Janette MacAusland case update
by Can: Lindsay Clancy
Four months down with no projected date for presentation, the defense is asking for dismissal or reasonable bail conditions. Janette MacAusland from Massachusetts has no prior record, so her attorney cites mental illness as the reason to drop the murder allegations against her. This isn't Lindsay Clancy 2.0; Jeanette McOsland is her own woman. There's a national discourse on criminalizing mental illness, and the hope is the DA office rethinks how they prosecute women with profound problems.
Transcript (en)
So I would suggest that given my client has no record, given the fact that we are now at the four-month mark and we still can't even have a projected exact date of presentation, a follow-up presentation, that the court within its duty and obligation has to either dismiss or set a reasonable bail with conditions. I would suggest that reasonable bail would be $25,000. This is not Lindsay Clancy 2.0. Jeanette McOsland is her own woman. But there's been a discussion, a discourse that's opened up in this country about whether or not we want to criminalize mental illness. And I'm hoping that this district attorney's office and the new district attorney elect takes a look at this and takes a different approach in how we prosecute women suffering from profound mental health problems.
