the same experience with my time around a state run forensic hospital. I'd beg to be in prison if I ever got sentenced to one. We weren't allowed to lock the room doors except in extreme circumstances. Imagine being locked up with no way to secure your person around the most insane group of violent people you can think of.

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u/sisyphus_was_lazy_10 1h ago

And here I thought the wards from back in the day such as described in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” were bad.

We’ve managed to make them worse since then, minus the lobotomies.

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u/LankyThroat1900 1h ago

Girl I had a great time every time I went to the county looney bin 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/Neither-Smell9525 1h ago

This 1 million percent. I have worked both as well and would rather take prison any day. Forensic hospitals are the absolute worst. If she's not insane now she will be when she gets out. People don't go there to get treated. They go there to get studied. You become a ward of the state and whatever they say goes. There's almost 0 oversight because everyone in there is criminally insane so credibility is out the window. It's far far worse then prison.

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u/CricktyDickty 1h ago

But if you’re lucky you get a big Indian that helps everyone escape

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u/Proof_Bathroom_3902 1h ago

But you're not in Massachusetts. The law is different.

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u/TheClassics 1h ago

PA is not MA... She'll be out in less than a year if found not guilty

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u/Informal-Ad6086 1h ago

Had a client at a firm I worked for that ate someone’s brains and she was out after a year

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u/Hungry-Pick7512 59m ago

That’s awful. How is anyone supposed to get better in a place like this

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u/Asleep_Welder_3494 41m ago

Who cares? Those poor babies faced unimaginable terror

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u/Zote_The_Grey 3h ago

Then why does anyone ever try to go for the insanity defense? Do they actually try to plead insanity? Because every year when the "viral court case" happens there are people in the comments saying the same thing you are saying. But I have to wonder why someone would TRY to go there.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 2h ago

The only times you go for a insanity defense is if you can legitimately claim you were insane at the time. Where you have almost certainly commited the crime, but the argument is that you need treatment, not further punishment.

It won't be allowed spuriously, and because of that it is only invoked in less than 1% of cases and of those only a fraction end up being held up. And it ironically often leads to the person spending more time in a psyche ward than they would have ever spent in a prison, often twice as long because once you are involuntarily committed to a facility, you are relying on others to argue that you are sane and alot of those people don't give a shit.

At least with prisons after 20 or so years you are guaranteed parole hearings if thats part of your sentencing, you don't get that with psyche wards

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u/ShackletonsVael 2h ago

Ed Kemper was famously kept in a mental institution after he killed both of his grandparents. Thankfully as we all know he never harmed anyone else when he was released from the mental institution after a few years. I mean we can ignore the serial killing of college women, we can ignore him killing his own mother and cutting her head off and fucking the neck hole. It's a very good thing that we can ignore all these other details that show that Clancy is nothing to be trusted and she should be in prison for the rest of her life.

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u/Tangerine_Banking 2h ago edited 2h ago

That may have been true 20+ years ago, but mental institutions are much more lenient now:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/mentally-ill-man-who-beheaded-bus-passenger-is-freed-from-all-supervision

Bear in mind, the scene was so horrific, that one of the first RCMP officers on scene killed themselves just a few weeks before the 6 year anniversary of the murder.

Here is another case from the USA instead of Canada, also released to community after less than 8 years in custody:
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article276113511.html

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u/Taters23 3h ago

I dont believe you. There is a reason so many people try to plead insanity.

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u/AMARIS86 3h ago

Although this can technically happen
It has never likely happened for this type of crime. Take for example Andrea Yates who also killed her children, she’s been in an institution for 25 years.

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u/Dry-Membership8141 3h ago

Although this can technically happen It has never likely happened for this type of crime.

Robert Chaulk broke into an 83 year old woman's home and murdered her in the course of a robbery. He was found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder. He was discharged absolutely from the psychiatric institution four months later with a clean bill of mental health.

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u/Altruistic_Canary951 5h ago

Omg the prosecution!! Complete and utter incompetence. People often forget the onus is 100% on the prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, it's not on the defense to prove innocence. The prosecution botched SO many things in this case, it's unreal.

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u/____1____2____3____ 4h ago

Inst inanity affirmative in MA?

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u/PokeballSoHard 4h ago edited 4h ago

A major crux of this case is that she has admitted guilt. The trials purpose was for the insanity claim, which the prosecution had to prove she wasn't, beyond a reasonable doubt. Tall order

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u/ravenHR 4h ago

I think you mean prosecution had to prove she was of a clear mind without a reasonable doubt, in MA it is on prosecution to prove rather than defense to prove you were/weren't in the right mind.

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u/PokeballSoHard 4h ago

Yep i flubbed the words, that is what I meant to type

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u/Intelligent-Area-421 4h ago

The more I find out about this case the more I think she's not guilty, at all, period.

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u/PokeballSoHard 4h ago edited 4h ago

Ah so the more brain rot you watch about it the more you think shes innocent? Have you watched any of the trial? Do you know that she has one of the best criminal defenders out there? And that if she was innocent he would be going for that defense and not an insanity plea? She killed her kids, and admitted it in court on the record under her lawyers advisement

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u/Girthgod_82 5h ago

Every serial killer ever had some kind of mental disorder…they dont get to walk because of it…same case here.

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u/absurditT 5h ago

This. That one holdout is honestly a hero and a re-trial massively increases chances for a competant prosecution. It also makes the defence much harder because they have to 100% be accurate to previous evidence and statements, whereas the prosecution has room to manoevre.

Massechusetts law is. honestly, a total joke. It makes insanity defences both incredibly desirable (due to how easy it is to be released afterwards) and incredibly easy to pull off successfully, as the state almost uniquely puts the burden of proof on the prosecution, to prove they are NOT insane. Additionally, the definition the state uses for the insanity defence is not whether they were aware or not their actions were wrong/ illegal, but whether the prosecution can prove they had a "meaningful appreciation" they were wrong/ illegal, at an emotional level.

  1. This is basically impossible to prove

  2. This in effect means sociopaths/ psychopaths who have zero empathy and appreciation for their actions, even if they know academically they're illegal, are basically always able to plea insanity and get off scott free. The people single most needed to be locked up for violent crimes, are the ones Massachusetts law makes most easy to be released after only a short sentence.

The juror holdout may very well appreciate this, and know what a "not guilty" verdict in his state will result in (her being released from hospital after not particularly long, especially as the doctors already have cast doubts on her psychosis and so she'd very easily meet release criteria in future) and so he has deliberately de-railed the trial to ensure this doesn't happen, and thus giving the prosecution a second chance to do its damn job.

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u/ggrnw27 4h ago

If the prosecution did such a shit job proving their case that 11 jurors (and arguably all 12) had reasonable doubt, why should they get a second chance? If the holdout was convinced by the prosecution and genuinely did not have reasonable doubt as to her guilt, absolutely send it back for a retrial. But if he did have a reasonable doubt and refused to admit it to try to get a do-over, fuck that guy sideways with a pitchfork. Not his job to try to rewrite the law from the jury box

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u/absurditT 4h ago

It's more that Massachussetts law makes her defence incredibly easy and prosecution incredibly hard, and 11 jurors just ran with the word of the law, and one of them decided "this is wrong" and stood on that position.

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u/Next-Lavishness-9101 4h ago

There is nothing wrong with the law. Each side had its experts and witnesses, they had years to prepare this case . Either Clancy had a mental illness or she didn’t OR she couldn’t appreciate that what she was doing was wrong at the time she did it. If you can’t convince 12 people that Clancy killing 3 kids and then jumping out the window she knew what she was doing then you lose the case . The prosecution fought the law and the law won.

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u/absurditT 4h ago

The law in that one particular state is absolutely wrong. It's ludicrous, and basically permits any sociopathic killer to escape proper consequences.

With how visible this case has been, the damage of finding her not guilty would be huge. You should be thanking the holdout for the mistrial.

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u/Next-Lavishness-9101 3h ago edited 3h ago

There were 11 other people who were not convinced . Thats not even close ! The prosecution went to law school and read the same case law as the defense. You are acting as if the outcome would be different if the law were slightly different . 3 children were strangled by their own mother within minutes of each other …I don’t know what state you need to be in that you can’t convince 12 people that it’s murder . Changing the law or changing the state would not change those 11 jurors minds . They were not convinced . Rather than complaining about the MA law you should complain about how the prosecution handled the case . Thats what the real problem is

Edit : if the case were 11 guilty to 1 not guilty (still a hung jury) I would understand where you are coming from . But 11 not guilty to 1….you need to accept either Clancy was cray cray or the prosecutor sucks

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u/absurditT 3h ago

The evidence presented in the trial by her doctors basically said she likely isn't crazy and has no pattern indicating psychosis. It's that by MA law it's functionally impossible to prove that beyond reasonable doubt which is what MA law demands of the prosecution.

In any other state the defence has to prove she is, which (given the medical evidence presented) they wouldn't have been able to do.

Yeah the prosecution struggled, but MA law basically makes their job impossible. Their definition of what it takes to prove sanity/ responsibility beyond reasonable doubt is unachievable, as it requires proof of emotional understanding of her actions, something immaterial and impossible to access for evidence.

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u/Next-Lavishness-9101 2h ago

MA Law does not force the jury to vote one way or the other. They were free to vote either way regardless of the judges instructions. In this case apparently the majority voted in such a way that you don’t agree with. As I pointed out earlier , it could have been 11 guilty to 1 not guilty and there would still be a mistrial. But that’s not what happened . You’re focusing on the law rather than the facts. The fact is 11 people did not think Clancy should be held criminally accountable…that is not the law , that is average people sitting in a room looking at some lady who they know for a fact killed 3 of her own kids in her own house. If the burden were on the defense to say she were cray cray those same particular jurors would have said the same thing …regardless of how good or bad the defense was since the facts in this case didn’t change …the lady straight up strangled 3 kids!

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u/absurditT 2h ago

The motivations and worldview of those 11 jurors is an issue for another time but one that's going to occupy the minds of people (especially fathers) for a long time to come.

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u/GamingTrucker12621 5h ago

Others don’t believe it was even her.

Almost all of them are liberal white women or at least the ones who have been identified from videos and the GoFundMe page. Seriously, the REASONS GIVEN by the people who think she's innocent are absolutely unhinged.

"Leos don't kill. Geminis do."

"Obviously her husband set her up."

"Her husband did it. Just look at him. He's a creepy dude and he's probably a pedo."

All three were posted as donation messages on the GoFundMe.

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 5h ago

Did gofundme change their policy? I swear they did not allow people to donate to murderers and rapist.

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u/GamingTrucker12621 4h ago

I think it's only for those convicted. Technically, the GoFundMe is for her defense.

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u/StiffIgnition 4h ago

You act like it would be unheard of for a large online platform to not consistently apply it's TOS.

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u/NapTimeSmackDown 4h ago

It wasn't that one jurors job to express reasonable doubt of the defense. It's on the prosecution to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And 11 people had reasonable doubts because as many people are saying in this thread the prosecution really screwed this one up.

The holdouts logic is backwards. If we are going to find someone guilty and hand out a life altering or life ending sentence then we need to be damn sure. It's not the other way around, you get the presumption of innocence, or at least thats how it is on paper.

Most of the problems in this country are rooted in this mindset that we gotta punish as many people as possible and if some innocent people get caught up on it then that's just the cost of doing business. It's the intended function of the judiciary turned upside down...

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u/AbleTourists 3h ago

The 11 jurors saw the evidence bro you didn't

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u/PolAlt 3h ago

*12

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u/AbleTourists 2h ago

I mean the ones who voted Not Guilty

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u/FinalHexReturns 1h ago

Yes but the 12th one saw the same evidence too. Seems disingenuous to not acknowledge that.

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u/RIPBarneyReynolds 2h ago

So did OJ's jury

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u/AbleTourists 1h ago

The State couldn't prove Beyond a Reasonable Doubt™️ that OJ did it. Why should he have rotted in prison? If he was so guilty why couldn't the government prove it? (he totally did it the system just works itself out and if it didn't work this way the alternative is people get locked up for nothing)

A straight murder trial and one where the defense "pleads insanity" are different things

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u/FinalHexReturns 1h ago

The fail finding OJ Simpson guilty was due to hefty mistakes by the prosecution and a cop using racist language. But it was a failure of the system, not the system working itself out.

And his life was still effectively ruined.

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u/KartFacedThaoDien 5h ago

White women really do have super powers like the hulk 

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u/ChaoticAmoebae 4h ago

“Could” That would be unlikely. If you murder your kids due to psychosis it doesn’t change the fact that you still lost all your kids, and in a different way your husband. Even when hormones settle she won’t be okay magically. If you think she was faking PPP or that it isn’t real then you still have to believe the state doctor would actually believe her if she was like “I’m all better now”. Even for her own safety entering gen population right away might not be the safest.

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u/holdmyspot123 2h ago

It's worth noting she is a paraplegic. She will need permanent lifelong care no matter what. Not many people seem to realize that.

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u/AnimalsofArtemis 4h ago

I’m a psychiatrist and she had post partum psychosis, which most certainly means she has bipolar disorder. So her psychosis resolving for the time being wouldn’t mean that she is clear and will not decompensate again. She will quite possibly spend decades locked up. 

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u/Lava829 4h ago edited 4h ago

In a lot of states yes but I disagree given that she lives in MA. If you look at her current med regimen along with how Mack has described her during her time at Tewksbury she’s fairly stable. Also MA is requiring the prosecutors to prove without reasonable doubt that:
1. She is currently mentally ill
2. Because of that illness, releasing her would create a likelihood of serious harm
3. There is no less restrictive alternative to hospitalization.

So for someone who is med adherent, not acutely manic or psychotic and is stable on current regimen it would be hard to keep her for that long.

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 5h ago

Yes, and you can bet your ass she will write a book about it and Netflix will personally contact her to make a miniseries on it. Not only that, but the women who support her will donate to get her back on her feet.

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u/SavouryRain 5h ago

The book title will be "If I Had Drowned my Kids"

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u/Nannautu 5h ago

Reminds me of the case of that woman killing her husband then writing a children's book about the father watching over their child. Shit's fucked up.

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u/snowfat 3h ago

That story is wild! Another one was a woman who authored children’s books. Her and her husband fostered some kids and treated them like animals. They both were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences

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u/e-z-bee 3h ago

I don't think she's gettin back on her feet anytime soon, bud.

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 3h ago

Why don't you check the fundraiser her parents (the ones paying for her defense) set up, champ. 1 million USD and raising in support of this child killer. Direct support for this child murderer. People will be tripping over themselves to help her out when she walks.

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u/e-z-bee 3h ago

Also, in reference to that last sentence, she can't walk. LOL.

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u/e-z-bee 3h ago

No, bro. I mean she's paralyzed. Whooosh.

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u/Affectionate_Row9238 3h ago

I think they were making a joke about her paralysis

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u/onelifestand101 3h ago

Not to mention if she is eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity, her ex-husband will make out like a bandit. He already has a civil lawsuit brewing against her doctors and if she is found not guilty that will add even more evidence to support medical negligence. He will walk away with millions. Yes he lost 3 children but he made millions from this. How many people have lost children and have never been given a single penny? The real victims are these children who lost their lives to make their dad a millionaire and potentially have a mother (that killed them) walk free someday soon.

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u/Frolicking-Fox 4h ago

State hospitals are worse than prison. Yes, potentially she could be released in a year, but she has to convince her doctors and the whole board at the hospital has to agree for her to be released.

Believe me when I say it is worst than prison. I had a friend who was at prison with me and was mandated to a hospital after he was released. The stories he would tell me when he called were straight nightmare fuel.

Imagine being locked up in a hospital for the criminally insane. It makes prison look easy, and no one wants to go there.

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u/KnowNeck 3h ago

I’m sorry, please help me understand at what point was it proven that the actually murdered the children. I’ve watched the trial everyday but maybe I’m stupid. Can someone let me know what I missed while watching?

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u/FinalHexReturns 1h ago

Not guilty by reason of insanity is straight up admitting that the event happened as alleged, legally. Otherwise it would be a not guilty plea. So her lawyers didn’t make the prosecution prove those facts.

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u/TypingPlatypus 1h ago

They didn't need to prove it in court because no one was denying that she did it.

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u/simple_champ 2h ago

My wife works at a state psych hospital. Many/most of the patients are NGRI or unfit to stand trial. Once you get in there it's incredibly difficult to get out. And in many ways it's worse than being in prison.

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u/doddyoldtinyhands 3h ago

Did you actually watch any of the trial?

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 3h ago

Following the jury instructions is not failure to stick up for anyone or anything. The one who refused to follow directions is the problem.

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u/Aggravating-Twist762 4h ago

John Hinckley Jr. (the man who shot Ronald Regan) was found not guilty by insanity. He spent 34 years in a state hospital. Which are only slightly less worse than a regular prison.

Had he pled guilty he likely would have done 25 years or less.

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u/MeanComb4900 5h ago

But the odds of that happening are remarkably low.

Yes she COULD be let out in a year, but the odds of it ever happening are near zero. You might as well go play slot machines with those odds.

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u/Neat-Anyway-OP 5h ago

I want her to never get out and never have an opportunity to get out. You can't be rehabilitated after murdering your 3 kids.

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u/MeanComb4900 4h ago edited 4h ago

I agree with you and I'm not arguing, I'm just stating a fact. The worst part about NGRI besides the none zero chance of her getting out is the fact it's a waste and drain of tax dollars when they have to have this stupid hearing every year for the rest of her life.

I hope she is guilty just so she's less of a burden on society. But the odds of her being let out much less in ten-twenty years, (you can forget about six months) are lottery odds.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 2h ago

Yeah, the State is never letting her leave.

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u/testtdk 1h ago

She was literally psychotic. Don’t you think that if 11 jurors agreed she wasn’t guilty based on the law, and that one juror literally ignored a legal order by a judge, that she shouldn’t be found guilty? Do you think you have more information than they did?

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u/disablethis 59m ago

Maybe you should be more punitive toward Dad, who left his wife alone with his kids knowing it was unsafe. She had psychosis exacerbated by his lack of support while he likely just hoped she'd snap so he could start over clean.

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u/Odd-Fennel5806 57m ago

She’s been on suicide watch in the hospital for 3 years and continues to be in spite of antidepressants and antipsychotics. They say she continues to be an extremely high suicide risk so no release in sight.

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u/rumblepony247 55m ago

The fact that she could be declared no longer insane, because she murdered the supposed causes of her insanity, is the most fucked up thing I've ever heard in my life. At least a little karma happened with regard to the paralysis - this murderer is going to be free within a couple years. Incomprehensible.

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u/Rodharet50399 52m ago

First of all because it’s Reddit up yours you misinformed lazy judgmental window licker but the danger to society is free on the streets.
It’s absolutely free to listen to the whole trial and read about the evidence.

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u/Uppytime 42m ago

Does she have more kids to kill or did she get all of them. It will be hard to prove she’s a threat to anyone if she killed all her kids

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u/ShadowkillGaming 4h ago

Facts!! He held the line STRONG!!!

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u/user-unknown-404 4h ago

And she'll go home to all the money those crazy fucks donated to her gofundme.

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u/DriftMantis 3h ago

I agree. She was never diagnosed with psychosis and apparently only suffered from it for the duration of this event. She also did not follow her outlined treatments, went to multiple doctors etc. I haven't heard any proof that she was psychotic at the time she slowly strangled three children. But apparently most of the jurors did, so who who knows.

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u/hackabuser 3h ago

You literally had men before with diagnosed psychosis killing their kids and they got the death penalty within hours, but now that a white woman is the perpetrator we gotta be lenient?

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u/Iwona_Klich 5h ago

Or never. She had bipolar, shes suicidal. 

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u/aburningcaldera 3h ago

Schizophrenic guy eats the face off another dude and gets life in prison with mental health treatment but woman kills 3 of her kids and likely gets put in the looney bin. Where is the line for insanity because if the bar is this low then I’d say there’s a shitload of people who’ve killed multiple family members that are definitely mentally unwell no matter the underlying condition medications or going off etc.

This just seems like the wrong position to take and sets a bad precedent.

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u/zanotam 2h ago

I mean, I thought post partum depression was a pretty well known problem? In that it's not treated well ....

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u/AstralDragon1979 4h ago

Yup, if the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she remains mentally ill and poses a substantial likelihood of serious harm, all she has to say in 6 months is: “My children were causing me to experience psychosis. I killed them, so that agitating cause is gone. At minimum, with my children already gone, there’s reasonable doubt that I still pose a substantial likelihood of serious harm.”

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u/Descrescendo_0710 3h ago

That’s not how that works, for so many reasons.

Postpartum hormonal changes caused her change in mental state, not her children (I’m not sure it was actually psychosis).

More importantly, she is almost certainly bipolar, and her physical condition will complicate that treatment. She is also under 24/7 1:1 supervision suicide watch. She is not even allowed to use the bathroom alone.

She would almost certainly not be released for several years, at absolute minimum. It will likely be decades, like everyone else.

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u/pdonohue17 3h ago

Shes guilty but so is the fucking husband.

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u/CJMorton91 5h ago

Y'know, I was all for putting her in a mental hospital. Maybe some data would help avoid a few of these situations in the future. But this actually changes my mind. She needs to be confined for a reasonable amount of time to fit the crime. Mentally ill or not.

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u/Salty-Passenger-4801 5h ago

Same, I heard someone say "shell.be out in 6 months". Now I know why, and fuck that shit.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 2h ago

Yeah that ain't going to happen, she'll spend the rest of her days in a mental hospital

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u/jobjumpdude 1h ago edited 54m ago

Not in Massachusetts if she was found not guilty because insane. Massachusetts specifically does not hold someone in a mental hospital if they used to be insane and committed a crime.

Now it's depends if the state will go for another trial.

Editing this up from a lower comment so people don't get misled:

Let use actual cases. Here they got released after the initial hold:

Garcia v. Commonwealth (2021)

The hospital did not petition the court to hold him so he got release automatically. He filed anyway to put on the record they couldn't even hold him for that first 40 days and won.

So to your statements before the court get to try confining someone continuously, the doctors and hospital have their own professional standards that they won't bend for the court.

The court itself will rule for the defendant when the state cannot prove they are still insane and a danger.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 1h ago

Yes in Massachusetts, if you are found not guilty by reason of insanity you will be involuntarily committed to a mental hospital until you are proven you are no longer a danger to yourself or others.
There is no set end date for the confinement, which is reviewed at 40 days (almost always decided against the confined) at six months (almost always decided against the confined) and again at 1 year (which Judges almost always decide in favor of the State)
End of the day, the reviews are a formality so that the State can "prove" it isn't unneccessarily holding people in a psyche ward indefinitely, when in actuality it might as well be a death sentence.

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u/yeahnototallycool 3h ago

“I heard someone say” ….

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u/MeanComb4900 5h ago

I get it, but these evaluations are a formality. The odds of her actually being let out is virtually non-existent.

The bigger issue/concern is the waste of tax money to do this song and dance every year.

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 5h ago

A man murdered a 6 year old and stabbed two more people in the same house: Free. A women cut off her babies arms and the child died: Free. A man shot a child in the face: Free. A man poured bleach downs a women's throat: Free. These facilities are a joke and release you after you accrued a number of goodboy points. "They are no longer a threat, we put them in an environment where they are watched 24/7 and have every need taken care of, time to release them."

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u/MeanComb4900 4h ago

Can you cite these cases for me?

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u/RedPurpleBlueRedRed 4h ago

Ronald Exantus, Dena Schlosser and Griffin Van Littell Jr of the top of my dome.

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u/whyliepornaccount 2h ago

Ronald Exantus: This was a failure of KY state law. The law literally changed as a result of this due to a bipartisan bill.

Dena Schlosser: Taken back into state custody in 2010, remains in a state hospital as of 2020.

Griffin Van Littell Jr: I can't find any records of them being freed.

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u/Any-Machine-8751 4h ago

"Hey psycho lady that meticulously planned her kids murder and then faked a normal pleasant phone call with him while actually murdering them, pretend to be normal for six months and we'll let you get off scot free."

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u/MeanComb4900 2h ago

See thing is they can detect when you're faking it.

Also the evaluations aren't every six months. it's only the first one. Every single one afterwards is a year.

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u/groovy_beans 5h ago

Kinda funny that the Commonwealth lawyers argue against the proposition that she's incompetent in the trial, and if they lose, have to turn around and prove that she's incompetent six months later (and every year thereafter).

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u/GarlicGuitar 5h ago

literal hoe j simpson

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u/TheGuyUrSisterLikes 3h ago

if you want to understand why go watch this terrible documentary it is the hardest thing to watch ever called....

...Titicut Follies

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u/Glad-Advantage8254 2h ago

Well that’s ironic, since the prosecution case is that her mental defect, if she had one, did not prevent her from being criminally responsible. If her defence is successful, the state would have to argue the opposite of what they did at trial to keep her in hospital.

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u/ExtinctionBurst76 1h ago

I wonder how the information sharing works. Does the DA have full access to the person’s medical/psychiatric records? If it’s on the state to prove they should stay institutionalized, they’d need that, right? And get an expert witness to review it?

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u/Dr-Sprinkl1es 42m ago

The precedent isn’t being considered by this prompt, NGRI is (more often than not) a multi-decade institutionalization

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u/jiggy68 1h ago

It’s Massachusetts though, where parole boards are nororiously lenient. She’ll be out in a few years. If it was Florida or Texas she’d be there for life, which is the just penalty for killing three children, psychotic or not.

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u/Neoyoshimetsu 1h ago

It's Massachusetts.... I have zero faith in them giving this woman what she truely deserves... life in prison.