Overview
- Clancy, 35, pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation in the 2023 deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
- Her attorney filed to bifurcate the July 20 trial so jurors would first decide guilt, then assess criminal responsibility tied to an insanity or postpartum-psychosis claim.
- At Friday’s hearing, the court also set a June 18 motions date and discussed logistics for the prosecution expert’s evaluation.
- The defense asked to videotape the psychiatric exam; the prosecutor said taping the evaluation was acceptable but opposed recording test form responses.
- Clancy appeared in a wheelchair after a 2023 suicide attempt and remains held at Tewksbury State Hospital on suicide watch, as parallel civil suits allege she was overmedicated and misdiagnosed.