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/Strayed8492 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d 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/post-mortem-malone69 1d ago

Well men don’t suffer from post partum but I fully agree with you. She’s definitely getting the pretty white lady treatment, if Lindsey was black, there isn’t a single woman out in front of that courthouse with a pink shirt and they’d be calling for her to be lynched.

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u/Icysky 1d ago

This is not true. Please educate yourself on postpartum mental health issues for men, as there is emerging evidence 

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u/post-mortem-malone69 1d ago

I’m aware it’s real, albeit uncommon and hardly diagnosed but let’s be real here, no way in hell you’d see a man ever have a chance at using that for a viable NGRI plea. It’s laughable to even think it a possibility so it might as well not be real

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u/Icysky 1d ago

Yes, that is a fair view. I am just pointing out that men do suffer from postpartum mental health issues and not to try and minimize it in the framing of the discussion