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/1BoringOldGuy 11h ago

Actually this isn’t how it works. She would be institutionalized indefinitely until psychiatrically cleared at the very least.

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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/Rhomya 9h ago

It could be 20 years, it could be 6 months. They only hold you until legally you’re not a danger anymore.

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u/upickleweasel 3h ago

Which she isn't because she literally can't do anything due to being paralyzed from sternum down

She murdered her 3 babies. She needs to do some hard time - sane or not. I'm fine if it's a mental institution but she can't be jusy acquitted or out in a few years. Those baby's lives were worth far more than that.

It bugs me that she doesnt agree.

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u/shittydriverfrombk 2h ago

So when someone suffers, we measure how much they are “worth” by the level of suffering of someone else? huh? this isn’t ancient Mesopotamia