Massachusetts Mother Clancy Pleads Not Guilty in Murder Trial for Children's Deaths
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Closing arguments in the case against Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children to death in 2023, were delivered on Thursday, the 22nd day of trial.
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Washington Times CulturePLYMOUTH, Mass. — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023.
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Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. She did not testify during the trial, but jurors heard at length from medical professionals who treated her, as well as from friends and relatives she had told about her mental health problems.
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Rolling Stone CultureClancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, supported her claim that she was not responsible for her actions. He was the first witness called to testify at the trial, which began on July 27. He spoke of her deteriorating mental health at the time of the incident, saying she “kept getting worse and worse.”
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Clancy is facing three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her three children — Cora, five; Dawson, three; and eight-month-old Callan — in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty. While Clancy has not denied killing the children, the trial is expected to determine whether she was legally responsible for her actions. Clancy jumped out of a window after strangling the children to death and was paralyzed in the fall. She now uses a wheelchair and has been held at a state hospital since the incident.
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Washington Times CultureThe killings happened less than three weeks after Clancy was discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She cut herself before jumping from a second-floor window after strangling the children. She remains paralyzed from the waist down.
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01 Newsweek The Trump administration is attempting once again to narrow eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, a federal initiative that allows government and nonprofit employees to have their remaining student debt canceled after 10 years of qualifying payments.
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02 NYT Style The Lindsay Clancy Army, From Moms in Pink to Candace Owens How to understand the support, from a wide range of voices, for a mother on trial for murder.
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03 Washington Times Culture The jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon and met again Friday, asking at one point to take a look at a knife that Clancy used to cut herself and bags with empty prescription pill bottles found in her house.
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04 Rolling Stone Culture “She was reaching out for help, and she was not getting it,” he said. At various points, he slammed quarters down on a table like a pool-hall challenge to make sense of the prosecution’s case. “This is a prosecution that has ripped the soul out of this girl,” he argued, pointing to Clancy, who was seated in her wheelchair. He showed jurors enlarged photos of the smiling Clancy family before the killings, then contrasted them with an image of Clancy in a hospital bed.
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