Prosecutor: Clancy failed to prove 'break with reality' as jury deliberates

In a Massachusetts courtroom, a jury has begun the solemn work of determining whether Lindsay Clancy, a mother who strangled her three young children in January 2023, acted from the depths of a shattered mind or from the darkness of deliberate will. The case turns on one of the most contested boundaries in law and medicine — the line between illness and intent — and asks whether postpartum psychosis can so completely dissolve a person's grasp on reality that the concept of criminal choice becomes meaningless. Whatever the verdict, three children named Cora, Dawson, and Callan will not return,