Massachusetts Juror Deliberation Ends Without Verdict in Murder Trial of Lindsay Clancy
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PLYMOUTH, 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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Rolling Stone CultureClosing 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.
NewsweekAs jurors deliberate in the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, comparisons to one of the most notorious maternal filicide cases in American history have intensified.
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“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings,” said Resnick, who also testified for the defense in the 2006 trial of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. He added that Clancy suffered from severe depression and exhibited behavior consistent with bipolar disorder, reporting hearing a voice that told her to kill her children.
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NewsweekTwenty-five years after Andrea Yates drowned her five children in Texas and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity, Clancy's case is reigniting debate over how the legal system responds when severe mental illness and violent crime intersect.
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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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NewsweekThe distinction is significant because defense attorneys in the Clancy case have argued that her mental illness impaired her ability to understand the nature or wrongfulness of her actions, while prosecutors contend she was criminally responsible.
Rolling Stone CultureClancy’s mental health treatment has been a prominent focus of the trial. She did not testify. On Thursday, closing arguments began in a courtroom packed with Clancy supporters, the Associated Press reported. Hundreds more supporters gathered outside, many wearing pink. Clancy’s veteran defense lawyer, Kevin Reddington, told jurors his client suffered from postpartum psychosis — a relatively rare diagnosis that can cause women to develop delusions and even hallucinations, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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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 "I was in training with Dr. Resnick when he testified in the Andrea Yates case and I attended the trial with him. I think now, with social media and live-streaming of the trial, more people are hearing about the case, and the nuances of postpartum mental illness," Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and adjunct professor at the university's School of Law told Newsweek.
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02 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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03 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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04 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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