Clancy mistrial deepens US divide over postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility

In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, a jury of twelve could not decide what a nation of millions cannot agree upon: whether Lindsay Clancy, a nurse who strangled her three young children in January 2024, was a woman destroyed by postpartum psychosis or a woman who chose to kill. After forty hours of deliberation and seven weeks of testimony, the judge declared a mistrial, leaving the question of criminal responsibility suspended in the same unresolved tension that has split American families, social media feeds, and dinner tables. The case has become less a legal proceeding than a referendu