Lindsay Clancy trial nears verdict after dueling testimony on her mental state

The trial of Lindsay Clancy is nearing final jury deliberations after prosecutors presented a psychiatrist who argued she could distinguish right from wrong during the killings of her three children. Clancy faces opposing narratives about her mental state. Clancy, a former nurse, strangled her three children in January 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, using exercise bands. She sent her husband on an errand, then jumped from a window in a suicide attempt. The children, aged 5, 3, and 8 months, died. The defense argued severe postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder caused an "altruistic delusion" on the day of the crime. Clancy's mother testified her daughter confessed to harmful thoughts a month prior. Hundreds of women protested outside court to highlight failures in maternal mental health care.