New York Man on Trial for Murdering Three Kids, Defense Denies Responsibility
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Clancy, 36, is currently on trial facing murder charges for allegedly strangling her three young kids while the father was making a grocery run. Her defense team doesn’t deny that she killed the kids, only that she’s not at fault and that Clancy is actually the victim of postpartum psychosis and negligent medical providers who had her hopped up on a dangerous cocktail of antidepressants.
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Washington ExaminerClancy’s defense attorneys do not dispute that she murdered her children but claim that she should not be held criminally responsible due to mental illness. She faces up to life in prison if found guilty, and if found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, she will be put in a state mental health institution.
The Daily WireVery few people appear to have mixed feelings about the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy: most either believe that she’s guilty and knew exactly what she was doing, or that she was out of her mind due to postpartum psychosis and did not fully comprehend her own actions. But it’s the ones who have declared their support for Clancy — even taking to social media to claim that her husband was the guilty one — who were the target of the video in question.
The Guardian USWith just days to go before the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy concludes, a forensic psychologist called by the prosecution testified on Monday that he did not believe she was experiencing acute psychosis when she killed her three children.
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PBS NewsHourWATCH LIVE: Final witnesses expected to testify in Lindsay Clancy trial After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set to hear from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children.
New York PostHere’s the latest on Lindsay Clancy’s trial for allegedly murdering her three children:
New York TimesLindsay Clancy Deserves Mercy, Not Life in Prison It is too hard for women suffering from postpartum mental illness to prove the insanity defense.
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Helibrun’s testimony came as part of the prosecution’s rebuttal to several expert witnesses who told the court last week that Clancy was suffering from severe mental health issues.
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Washington ExaminerDr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist who has testified as to the competency of defendants to stand trial in roughly 330 cases, was the second witness of the day on Monday. He began recalling his interview with Clancy in April, during which he touched on the topic of Clancy’s religious beliefs.
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Heilbrun is the latest prosecution witness to say that while Clancy was mentally ill, she still knew that what she was doing was wrong.
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Washington ExaminerBefore the comments about Catholicism, Heilbrun had cast doubt on the central argument in Clancy’s defense, suggesting that her behavior wasn’t consistent with postpartum psychosis.
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WATCH: Forensic psychologist testifies that Lindsay Clancy has bipolar disorder Kirk Heilbrun, who examined Clancy over three days this year, said he struggled to reach a diagnosis of bipolar 2 disorder "because of all the diagnoses in the records and all the symptoms that she experienced."
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The Guardian USHowever, Heilbrun said he did determine Clancy has bipolar 2 disorder, while saying it was difficult to diagnose at least in part “because of all the diagnoses in the records and all the symptoms that she experienced”. People with bipolar 2 disorder experience cycles of depression and hypomania, which is less intense than the mania experienced with bipolar 1 disorder.
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Blake also noted that the burden of proof is on the prosecution here. “They have to prove that Lindsay Clancy acted criminally when she killed her three children, and that’s a strange and hard thing to do,” she said.
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The Guardian USThe trial was expected to head to jury this week and the outcome will largely depend on testimony from expert witnesses. The burden of proof is on the prosecution to show Clancy either was not suffering from “a mental disease or defect” or that she had enough capacity to understand “the wrongfulness or criminality of her conduct”, at the time the killings took place.
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01 New York Post PLYMOUTH, Mass. – A reporter in a green dress has sparked backlash for grinning and winking at the camera during the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy — and she has been bounced from her gig with “Vanity Fair.”
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02 Washington Examiner “That was part of her expectation was that she and her children would be together in heaven with God,” Heilbrun said. “She was raised as a Catholic. As I understand Catholic considerations, that’s not necessarily what happens. But when I asked her about that, when I said, ‘Isn’t suicide a mortal sin?'”
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03 The Federalist The Massachusetts woman who used exercise bands to strangle the life out of her three young children has a fan club of sorts.
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04 The Guardian US Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.
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06 The Daily Wire TikTok has banned a video — citing a “violation of Community Guidelines” — that challenges the narrative suggesting that Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
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