Trial begins for Massachusetts mom who says postpartum issues led her to kill 3 children
Jurors will hear competing accounts of postpartum psychosis and premeditation in a case expected to last several weeks.
- Jury selection begins Monday at Plymouth Superior Court for Lindsay Clancy, a 35-year-old Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children in January 2023; she has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder.
- Defense attorney Kevin Reddington intends to argue a lack of criminal responsibility, claiming Clancy suffered from severe postpartum depression and was overmedicated on 13 drugs during the January 2023 incident at her Duxbury home.
- Prosecutors allege Clancy premeditated the killings, citing an internet search four days prior for "can you treat a sociopath"; the trial is expected to span six to eight weeks with more than 200 potential witnesses.
- Judge William Sullivan plans to seat 18 jurors for the case and will permit prosecutors to present a 911 call from Patrick Clancy, who discovered the children's bodies after returning home.
- Experts note insanity defenses face significant hurdles; forensic psychiatrist Joni Johnston described such strategies as "swimming upstream," as the trial will focus on whether Clancy understood her actions at the time.
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Trial begins for U.S. mom who says postpartum issues led her to kill 3 children
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth.
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