The Mother of all Misdirects

  The trouble with the Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity defense is its vulnerability to partiality and yes, I’m talking about the Lindsay Clancy case. The idea of a mother strangling her kids to death is so awful, so against nature the only explanation is insanity. She must...
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Mothers of the Murdered

  A woman named Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts for murdering her three small children. The question is not whether she did it. The question is what her state of mind was when she strangled them to death, whether she is truly culpable for her actions. From there,...
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