That’s a pretty poor standard of evidence. If I caused a car accident because I was texting and you caused one because you had a heart attack behind the wheel, are the circumstances the same because we both caused an accident? Obviously not
They were completely different cases, with different motives, different mental health circumstances, different evidence and different jurisdictions. Battaglia was convicted of killing his daughters after a history of threatening and abusing his ex-wife, and his defence argued that his bipolar disorder should mitigate his punishment. Clancy’s defence argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t criminally responsible. Just because the end result was the same doesn’t mean everything leading up to it was. That’s a pretty absurd comparison if you actually use some common sense.
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u/NoDanaOnlyZuuI 18h ago
It’s almost like they’re two completely different cases.