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The Biggest HOLE In Lindsay Clancy’s Insanity Defense
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27:55Now PlayingLindsay Clancy's insanity defense has a problem that I believe the prosecution should have hammered from beginning to end: where is the evidence of psychosis or irresistible compulsion before the moment she killed her children? According to the theory being discussed here, the alleged psychosis appears during precisely the window when Patrick is out of the house, commands the killings, and then disappears. That doesn't automatically make the claim legally impossible—but it makes the timing extraordinarily important.
In today's show, I examine that problem while responding to criticism that prosecutors badly mishandled this case. I agree there are legitimate criticisms of the Commonwealth's presentation. Its theory changed, some arguments were unnecessary, and there are fair questions about how effectively the case was tried. But the quality of the lawyers isn't an element of the crime. The jury still has to decide whether Clancy was suffering from the kind of mental disease Massachusetts law recognizes as legal insanity.
I also explain why the “system failed her” narrative doesn't persuade me based on the evidence discussed at trial, why the prosecution may have missed its most powerful argument, and why poorly defined concepts like psychosis and irresistible compulsion could create a serious problem for a lay jury trying to reach a coherent verdict.
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