Clancy Jury Deliberates 4th Day in 3-Child Murder Trial After 17 Hours
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Updated · The Boston Globe · Aug 31
Clancy Jury Deliberates 4th Day in 3-Child Murder Trial After 17 Hours
3 articles · Updated · The Boston Globe · Aug 31
Summary
Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial were sent home Monday without a verdict and ordered to resume deliberations Tuesday, entering a fourth day after 17 hours of discussion.
The panel is deciding whether Clancy, 36, was criminally responsible for killing her three children in January 2023 or should be found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
84 witnesses testified over six weeks, and jurors reviewed about 300 exhibits, including roughly 7,000 pages of hospital records tied to Clancy’s treatment after the killings and suicide attempt.
Defense lawyers say postpartum anxiety, depression, insomnia and medication errors drove Clancy into psychosis; prosecutors argue the killings were premeditated even though she was mentally ill.
The case has drawn national attention and become a broader flashpoint over postpartum mental-health care, with supporters gathering at court in pink.