Lindsay Clancy: When the Courtroom and Mental Health System Collide

Lindsay Clancy: When the courtroom and mental health system collide

Twelve jurors in Massachusetts are confronting a question that reaches beyond the fate of Lindsay Clancy: What does justice require when the person who committed an unspeakable […]

EXPLAINER – What is the Lindsay Clancy case and why has the trial divided the US?

Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy is on trial for killing her 3 young children in 2023

Lindsay Clancy: When the courtroom and mental-health system collide - The Daily Bo Snerdley

Twelve jurors in Massachusetts are confronting a question that reaches beyond the fate of Lindsay Clancy: What does justice require when the person who committed an unspeakable act may also have been overtaken by a profoundly disordered mind? There is no dispute that Clancy killed her three young children, or that she had experienced serious psychiatric symptoms and repeatedly sought help.  The prosecution contends that she acted deliberately. H…