US Politics on Sidechat | Not a defense of Lindsay Clancy necessarily but Massachusetts law is that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not “legally insane” and had capacity to understand the full seriousness of her actions. It’s not unreasonable

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Not a defense of Lindsay Clancy necessarily but Massachusetts law is that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not “legally insane” and had capacity to understand the full seriousness of her actions. It’s not unreasonable

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for the jury to find they didn’t do that. In many other jurisdictions, the defense must actually prove insanity or lack of criminal responsibility. On a federal level, this law was specifically changed because the attempted Reagan assassin was found not guilty under an insanity plea

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