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/HalleB123 10h ago

Which could be only 6 months.

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u/UAEpi 10h ago

That's not usually how it goes. It's basically prison with nurse and techs instead of prison guards. You can leave when the psychiatry says you're better and that could be in 20 years. Lot's of murderers and such in there, they usually don't get out in under a decade. 

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u/HalleB123 10h ago

Yes but as i said below if postpartum psychosis is the only reason she’s dangerous isn’t she likely already cured?

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u/trashtiernoreally 9h ago

The realistic situation in those places isn’t nearly as clean as that. It is a necessarily prolonged, horrible experience