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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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Tragedy In Massachusetts: Trial Underway For Mom Charged In Strangling Deaths Of Her 3 Kids - Tampa Free Press
Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother and former nurse accused of strangling her three young children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months—inside their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. While the defense acknowledges Clancy killed the children, attorney Kevin Reddington argues she is not “criminally […] Tragedy In Massachusetts: Trial Underway For Mom Charged In Strangling Deaths…
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