Beyond the Verdict: The Lindsay Clancy Trial and the Reckoning Over Maternal Mental Health
The courtroom in Massachusetts is tasked with answering a precise legal question: Was Lindsay Clancy criminally responsible when she killed her three young children in January 2023? For the jury, the deliberation centers on a binary legal standard—whether severe mental illness, including postpartum psychosis, so completely compromised her cognition that she could not understand the…
