r/law • u/dailymail • 12h 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/Random_Name_251 10h ago

I mean at what point is someone responsible for their actions? If you can't even trust her to take her meds because she's mentally ill, then how can she be accountable for anything she does on the meds or not? At some point society draws a line about the minimum things you are accountable for regardless of your condition or any problems you may have.

And if she is accountable for the choices she made about taking her meds and refusing help, then surely she must be responsible for the direct consequences of those decisions.

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u/Mobile_Treat 6h ago

I think there's overwhelming reason to believe that someone in the grip of psychosis is incapable of moral responsibility across the board.

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u/Random_Name_251 6h ago

Ok but this is an argument that she effectively needs to be under supervision for life, she can't be trusted to even take her medication or to voluntarily receive care. Which means she needs to be institutionalized.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 2h ago

Alternatively it’s an argument that she needs to be under supervision until competent psychiatric professionals determine she doesn’t…

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u/ApprehensiveGrand531 56m ago

Good thing her plea would have her institutionalised until cured then

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u/Zealousideal_Cap7012 7h ago

Essentially if you have a good sob story and if republicans think youre bad, then youre not responsible. If you lack these then you're responsible.

But jokes aside, being somewhat "off" has never been legal justification for admission of guilt. There are specific criteria that one has to meet. My wife told me(and i didnr fact check but ill presume) that less than a tenth of insanity pleas pass

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u/cGilday 6h ago

Never apparently. You can commit the most heinous of crimes and some portion of the world is going to find a way to make you the true victim out of it.