Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 2: When Knowing Isn't Enough: The McNaughton Rule vs. Lindsay Clancy

Let's take a short jog across the pond to 1843 and meet Daniel McNaughton, the Scottish woodturner whose delusions changed criminal law forever.

This episode links his famous insanity rule to the modern questions in the Lindsay Clancy case: not just whether someone knew what they were doing, but whether their mind could actually stop them from doing it.

It’s a weird, human legal puzzle — part history, part courtroom drama — and it still matters today.