Opening statements are set to begin on Monday in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother charged with the deaths of her three young children in January 2023.
According to the report, Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defence arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.
The report said prosecutors allege Clancy used exercise resistance bands to fatally strangle her children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and seven-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury.
Her husband, Patrick Clancy, discovered the children after returning home and immediately contacted emergency services.
The trial is expected to feature testimony from psychiatric experts called by both the prosecution and the defence.
According to the report, the trial is expected to last six to eight weeks. If the jury finds Clancy not criminally responsible because of mental illness, the court would determine whether she should be committed to a state psychiatric hospital rather than sentenced to prison.
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