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Victoria Bekiempis and agencies

Lindsay Clancy returns to court as lawyer asks judge to find her not guilty

A. young woman sits in court
Lindsay Clancy at a hearing in Plymouth superior court on Tuesday in Massachusetts. Photograph: Greg Derr/Pool via The Patriot Ledger/AP

Lindsay Clancy returned to court on Tuesday in her lawyers’ fight against a possible retrial after a jury earlier in September failed to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her children – a proceeding that ended without definitive action.

Clancy’s team asked William F Sullivan, the superior court judge in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to deem Clancy, 36, not guilty of murder for killing her ⁠three young children in 2023, which she maintains she did while suffering postpartum psychosis and is therefore not legally responsible for. Sullivan on Tuesday only heard arguments on that request.

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