Lindsay Clancy verdict: Retired judge explains what happens if insanity defense prevails

Lindsay Clancy could spend as few as several years in a mental institution if jurors accept her insanity defense, a retired Massachusetts judge says.

Lindsay Clancy’s future remains uncertain as jurors decide whether she belongs in prison or long-term psychiatric care.

Turning Lindsay Clancy into a cause risks making a serious insanity defense look like an article of faith.

The pink-dressed supporters, who have protested at the Massachusetts trial, say doctors failed to provide adequate treatment despite the mother’s severe mental health struggles

The pink-dressed supporters, who have protested at the Massachusetts trial, say doctors failed to provide adequate treatment despite the mother’s severe mental health struggles

Closing arguments in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set for Thursday. Clancy admitted to killing her children but says she isn't guilty, arguing that postpartum psychosis caused her actions. CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi joins with analysis.

Over the course of nearly a month, Lindsay Clancy has stood trial for the January 2023 killings of her three young children, a catastrophic tragedy that has riveted the country. The scenes unfolding in Judge William Sullivan’s courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been excruciating. “I can’t do this,” Clancy sobbe

Lindsay Clancy has said she was suffering postpartum psychosis when she killed her children in 2023. Prosecution experts shared their doubts about that claim on Tuesday.

How the Lindsay Clancy trial has put postpartum psychosis in the spotlight  ITVX

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers argue she should not be held criminally responsible for killing her children because she was suffering from mental health issues (Picture: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) A forensic psychologist has said he does not believe Lindsay Clancy was suffering from ‘c

A forensic psychologist says Lindsay Clancy's hallucination conveniently began and ended with the 18 minutes it took to kill her children.

Dr. Gregory Saathoff found it unusual that Clancy said she stopped hearing a voice once she was done strangling her children

Lindsay Clancy allegedly never told anyone about hearing a male voice instructing her to kill her children until after she fatally strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. Legal experts have highlighted this timing as a major hole in the Clancy team’s defense claims. As highlighted by The D

The growing calls for compassion and not punishment for Lindsay Clancy should force conservatives to confront their own history of excusing women who kill their children prenatally.

About two weeks after giving birth, Bridget María Chesterton was curled up on the bathroom floor, saying things that made little sense

Dr Kirk Heilbrun says he believes Clancy took children’s lives so they wouldn’t ‘suffer’ after she killed herself With just days to go before the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy concludes, a forensic psychologist called by the prosecution testified on Monday that he did not believe she was experiencing acute psychosis

Mental health experts disagree on whether Lindsay Clancy had postpartum psychosis when she killed her kids  CNN

Lindsay Clancy's trial defense team requested a mistrial after a prosecution witness brought up Clancy's Catholic faith. The judge denied the motion, but instructed jurors to dismiss the comments and sent them home early. NBC Boston's Sue O'Connell reports.

Lindsay Clancy didn't have acute psychosis when she killed her 3 children, psychologist says  AP News

A forensic psychologist has testified that he found Lindsay Clancy did not have acute psychosis when she killed her three children but rather took their lives so they wouldn't “suffer” after she took her own life

Lindsay Clancy has bipolar disorder and was experiencing anxiety, depression, insomnia and suicidal thoughts in the weeks before she killed her three children, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial

Lindsay Clancy has bipolar disorder and was experiencing anxiety, depression, insomnia and suicidal thoughts in the weeks before she killed her three children, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial