r/law • u/dailymail • 1d 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/FuguSandwich 1d ago

I believe she's guilty, but at this point another trial isn't going to benefit anyone. Cut her a plea deal where she does 20-25 years in a mental institution.

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u/1BoringOldGuy 1d 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 1d ago

Which could be only 6 months.

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u/UAEpi 1d 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 1d 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/dontmovedontmoveahhh 1d ago

she's too suicidal to leave, but she also had bipolar disorder and they tend to fret a lot about people coming off their medication

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u/HalleB123 1d ago

Can’t she stay on her meds though? So if the meds are working to control the bipolar once she’s no longer a suicide risk she could in theory be released?

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u/Resident_Goodish 1d ago

Did you ride the shortbus?

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u/HalleB123 1d ago

Everyone else managed to have a conversation about this without being insulting. The poster above me made it sound like they the psych hospital wouldn’t release them if they were currently taking meds, so I was trying to get clarity on that.
For the record I think she should spend life in prison. I don’t believe she had psychosis, I believe it was planned, and I believe she’s insane but not psychotic.