Is Lindsay Clancy Getting Out Of This At All?

Lindsay Clancy sentencing outcomes — people keep asking whether she will get away with it. The honest answer is that neither verdict lets her leave.

If the jury in Plymouth Superior Court finds that Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible, Massachusetts moves toward committing her to a state psychiatric hospital with periodic reviews of whether she could ever safely live in a community. If the jury convicts her of first-degree murder, the sentence is mandatory life without parole and the judge weighs nothing. There is no version of this where she goes back to a normal life.

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