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Lori Vallow, Lindsay Clancy And When Diagnosis Collides With Criminal Responsibility (9/7/26)
The Lori Vallow case provides a stark test of the argument that severe mental illness should, by itself, substantially diminish or erase criminal responsibility for the killing of children. Vallow embraced an elaborate delusional worldview involving zombies, dark spirits, apocalyptic prophecy and supernatural classifications of the people around her, including her own children. If the mere existence of profound psychiatric disturbance is enough to establish innocence, then Vallow would appear to present one of the strongest possible cases for that defense. But that reasoning quickly runs into…
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