Lindsay Clancy trial thrown into chaos as jury deadlocks over children’s deaths
The Lindsay Clancy trial has descended into a dramatic impasse after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
Judge William Sullivan urged the jury to keep deliberating after four days of tense discussions in the closely watched Massachusetts case.
Clancy does not deny killing her three children but argues postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder left her unable to understand her actions.
Prosecutors have fiercely rejected that defence, arguing the former labour and delivery nurse made a conscious decision to kill her children.
The case has sparked fierce debate over maternal mental illness, with medical experts offering sharply conflicting accounts of Clancy’s state of mind.
