Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity Raises Questions About Psychiatric Commitment

Linda stays with us as we examine what comes next if the Clancy jury stays deadlocked. She explains the high bar for removing a juror, why repeated instructions risk becoming coercive, what a mistrial means for prosecutors and how a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity result can lead to psychiatric commitment rather than prison. She also questions parts of the claimed hallucination defense and considers what prosecutors could change in a second trial. The conversation expands into the wider implications of the defense before Linda signs off ahead of her later fill-in appearance for Dawn Stensland. After a Crossfade-fueled trip back through MySpace-era rock, we turn to the killing of Bank of America vice president Erin Piacenti in a random Times Square stabbing and condemn reactions that appear to turn her employer into a justification for violence.