Lindsay Clancy’s complex case: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: A mistrial within the Lindsay Clancy case as jurors couldn’t agree on her madness protection.
The law that provides the jury the duty of deciding whether or not Lindsay Clancy was insane or not is fallacious (“Hit with mistrial mess,” Sept. 5).
Juries ought to solely resolve the details of the crime. Judges ought to apply the madness concern at sentencing. They are far more outfitted and skilled to deal with the nuances of this example.
Gary Markman
Beacon Falls, Conn.
Like so many others, I assumed Clancy was guilty till I began watching the trial. Now I consider that she is harmless.
I’m totally shocked at how the mainstream media just isn’t investigating what occurred to her and supporting harmless till confirmed guilty. Even restricted publicity to the trial is enough to provide somebody affordable doubt.
Other than a seemingly coached confession she gave whereas on medicine and within the midst of ICU delirium, there’s not enough proof in opposition to her. If something, the proof factors to Patrick.
This case is so nuanced and interesting. Why are there no respected journalistic retailers investigating it additional?
Shannon O’Dell
Tampa, Fla.
Hypothetically, if Clancy had been a man with the identical historical past of mental sickness on trial, I’m not sure you’d see males’s rights activists with their kids exterior the courthouse and I believe he would have been convicted by now.
Two issues could be true: Clancy may have postpartum melancholy and be succesful of understanding proper from fallacious.
Feminists declare ladies and men are equal however are discovering any purpose to shift the blame from Lindsay to her husband as a result of they swear ladies couldn’t presumably do one thing as heinous as this.
Evan Grollman
Highland Park, NJ
No mom in her proper thoughts would homicide her treasured kids. Even if it was premeditated, solely a sick thoughts would have such ideas and observe by way of.
Clancy was beneath the affect of a multitude of psychotropic medicines that may change mind chemistry. If anybody is answerable for the deaths of Clancy’s kids, it’s the prescribers. All of these health care professionals needs to be held accountable.
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JoAnn Lee Frank
Clearwater, Fla.
I heard Clancy plans to begin a babysitting business when she is ultimately launched. I’m sure all the ladies who had been demonstrating on her behalf would be the first consistent with their children to be her clients.
Barry Koppel
Kew Gardens Hills
The Issue: Rapper Macklemore’s anti-Israel rant whereas opening for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium.
Great, now we now have a performer, Macklemore, of restricted expertise, pontificating in regards to the state of affairs in Gaza (“ ‘Mack’ is a dirty rap,” Sept. 7).
If Israel is practising genocide, it’s doing a poor job. Also, at what live performance did Macklemore discuss in regards to the Israelis who had been raped, kidnapped and murdered on Oct. 7? His selective morality is sickening.
Yakov Moshe
Brooklyn
Macklemore and the remainder of the world ought to learn Mark Twain’s essay, “Concerning the Jews.”
People like him have been round for hundreds of years. They are all gone, however the Jew continues to be right here.
Michael Shapiro
Massapequa
Attending a live performance is for pleasure. I’m sick and drained of performances being was political statements.
As we strategy the anniversary of 9/11, I hope the youthful technology will bear in mind Dr. Martin Luther King. I believe he would say at this second, his well-known line: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Garfinkle
Staten Island
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