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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yangand agencies

Jury deliberations begin in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after her attorney blames medical system

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Lindsay Clancy at her murder trial in Plymouth superior court in Massachusetts on 26 August 2026. Photograph: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/Pool The Patriot Ledger/AP

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has moved into deliberations as jurors decide whether the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children in January 2023.

Over the past five weeks, the trial, which has been called “America’s saddest murder trial” , has renewed nationwide attention on postpartum mental healthcare. Clancy’s defense maintains that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis – a condition estimated to affect around two women per 1,000 births – and therefore should not be held criminally responsible for her actions.

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