How the Lindsay Clancy Trial Gripped America, Then Fell Apart
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- A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case.
- Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder and does not deny killing her children in 2023.
- Her lawyers argued that postpartum psychosis made her not criminally responsible, an issue at the centre of the five-week trial.
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial ended without a verdict after jurors told a Massachusetts judge they could not reach a unanimous decision.
The judge declared a mistrial in the case, which involved three counts of first-degree murder. Clancy does not deny killing her children in 2023, but she pleaded not guilty.
Her lawyers argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible. That defence placed her mental state at the centre of a trial that captivated and sharply divided the United States for five weeks.
The BBC’s Ione Wells revisited the proceedings and the case’s collapse after the jury failed to agree.
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