The lone holdout juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy has said he "didn't have any doubts" that she was criminally responsible for killing her three children.

"Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned it," Michael Desronvil said in a statement to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

The judge declared a mistrial on 4 September after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following nearly 40 hours of deliberating.

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Anyone working to strip women of their rights based on this one case is doing so nefariously. This isn't a novel case, this isn't the first postpartum psychosis incident.

It's not Lindsey Clancy's fault if bad actors use her case to attack all women.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

    Well, then I guess we agree that at the very least this guy whose name I can't be bothered to remember or even look up is probably a shitty person and should be treated with disgust by everyone who meets him (probably the best reason to learn his name), and that if it didn't happen in this case another would have come along that the people trying to remove rights could use as a foil to their means.

    That suggests to me that focusing on this loser, or the choice he made that was entirely in his right, will be nothing more than a red herring and it would be better to focus on this case being used as an excuse to remove women's rights.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    it would be better to focus on this case being used as an excuse to remove women’s rights.

    Yep, that's why I've posted about that very thing myself.

    I also think that it is worthy to publicly push back on some of these sexist opinions that are rising from people conflating Lindsey Clancy with all women as if we are a monolith.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Absolutely fair. Hell, even Lemmy users are a pretty small, self-selected bunch and we aren't a monolith.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hey thanks for having a back and forth with me that didn't devolve into name calling or personal digs. That was nice :)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Well, I'm a real, multi-faceted person, and I have my bad days, but I try to call out behavior and statements and avoid insults. Sometimes it's easier, and this was certainly one of them. Maybe we can argue/discuss again in the future. :D

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