Kara Tee

Fascinated by criminal trials and the fair administration of justice.

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@ModerateNut @NatetheLawyer didnt seem to deter her did it

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@REGENETARIANISM @MadriverMind @colonelkurtz99 it will still be up to the judge

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@that1go1yutk @onlyHEisWorthy not how to manipulate jurors. lol if you listen. he teaches experts how to testify competently. like answer yes/no questions like the judge wants you to. If you notice, the judge doesnt like experts to go on and on. he reprimands them. the course helps experts not annoy judges

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@really_martha @DreamFeedMedia and she got shot and unnecessarily incarcerated

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@ReginaFalazzo7 @DreamFeedMedia and she got shot

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@CharismaFueled @KerriCapehart all ego

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@thenixonwifey @KerriCapehart wont help. Red's burning him up

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@TherapistYouKno i said the same. what odd choice of words.

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@JunebugDaniels @PhilipCDube good defense attorneys stand for the fair administration of justice. they want to stand between the state and their client to make sure their client gets a fair shake. Make sure prosecutors jump through all the hoops before taking away a citizen's rights. i respect that

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@PhilipCDube @lawyerschiff doesnt work like that

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@LexiTheLawNerd it was an episode that had not aired yet

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@reblavoie you think he's testified before?

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@Dougy67060 @ItsMissShorty lol way to prove the point

[𝒮𝒽❀𝓇𝓉𝓎 @ItsMissShorty]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Lindsay Clancy case, (obviously, I’m watching every minute of the trial) and particularly the way y’all are reacting to it.

True crime seems to bring out this incredibly binary way of thinking in people. Guilty/innocent. Good/evil. Victim/monster. Pick a team and defend it to the death.

Then add cognitive bias and a healthy dose of Dunning-Kruger. People consume hundreds of hours of content about one case, and mistake familiarity with the case for expertise in forensic psychiatry, psychosis, criminal law and human behaviour.

Others don’t know anything beyond a 2 line headline, and think they are in a position to comment.

Once they’ve decided what happened, confirmation bias does the rest.

She cries? Manipulative.
Doesn’t cry? Remorseless.
Seems coherent? Couldn’t possibly be psychotic.
Seems confused? She’s faking it.

There’s no room left for nuance, because the conclusion came first and everything else has to fit around it. Wild.

But THIS is the part I keep coming back to with Lindsay Clancy:

👉🏻Explaining behaviour is not excusing behaviour.

What happened to Cora, Dawson and Callan is abhorrent. Unfathomable. Nothing about trying to understand why their mother did what she did diminishes that.

Mental illness isn’t binary either. Psychotic/not psychotic. Rational/irrational.

A profoundly unwell person can still talk coherently, make plans and understand cause and effect. The harder question is: what reality was that reasoning happening inside?

A delusional mind can reason logically from a catastrophically false premise.

👉🏻And empathy doesn’t mean defending Lindsay Clancy. It means being capable of asking whether another human being’s perception of reality could have become so distorted that using our own healthy minds as the benchmark for her behaviour is fundamentally flawed.

“I would NEVER do that.”

Well, neither would I.

But I also have absolutely no idea what I would do inside a mind that was no longer experiencing reality the way mine does.

Neither do you.

We can be horrified by an act AND curious about what caused it.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Explanation ≠ excuse. Nuance matters.

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@SouthBostonKev @rhohell2020 @RosemaryScapicc 👀🍿I'm here for it!!!

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@ChuckEWeiss @TherapistYouKno “You folks” ? Please try better than painting with such a broad brush.

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@ChuckEWeiss @TherapistYouKno Well bless your heart

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@Miabella4u @TheOfficerTatum That’s unfortunate, but the undeniable result of raising awareness is a positive. How can that be bad. That’s all I’m asking.

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@Miabella4u @mauiswifter Right, they wrote down the symptoms they didn’t miss lol

[Kara Tee @KayCoyle2]

@SorensenFarms @LacrimosaX67910 Wow you critical thinker, you