Deliberations officially began in Plymouth Superior Court as a Massachusetts jury weighs the tragic murder case of former labor nurse Lindsay Clancy.
Clancy stands accused of first-degree murder in the 2023 strangulation deaths of her three young children—Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
Her defense team contends she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and overmedication, rendering her not criminally responsible for her actions.
State prosecutors argue Clancy acted methodically, planning the acts while her husband stepped out for dinner, and understood her conduct was wrong.
Forensics experts presented conflicting testimony regarding whether Clancy experienced genuine auditory hallucinations during the tragic basement incident.
Following the incident, Clancy jumped from a second-story window in a suicide attempt that left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Clancy faces life without parole; an insanity verdict would send her to a state psychiatric hospital.