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Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children at the family's Duxbury home in January 2023. Her defense does not dispute that she was responsible for the children's deaths. Instead, her attorneys argue that she was experiencing a profound psychiatric crisis involving postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has drawn widespread attention because it raises difficult questions about severe mental illness, postpartum psychiatric disorders, maternal healthcare and criminal responsibility.

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children at the family's Duxbury home in January 2023. Her defense does not dispute that she was responsible for the children's deaths. Instead, her attorneys argue that she was experiencing a profound psychiatric crisis involving postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder and therefore should not be considered criminally responsible for her actions.

Prosecutors have offered a sharply different account. They argue that Clancy deliberately created an opportunity to be alone with her children and carried out the killings intentionally.

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