Lindsay Clancy Trial Opens: Prosecution Rejects the Psychosis Defense Outright

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial officially got underway this week with opening statements in Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and has pleaded not guilty. Her defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, rests on an insanity claim: that Clancy was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication when the killings happened.

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