Psychologist: Lindsay Clancy lacked acute psychosis when she killed her 3 children

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the boundary between mental illness and legal accountability has become the central question in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children. A psychologist testified that Clancy did not meet the clinical threshold for acute psychosis at the time of the deaths — a finding that challenges the foundation of her defense. The case invites society to reckon with a painful truth the law has long wrestled with: suffering and culpability are not mutually exclusive, and the presence of one does not automatically dissolve the weight of the other.