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Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy

Plymouth County Superior Court, Massachusetts

Lindsay Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with murder in the deaths of her three young children in January 2023. Prosecutors allege she strangled the children at the family's home. Her defense argues she was in a severe psychiatric crisis and lacked criminal responsibility. She has pleaded not guilty. After a multi-week trial in Plymouth County Superior Court, the jury began deliberating on August 27, 2026.

Content note: This case involves the deaths of children and discussion of mental illness.

Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty. Her defense argues that she lacked criminal responsibility at the time of the alleged offenses. Call the Case predictions are public opinion forecasts, not findings of guilt.

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Case file updated August 30, 2026

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Discussion

  • veritas_617 · 3 hours ago

    Day three of deliberations. Quick verdicts favor the prosecution, long ones favor the defense — that's the folk wisdom anyway. Nobody actually knows anything.

  • CourtwatcherMA · 5 hours ago

    I've followed this case since the arraignment. Forget the closing arguments — read the jury instructions on criminal responsibility. That's where this entire verdict lives.

  • jess_quincy · 7 hours ago

    Three children are gone. I have real compassion for mental illness, but the verdict still has to say that this mattered. I don't see this jury letting it end quietly.

  • rn_mom_of_two · 10 hours ago

    My sister survived postpartum psychosis. Most people have no idea how fast it strips away reality. Whatever the jury decides, I hope this trial changes how seriously we take maternal mental health.

  • bostonlegalnerd · 13 hours ago

    Massachusetts puts the burden on the Commonwealth to prove criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt once the defense raises it. That procedural detail is doing more work here than any single witness.

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