people are more likely to protect members of their own race, even if they're clearly in the wrong. if it were an all-white jury, she might have gotten through no problem.
I believe his stubbornness has to do with how the trial would go if she were a black woman. More than likely she would go to prison without a second thought, but in this case she could go to a psych ward for life. Which isn’t necessarily better than prison forever, but if thats the reason why he refused to change then it makes sense.
I appreciate the awards yall but this is just me trying to make sense of his position. Do not take it as fact. I’d prefer if we’d focus on fixing the system that has failed so many.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I told my close friends immediately that I couldn’t be on that jury. I think the justice system isn’t nuanced enough to handle this, but I probably would’ve said guilty because I know for a fact black women aren’t getting that same grace and consideration.
I would have said not guilty by reason of insanity. Following the case, the prosecution didn't do enough at all to prove that she wasn't insane and she took every avenue to get psychiatric help before the murders. Removing my own emotions aside it's basically the right thing to do. Clancy has fuck all to do with Latasha Sanders.
It's like the Dejuan Brown stabbing of Iryna Zarutska he's currently committed in a mental facility.
Her own husband said he didn’t marry a monster, he married a woman who became ill. He’s suing the hospital and her doctors into the ground in a civil suit over how they messed up her meds and evaluations.
By all accounts she loved those kids and her becoming mentally ill to the point she killed them in her psychosis is horrifying. Her mother in law and parents all came to support her during the trial. We have let right wing media talking points politicize a complicated case and it’s resulting in culture war bull shit or people just wanting to see punishment. The reality is the medical system failed this woman like it fails so many other women. And now we are letting the justice system fail her again by dragging this case into public and people wanting to kill and hurt a mentally ill woman just to satisfy their own sense of justice and revenge. The people closest to her and this case don’t even want that
On one hand I can understand the annoyance of Clancy supporters who have turned the case into their own crime podcast and trying to pin it on her husband before the trial even started
At they same time, I don't have shit to do with them. She was clearly going through a psychosis and no other evidence says otherwise. I'm not needlessly putting a man or woman in prison for first degree murder. Clancy going to prison isn't helping out black women.
She was thinking clearly enough to get her husband out of the house on a pretext.
She was thinking clearly enough to kill the kids one at a time to retain control the situation.
None of this is out of reach for someone going through psychosis. And that's also assuming that the psychosis didn't start after she sent her husband on an errands. She was routinely left alone with the kids, she didn't have to invent a reason.
She was thinking clearly enough to inflict superficial wounds on herself to make it look like a suicide attempt, but not deep enough to actually kill.
She still went into cardiac arrest, had to receive blood and she will likely spend the rest of her days in a wheelchair. She is alive because she is lucky.
It feels like people are under the impression that someone going through psychosis just becomes an insane monster foaming at the mouth who can't think about anything other than destroying everything in front of them.
I was in psychosis for a solid 9 months due to drug abuse and the resulting sleep deprivation. Looking back on it my behavior was absolutely crazy, but at the time I thought I was 100% sane.
What evidence would you need to see to be convinced she wasn’t in a psychosis?
Like how can someone prove that she wasn’t? You can’t prove a negative.
You can prove that she was, but you can’t prove that she wasn’t. Theoretically anything is possible and we can’t truly know what was happening in her head.
At some point the heinousness and complexity of the crime has got to inform on her state of mind. Anything is possible and maybe she was in a psychosis, but on some level if she is that functional in her psychosis, maybe it’s not a stretch to expect her to not kill anybody.
People commit murder-suicides all the time. The intent to kill themselves doesn't automatically absolve them of the murder. Especially when the murder and suicide are both premeditated.
I read the article linked below and it states he was not the prosecutor in this case. He was only “involved” as a homeowner who didn’t want the jury visit (to the “crime scene” aka his new house) to happen due to disruption.
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u/thecatsclause 21h ago
people are more likely to protect members of their own race, even if they're clearly in the wrong. if it were an all-white jury, she might have gotten through no problem.