Jury begins deliberations in Lindsay Clancy murder trial

In a Massachusetts courtroom, a jury now holds the weight of a question that has long troubled the intersection of medicine and law: when a mother's mind is shattered by postpartum psychosis, can the law still call her act a crime? Lindsay Clancy stands accused of killing her children, and the deliberations underway ask not only what she did, but who she was capable of being in that moment. The verdict, whatever it becomes, will ripple outward — shaping how courts, communities, and perhaps legislatures reckon with the reality of severe maternal mental illness for years to come.