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Noklito@lemmy.zip 4 days agoIt’s a weird situation, most insanity pleas are fought with the defense having to prove they were mentally unwell and incapable of being willingly responsible for their actions but because of the lead up to the crime, it’s being handled in reverse.
She killed those kids but doesn’t want to go to jail and pleads not guilty by insanity so she wants to be institutionalized. The plaintiff argues she wasn’t insane and was in control of her actions due to how functional she was till the last minute before the crime would have been possible as she orchestrated the conditions to allow her to commit the murders. It’s an interesting case that’s getting muddled by the publics personnel beliefs and is also being co-opted for political purposes by right-wingers as proof the 19th amendment was a mistake.
It’s insane to see how we even got to this point but it’s being compared to the OJ murders for a reason.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
it’s also a proxy for class/gender war. she’s a rich white woman, do you think if she was any other demographic she’d be able to get away with this, let alone have other white women fan girling super hard for her?
Noklito@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Unrelated, your name made me chuckle, thanks for the smile.
To the point, I’ve noticed that too, it’s so overwhelmingly obvious that none of the support she’s getting is authentic, it’s clear people are using this for their or culture war nonsense and it’s concerning as the precedent this case could set can have some serious consequences.
It feels like a lot of people aren’t taking this seriously, the arguments/discussions people are trying to make around this can snowball into something disastrous.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
My wife started getting into it from Instagram crap and was talking about how it’s possible if not likely the husband actually did it.
I took 5 minutes to find she’s not even saying she didn’t do it and that still doesn’t matter to her.
I do not fucking get it, and was accused of being misogynistic for not thinking it was possible the husband did it.
I can’t even with social media
iagomago@feddit.it 4 days ago
I live in the exact same scenario and have had at least two heated arguments with my wife about it. I guess it’s a mix of loss of trust in official sources, (quite reasonable) misandry, love for the drama… And in all of this, I still believe Clancy should get the insanity plea. There was a case in the country where I live that happened about twenty years ago, and the poor woman who ended up in jail is still used as the butt of the joke of memes about hating kids.
Noklito@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I honestly don’t get how so any people feel they have a leg in this race.
Personally haven’t been on any of the major platforms for years, but as an outsider looking in, I blame social media. It openly encourages this kind of mob behavior and amplifes the most insane voices with reckless abandon.