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Lindsay Clancy jury to resume deliberations
AP News • • nation
Key Points:
- Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are deliberating whether she was responsible for killing her three children in 2023, with Clancy admitting to the strangulations but claiming postpartum psychosis impaired her judgment.
- Clancy's defense argues she lost touch with reality due to a rare mental illness following childbirth, while prosecutors contend she consciously chose to kill her children and herself out of depression and exhaustion.
- The jury could convict Clancy of murder, manslaughter, or acquit her if they believe her psychiatric condition prevented control over her actions.
- Clancy, 36, pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility and did not testify, but medical experts and acquaintances testified about her mental health struggles.
- The killings occurred shortly after Clancy's release from a psychiatric hospital; she attempted suicide afterward, resulting in paralysis from the waist down.
