As Lindsay Clancy returns to court following her recent mistrial over the killings of her three children, questions remain as to whether she should be criminally charged once again. Many believe that Clancy shouldn’t face murder charges at all because of her mental state.
Legal analyst and “Crime Stories” host Nancy Grace joins Billy Hallowell on “The Dialogue” to discuss her thoughts on the Clancy case. Hallowell shares several clips from Clancy’s trial along with reaction clips to Grace, who doesn’t hold back on her thoughts about how the case should be handled.
[HALLOWELL] Welcome to The Dialogue from The Washington Times. In this episode, we are revisiting the Lindsay Clancy case. Now, Clancy is the mother accused of killing her three young children, and her trial, which resulted in a mistrial, has shocked the nation and the world.
I’m joined today by TV host Nancy Grace. I want to dive right into this. We normally start the show with something we call The Pitch, and we do a lot of debate shows. We give our guests 30 seconds to basically… their position on one central statement. And I’m going to throw the statement out to you and I want to hear your position. And then we’re going to work through some video here. But the statement is: Lindsay Clancy should be held criminally responsible for the killing of her three children. What say you?
[GRACE] Lindsay Clancy’s case evokes a split down my psyche. One side of me feels incredibly sorry for her. As the mother of twins, my beloved twins, I can’t think of anything worse than being away from them, much less than being dead. It hurts me to even say that in the same sentence. The other side of me knows the black-and-white letter of the law, and it is the old McNaughton test, the insanity law brought over from Great Britain as part of our American jurisprudence and common law. And it says, if you know right from wrong at the time of the incident, then you are not legally insane. Yes, according to street vernacular, she may be crazy, but under the law, she is not insane. Why? Because she created a plan and methodically carried it out.
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