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.
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u/Nightthrasher674 19h ago
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.