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It's Down Right Criminal In My Eyes

GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727

I'm talking about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial.  Why didn't the Judge substitute an alternate for the male juror who refused to follow the law?  He singlehandedly caused a mistrial.  Apparently, he thought that he knew better than the other 11 jurors.  If you can't tell by now, I wanted Lindsay to be acquired if criminal responsibility, as did the other 11 jurors.  Having had a psychotic episode myself, I can totally see that Lindsay was psychotic, heard the commands and, in her mind, saved her children.  She has been on suicide watch ever since.  Does that sound like someone who was just tired of her responsibilities?  Anyone else follow this case?

Community LeaderLeo
Leo
Honestly, I just don't think she needs jail. Possibly lifelong hospitalization but please not on tax dollars. A review of mental health care shows she probably wasn't given the attention needed, and people need to understand that you can have a one-off psychotic episode for a lotta reasons. Not knowing all facts, I can't say to guilt or not guilt but at this point she's harmless to anyoen but herself, IMO
hasty_05
hasty_05
My understanding was the male juror was the only one who didn't want to acquit her totally. He didn't single handedly cause a mistrial. He followed his consequence and the law. This is a juror's job to listen to the evidence and vote according to the law as given to the jury. He did that and now people are calling him names and doxxing him and this is not right.

My understanding is also that Massachusetts has an unusual law governing these cases and it caused the mistrial.

I worry she will not get further mental health help no matter what her legal situation resolves to.

The whole story is sad and terrible. We had one like this in the town I lived in, near where I lived. Andrea Yates got life in a behavioral health prison and her husband basically ignored her postpartum psychosis for years. She apparently followed some kind of religious cult that her husband was not gung ho about according to a recent documentary on TV. Andrea Yates felt she was not a good mother and needed to send the kids to God to save them from herself. It is just very sad. I knew people who worked with her husband.

There are some similarities to both cases and it just upset me to hear some of the same "system" and family failures and medical help failures.
carlyj1202
carlyj1202
I am so sorry for anyone who has gone through post-partum. It is so difficult.

But Linsday Clancy murdered her children! Could she have not stopped after choking and murdering the first one? And think, what have I done? No, she went on to do it two more times!

I do remember the Andrea Yates case. It was all over the news as they live very near us so it was also local news. How in the world does that happen?
GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
hasty, the foreperson said he was not following the law regarding reasonable doubt. I don't see how the Commonwealth proved their case. But I love ya! carly, I think my having experienced being psychotic helps me to understand Lindsay. I remember when the news first broke. I don't think I was on her side at all.
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