Judge plans to declare mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after jury fails to reach a verdict

The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial announced his intention to declare a mistrial on Friday after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on whether the former nurse, whose defense argued that postpartum psychosis caused her to kill her young children, bears criminal responsibility for her actions. Clancy's attorney was given one hour to petition a higher court to stay that decision before it becomes final.Clancy, 36, admitted to strangling her children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan — at their Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023. However, her lawyers argued that she could not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from a rare mental illness that they said made her unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions. Prosecutors contended that Clan