Link: https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-trial-latest-deliberations-7e3d5aca36b47a1676b63dd3716eb5c0

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the closely watched Lindsay Clancy trial began deliberating this week — but had not reached a verdict by the end of the day Friday.

They have a lot to consider.

Over the past five weeks, the jury heard testimony from doctors, first responders, relatives and even Clancy’s former husband. It now weighs the question of whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children at her Massachusetts home in 2023.

I think it's wild so many people so firmly believe she isn't guilty by reason of insanity/post-partum depression. I'm certainly not saying it isn't real, but I don't think it adds up to murder. I see the protestors are saying she asked for help, and I know in the US mental health care is hard to come by. I am willing to believe and accept that the system failed her, but I'm not sure all that adds up to a "not guilty" verdict.

I am somewhat curious to hear from people who believe it does! My mind is not made up and I have not followed the case. I just know there are a lot of people out there who can't have kids and would have loved to take her kids if she did not want them or could not care for them. Like their father for starters. Or maybe they have an aunt or uncle who would take them in while she got the help she needed. If not family, someone through her church if she was religious, or maybe a coworker. Society may have failed her, but she has to have some responsibility for failing her children when options existed both ways. Justification for murder should be very difficult, hard to prove, and these cases should be few and far between.

People experiencing psychosis have difficulty thinking through logical paths, like finding someone to take their kids, their logic machine is broken. Their brain isn't working.

It's hard to imagine if you've never experienced long term psychosis, but it's a struggle just to hold on to your own thoughts from one to the next.

The legal test for the insanity defense is incredibly hard to prove and even then she might spend her life in a psychiatric institution. There is only a narrow sliver of a chance she could be released, and that's only if they can prove to the jury she was experiencing a temporary psychosis due to conditions that won't reoccur.

Yeah, without having experienced it, I can't say what it's like. I've never walked a mile in her shoes, or anyone else with mental health issues.

Perhaps the same could be said of any killer, and we sentence them to decades in prison, life in prison, or death all the time. Maybe we shouldn't. I don't know.

That's a big reason why I believe in restorative justice over high recidivism punishments. There needs to be a balance between accountability, people's perception of justice being done, and rehabilitation. That balance is not being met by the justice systems in North America.