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Eleven to One: The Lindsay Clancy Trial and the Case for a Graded Insanity Defense
During deliberations, it was widely reported that eleven jurors were prepared to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, and one was not. Unable to come to a unanimous decision, the jury forced Judge William Sullivan to declare a mistrial. It may be natural to read of the split in the jury as the responsibility of a lone juror, but in Clancy’s case, the law simply left the twelve jurors without a workable option.
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