Defense begins Lindsay Clancy murder trial as mother testifies to prior harm thoughts

Three children were killed in this case, prompting examination of maternal mental health crisis intervention systems.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy has entered its most searching phase — not the cataloguing of what occurred, but the harder reckoning with why. As the defense calls family members to testify about a mother's deteriorating mental state before the deaths of her three children, the proceedings have become something larger than a single verdict: a mirror held up to the gaps between human suffering and the systems meant to catch it. The case asks, as such cases always have, where the boundary lies between illness and culpability — and whether the law is equipped to find it

Defense begins Lindsay Clancy murder trial as mother testifies to prior harm thoughts

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