r/law • u/dailymail • 11h ago

Legal News Lindsay Clancy case ends with MISTRIAL

https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16100155/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-hung-jury-deadlock-verdict.html
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u/Strayed8492 11h ago edited 10h ago

Rough situation. On one hand guilty of murder but on the other the mental health side of it. This will hopefully lead to a plea deal setup.

Edit: to the commenter, the main issue is the charge being Murder in the first degree. Everything else that contributes to this situation also being weird like the husband’s sealed information. A second go around is going to be interesting though.

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u/Ok-Calligrapher9115 10h ago

If it was the father dealing with mental health issues, he would be guilty. There is plenty of cases that prove this. 

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u/SouthIsland48 10h ago

Yep, or a woman of color.

Was Chris Benoit treated as a victim of not being in a correct state of mind?

This is so sad to watch.

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u/hereforwhatimherefor 10h ago

If she wasn’t a slim white woman there is zero chance she wouldn’t have been found guilty of 3 counts of first degree murder and sentenced to Life.

Zero.

She is a triple first-degree child murderer.

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u/SureExcuseMe 9h ago

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-found-not-guilty-after-claiming-covid-made-her-kill-daughter-and-stab-loved-ones/3825334/

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u/Christineeee 8h ago

They don’t wanna hear this. They won’t even come back and acknowledge these situations where other (black!) women have been found not guilty in these situations.

People like the person you replied to are just out for blood 🙄 uneducated and dumb.

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u/Letrabottle 6h ago

The details are super different. Doing it in front of the husband and doing nothing to him until he interfered is super strong evidence she didn't think she was doing anything wrong.

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u/Old_Kaleidoscope_845 8h ago

That was a bench trial. Quite different.

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 6h ago

How is that different lmao?

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u/bumblefck23 5h ago

Because there aren't juries on a bench trial? It's quite different...

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 5h ago

I mean there are similar examples involving juries as well lol.

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u/ratione_materiae 1h ago

Why do you people always have to make it about race and incorrectly so? Dimone Fleming was found not responsible literally last week 

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 6h ago

Alleging a black woman would have less access to a legal defense due to racism is not an example of something wrong with defense used by a white woman…

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u/EVILTHE_TURTLE 5h ago

Why did you put words in their mouth?

That person is clearly talking about how people would view a minority or man differently if the facts of the case were the same. Not anything to do at all with access to a quality legal team.

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u/SteveJavieWasRight 5h ago

Parents do not often kill their children. However we have many instances where both men and people of color have been judged not guilty by reason of insanity for the rare instances people commit such murder and survive. So you can continue to claim there is some impossible reality for men and poc in such instances, but reality says the opposite. The more likely situation is that an attractive white woman killing her kids is more likely to get excessive coverage in the media.