Expert from Yates case testifies in Clancy postpartum psychosis defense

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the defense rested its case in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who admits to killing her three young children but pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick — whose testimony helped define the legal understanding of postpartum psychosis in the 2001 Andrea Yates case — took the stand to argue that Clancy's mind, ravaged by psychiatric illness and overmedication, was incapable of forming criminal intent. The case asks one of the oldest and most difficult questions the law must face: when a human mind is so profoundly alt