Mistrial Declared in Lindsay Clancy Murder Case

Are perceptions about this case setting a dangerous precedent or is it a bad-faith argument?

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Mistrial Declared in Lindsay Clancy Murder Case

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Above: Lindsay Clancy and Kevin Reddington listen during jury deliberations, Plymouth, Mass. on Sept. 4. Image credit: Greg Derr/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

The mistrial handed Lindsay Clancy a win, but it cost every other woman something. Turning hormones, SSRIs and postpartum strugglestruggles into a license to escape accountability revives thea ancientharmful smear that women are too unstable for real responsibilitytrope. Follow that logic, and anyit mothercan extend to mothers who admitssimply admit to depression or intrusive thoughts becomes a suspect who can't be trusted alone with her own kids.

New York Post

Everyone wants this case to prove something, and that's exactly the mistake. The hung jury shows that the facts don't collapse into a tidy lesson about broken mothers, scheming husbands or dangerous liberal women. What happened inhere Duxbury was an ultra-rare catastrophe of mismanaged psychiatric care and freak drug reactions, and— making it into a referendumculture onwar womankindissue saysmisses more about the audience than the casemark.