r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 18h ago

Wait a damn minute! So what’s taking so long?

Post image
• Upvotes

76% Upvoted

4.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

•

u/Amphy64 17h ago

Postpartum psychosis can have ongoing impact, iirc it does in up to half of cases. That seems like it may have been the case here, from the suggestion Clancy has bipolar - it can effectively act as a trigger for it.

•

u/VegetableTour6790 17h ago

But the alternative is also possible. Which is exactly why the plea is generally unsuccessful.

•

u/Amphy64 13h ago

The insanity plea doesn't depend on ongoing mental illness, but the point at which the killings took place.

•

u/VegetableTour6790 12h ago

That's incorrect, it's when doctors and courts determine that your sanity is restored. That doesn't even make sense. Just absolute nonsense.

If that's your position then you must agree that she deserves to be in jail rather than taking away needed mental health resources.

•

u/Amphy64 3h ago

What do you mean? Someone's mental illness could already be controlled by the time of a court case, and their functioning could be good. That doesn't mean them having been suffering from a mental illness at the time of having committed a killing, can't be taken into account in determining their responsibility for that killing any more.

Confinement to a hospital is not supposed to be a required punishment. It's not a punishment at all.