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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

‘America’s saddest murder trial’: mental health in focus in Lindsay Clancy case

Side profile view of woman in court
Lindsay Clancy in court in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Clancy has been accused of the murder of her three young children. Photograph: CJ Gunther/Reuters

It’s been called “America’s saddest murder trial” and last week jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case listened to mental health professionals, counsellors, psychiatrists and medication experts explain the circumstances in which the young mother killed her three children.

It has been a spectacle that has gripped America, not least because Clancy’s legal defense has been supported by her now divorced husband.

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