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Canada's $20B Tariffs Take Effect, Traveling Nurse on Trial in Deadly LA Crash, Lindsay Clancy Case Puts Spotlight on Black Mother's Murder Convictions · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Canada's trade fight with the U.S. just escalated again, and
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  Speaker 1: Americans could fill it in their wallets.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing, because Canada is one of
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  Speaker 2: our biggest trading partners, and one of the biggest goods
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  Speaker 2: that we import from them is oil and petroleum. So
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see a lot of higher gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: And a traveling nurse is now on trial for a
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles crash that killed six people.
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  Speaker 3: She should be in jail. convicted and sent to prison
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you how fast prosecutors say she was going.
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  Speaker 1: And two mothers killed their children and both claimed severe
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  Speaker 1: mental illness. But what happened in their courtrooms was very different.
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  Speaker 4: That illness is supposed to be taken seriously. It's that
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  Speaker 4: when it's Black women, we are viewed as supposing to
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  Speaker 4: be so strong.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, September 10th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Canada's retaliatory tariffs on about $ 20 billion
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  Speaker 1: worth of American goods are now in effect, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about products people buy every day. Milk, perfume, video
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  Speaker 1: game consoles, golf clubs, fishing rods, steel, aluminum, and some
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  Speaker 1: clothing are among the products being hit with tariffs as
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  Speaker 1: high as 50%. Some cheese, carpet, household appliances are being
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  Speaker 1: hit with 25% tariffs. Other industry products face 15%. And
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  Speaker 1: so here's how we got here. Trade negotiations between the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: and Canada fell apart last month. The Trump administration then
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  Speaker 1: imposed 50% tariffs on about $ 20 billion worth of Canadian goods,
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  Speaker 1: including dairy products, furniture, clothing, fishing equipment, and other products.
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  Speaker 1: Canada promised it would respond dollar for dollar. And now
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  Speaker 1: it has.
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  Speaker 2: Fruits and vegetables. You're going to see some higher prices.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing, because Canada is one of
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  Speaker 2: our biggest trading partners, and one of the biggest goods
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  Speaker 2: that we import from them is oil and petroleum. And
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  Speaker 2: so you're going to see a lot of higher gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to that, we're going to see prices in
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  Speaker 2: terms of cars, because with the USMCA and that trade agreement,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the cars are being produced, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of parts of the cars get produced in Canada, in Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: And now that those supply chains are getting disrupted, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to lead to higher car prices.
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  Speaker 1: And this matters because U.S. and Canada do hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars in trade every year. Canada's new tariffs
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  Speaker 1: make American products more expensive to sell in Canada, potentially
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  Speaker 1: hurting U.S. companies and farmers that depend on Canadian customers.
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  Speaker 1: And the back and forth can also raise costs for
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  Speaker 1: businesses that rely on products and materials moving across the border.
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  Speaker 1: And the trade fight is already escalating again. The Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration announced it will ban most Canadian alcohol, some dairy products,
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  Speaker 1: and motorcycles from entering the U.S. beginning September 29th. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is also moving to keep Canadian products out of large,
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  Speaker 1: long-term U.S. government contracts. And there's another deadline coming. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: previous threat to raise tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, and
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  Speaker 1: auto parts to 50% beginning January 1st remains in place.
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  Speaker 1: So Canada now has retaliated against the U.S., and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: has already responded again. And a traveling nurse is now
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  Speaker 1: on trial in Los Angeles, accused of causing a crash
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  Speaker 1: that killed six people, including a pregnant mother, her unborn baby,
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  Speaker 1: and her 11-month-old son. Her name is Nicole Linton. This
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  Speaker 1: happened back in August of 2022 at Slauson and La
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  Speaker 1: Brea in South Los Angeles. Prosecutors say Linton was driving
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  Speaker 1: her Mercedes at 131 miles per hour when she ran
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  Speaker 1: a red light and slammed into a busy intersection. They
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  Speaker 1: say this was not an accident. Prosecutors told jurors Linton
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  Speaker 1: was upset with co-workers and planning to quit her job
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  Speaker 1: at Kaiser Permanente, where she was working as a traveling nurse.
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  Speaker 1: They say she got behind the wheel angry and pressed
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  Speaker 1: the gas pedal to the floor. Jurors were shown video
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  Speaker 1: of the crash and its aftermath. Thick black smoke, cars
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  Speaker 1: and debris scattered across the intersection, blood on the pavement,
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  Speaker 1: and an infant's car seat overturned in the street. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say the impact was so violent that the 11-month-old was
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  Speaker 1: thrown from the car into a nearby parking lot. His mother,
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  Speaker 1: 23-year-old Ashley Ryan, was more than eight months pregnant. She
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  Speaker 1: was on her way to her final prenatal appointment. Asheri
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  Speaker 1: was killed. Her boyfriend, 23-year-old Reynold Lester, was killed. Their
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  Speaker 1: unborn baby girl was also killed. And two other women
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  Speaker 1: died in the crash, six people in all. Linton survived
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  Speaker 1: with only superficial injuries. And as this case finally goes
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  Speaker 1: before a jury four years later, people in the community
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  Speaker 1: say families have been waiting a long time for accountability.
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  Speaker 3: Nicole Linton was selfish, had a temper tantrum, and drove
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  Speaker 3: through an intersection at over 100 miles an hour with
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  Speaker 3: no regard for human life. And that's why she should
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  Speaker 3: be in jail. convicted and sent to prison for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of her life because the Slauson Six, their lives
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  Speaker 3: are gone forever.
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  Speaker 1: But Linton's defense attorney says what happened that day was
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  Speaker 1: a medical emergency and not murder. Her attorney says Linton
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  Speaker 1: suffered a seizure moments before the crash and lost control
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  Speaker 1: of the car. Linton had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder
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  Speaker 1: and had previously been hospitalized for mental health issues and
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  Speaker 1: had been prescribed medications. But according to testimony, she had
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  Speaker 1: not been taking those medications for years. Paramedics who treated
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  Speaker 1: Linton after the crash had previously testified that she appeared
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  Speaker 1: confused and couldn't remember what happened. One EMT said Linton
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  Speaker 1: asked whether she had killed or hurt anyone and then
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  Speaker 1: became extremely upset. But prosecutors say the physical evidence tells
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  Speaker 1: a different story. They say Linton's Mercedes stayed center in
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  Speaker 1: a curving lane as she approached the intersection. Evidence, they argue,
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  Speaker 1: shows she was still steering and had some control of
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  Speaker 1: the car. A doctor who treated her immediately after the
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  Speaker 1: crash also previously testified that he found no evidence of
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  Speaker 1: a neurological episode. Prosecutors say Linton had time to brake, stop,
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  Speaker 1: or swerve. Instead, they say she accelerated to 131 miles
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  Speaker 1: per hour. Linton now faces six counts of murder. And lastly,
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  Speaker 1: you may have been following this case, the Lindsay Clancy
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  Speaker 1: case in Massachusetts. Clancy admitted to killing her three young children,
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  Speaker 1: five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Her defense argued
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  Speaker 1: she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally
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  Speaker 1: responsible for what she did. Her trial lasted about six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Jurors heard extensive testimony about her mental health from doctors, psychiatrists,
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  Speaker 1: family members, and other witnesses. And last week, after more
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  Speaker 1: than a week of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 11 to 1.
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  Speaker 1: The judge declared a mistrial. But Clancy's case is now
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  Speaker 1: putting a new spotlight on another Massachusetts mother whose case
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  Speaker 1: has been striking some similarities. Her name is Latarsha Sanders.
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  Speaker 1: Sanders is black. She was convicted in 2022 of killing
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  Speaker 1: her 8-year-old son, Edson Marlon Brito, and her 5-year-old son,
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  Speaker 1: Lasson Brito. The boys were killed inside their family's Brockton
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  Speaker 1: home in 2018. Sanders' defense also argued severe mental illness
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  Speaker 1: and psychosis, but here's the major difference. Her jury was
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to see thousands of pages of mental health
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  Speaker 1: records documenting her condition after the killings. Those records included
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  Speaker 1: evidence of hallucination, paranoia, and schizophrenia. An expert who examined
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  Speaker 1: Sanders concluded she had been severely psychotic around the time
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  Speaker 1: she killed her sons, but that evidence was kept from
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  Speaker 1: the jury. Sanders was convicted of two counts of first-degree
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  Speaker 1: murder and received two mandatory life sentences without the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of parole. Now compare that with Clancy. Her jury was
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  Speaker 1: allowed to hear weeks of evidence about her mental health
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  Speaker 1: and her defense that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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  Speaker 1: And these cases went through the same courthouse, the same judge,
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  Speaker 1: same Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, but what their juries
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  Speaker 1: were allowed to hear was very different. Clancy's case also
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  Speaker 1: dominated national headlines, while Sanders' case received far less national attention.
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  Speaker 1: Legal experts say that comparison is bringing attention to a
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  Speaker 1: larger issue, whether the mental health of Black women is
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  Speaker 1: often overlooked, including inside the criminal justice system.
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  Speaker 4: What's supposed to happen is whether it's a white woman
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  Speaker 4: or a Black woman, that illness is supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: taken seriously. It's that when it's Black women, we are
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  Speaker 4: viewed as supposing to be so strong that we can
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  Speaker 4: endure things like twice the size of a man. And
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  Speaker 4: if it's a white woman, she's a delicate flower. We
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  Speaker 4: both are fragile. We both experience postpartum depression frequently.
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  Speaker 1: And now Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that Sanders' mental
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  Speaker 1: health records should have been allowed into evidence. The court
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  Speaker 1: unanimously overturned her conviction, finding that keeping those records from
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  Speaker 1: the jury hurt her ability to present her mental health defense.
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  Speaker 1: So after being sentenced to two life sentences without parole,
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  Speaker 1: Sanders is now getting a new trial. The district attorney's
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  Speaker 1: office said it is reviewing the ruling and determining its
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  Speaker 1: next steps. And Clancy's case isn't necessarily over either. Her
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  Speaker 1: mistrial does not mean she was acquitted. And Clancy's case
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  Speaker 1: isn't over either. Her mistrial does not mean she was acquitted.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors can retry her and her next court date is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for later this month. So these are still two
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  Speaker 1: very separate cases involving two mothers and five children who
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  Speaker 1: were killed. But they are now being examined side by
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  Speaker 1: side because of what one jury was allowed to hear
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  Speaker 1: about mental illness and what the other jury was not.
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network.