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Massachusetts has written into law something that most people probably STILL do not understand: a person can kill someone, successfully claim insanity, and never serve a prison sentence for the killing. Ever.
That is not a minor technicality in Massachusetts law.
If the jury has reasonable doubt about whether the defendant was criminally responsible due to insanity, the verdict is not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
The defendant can then be sent to a psychiatric hospital for an initial 40-day period of observation. After that, the state can seek to keep the person committed, initially for six months and then in renewable one-year periods. SO LINDSAY CLANCY COULD BE RELEASED AFTER 40 DAYS AFTER SENTENCING.
This is psychiatric confinement, not a prison sentence. Once the person no longer meets the requirements for being involuntarily committed, they can be released. There is no murder sentence sitting there waiting to begin. There is no requirement that they spend 20 years, 30 years, or life behind bars because they took another person's life.
Think about what Massachusetts has created. Someone can commit a horrific murder, avoid a guilty verdict because there was reasonable doubt about their sanity at the time of the crime, spend some period of time in a psychiatric hospital, and walk out the door in 40 days, if they are later judged well enough to be released. The victims remain dead. The killer can go home and murder again.
That is not a minor technicality in Massachusetts law.
@LauraLoomer@JDVance@ZohranKMamdani Deport mamdani & all the rest of these islam supporters. It is outrageous & insulting to americans to have slimeballs like mamdani on our soil. If they do not accept america, american values, & american liberties & freedoms they can GTFO ๐คจ๐ง