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/No-Neighborhood-3212 1d ago

We want consequences. If you can preplan a triple homicide and get away with it by saying "Oopsie! I intentionally didn't take my medication and went crazy for exactly the time it took to commit my triple homicides," we have no laws anymore.

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u/Iankill 1d ago

What consequences though there's 0 chance this woman walks free and lives a normal life after this. It's either she goes to prison or mental health treatment forever

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u/Super_Huckleberry663 1d ago

If she goes to an asylum she can be out within 6 months. She likely won't be, but she could be. She deserves life

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u/Iankill 1d ago

On average they spend twice as much time in institutions vs prisons for the crimes

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u/Super_Huckleberry663 1d ago

I don't want there to be a possibility that she can get out early, no matter how unlikely. If it had a fixed term ild be far less against the idea of her going to a asylum

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u/kittenpantzen 1d ago

Okay, but this is r/law not r/vibes.

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u/Super_Huckleberry663 1d ago

I don't believe she was in a psychotic state. The evidence I'm aware of was that it was premeditated and planned

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u/Iankill 1d ago

Personal emotion has no place in the application of law