Comments on: The Clancy jury apparently will end in a mistrial

By: n.n

n.n — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:24:10 +0000

Automaton Intelligence (AI) is a model of agency without culpability for choice. All’s fair in lust and abortion.

By: n.n

n.n — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:21:34 +0000

A “burden” perceived is a burden aborted is an ethical Choice prosecuted with liberal license. A human rite Planned for social, clinical, criminal, political, and climate progress.

By: Sue K

Sue K — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:08:49 +0000

Personally…whatever decisions are made, I think it should include a hysterectomy…

By: neo

neo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:43:11 +0000

Wendy Laubach:

Precedent says she will be locked up, probably for a very long time. Of course, it’s not completely predictable, but that’s what usually would happen even in Massachusetts.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:41:38 +0000

Watt:

Apparently it exists on paper, but how often it is requested or granted I don’t know. I doubt very often at all.

By: Watt

Watt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:30:08 +0000

Neo, does this procedure really exist in MA??

“and demanding the person be kicked off the 12-person jury and replaced with an alternate.”

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“A filing from Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney has been submitted to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, according to the clerk’s office.”

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:26:11 +0000

There’s a huge difference between deciding that someone is too mentally ill to understand the meaning of his actions, and deciding that he is too mentally ill to control his actions. I think the latter is an easier conclusion to come to.

But it also brings with it an obligation to lock up the perpetrator, who can’t be trusted to control his behavior. I’m OK with confining Clancy in a mental institution rather than a prison. Whether Massachusetts can be trusted on that score, I don’t know.