Lindsay Clancy trial: Mistrial declared after last-minute defense appeal is denied

Clancy, who killed her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — at their Massachusetts home in January 2023, is charged with first-degree murder.

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Prosecutors tried to convict Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy of first-degree murder and send her to prison for life for strangling her three young children.

But they may have undermined their own case by amplifying a key point that the defense had been making, namely that Clancy was struggling with her mental health, legal experts said.

And the witnesses Plymouth County prosecutors put on the stand were unable to convince all the jurors that Clancy knew right from wrong when she killed her kids on Jan. 24, 2023, the legal experts said.

“When the prosecutors all but acknowledged that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a mental illness, they seriously undermined the argument for convicting her of first-degree murder,” veteran Boston defense attorney Brad Bailey told NBC News.

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Clancy will return to Tewksbury Hospital, a psychiatric facility where she has been staying during the trial, Reddington said today.

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