Overview
- Prosecutors accuse Lindsay Clancy of deliberately strangling her three children in January 2023 and she is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
- Clancy has pleaded not guilty and the defense plans to argue she lacked criminal responsibility due to severe postpartum psychiatric illness and alleged overmedication.
- The prosecution says the killings were premeditated, pointing to actions such as sending her husband out for takeout and online searches as evidence of planning.
- Seventeen of the 18 jurors the court seeks have been seated after several prospective jurors were excused and judges have been asking detailed questions about mental-health experience.
- Several pretrial disputes remain active, including the defense’s bid to limit repetitive first-responder testimony and Patrick Clancy’s motion to restrict public release of his 911 call and photos, while the judge has set the trial to run several weeks and Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury State Hospital.