Psychiatrist from Yates case testifies in Clancy trial defense

Multiple children's deaths are central to this case involving alleged infanticide and questions of maternal mental illness.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the question that haunted the Yates trial a generation ago has returned: when a mother kills her children in the depths of psychosis, where does illness end and culpability begin? Dr. Phillip Resnick, the psychiatrist whose testimony helped acquit Andrea Yates in 2001, took the stand Friday in Lindsay Clancy's defense, carrying with him decades of legal precedent and the unresolved grief of multiple children's deaths. His presence signals that this trial, like the one before it, may become a landmark in how American law reconciles the devastation of infanticide wi

Psychiatrist from Yates case testifies in Clancy trial defense

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