Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy trial
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An Illinois mother who had been "very invested" in the triple-murder trial of Lindsay Clancy was charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son.
Patrick Clancy says enduring another trial would be "extraordinarily painful" after a hung jury led to a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder case.
In Houston, it also stirred up memories of a strikingly similar trial that became a national spectacle 25 years ago: the 2002 prosecution of Andrea Yates, a Clear Lake mother who drowned her five children in a bathtub. Before the murders, Yates had been diagnosed and medicated for postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.
The mistrial in the case of the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing her three children sets up the possibility of another trial in a matter that has sown division and drawn attention to postpartum mental health.
Trump says Lindsay Clancy will pay "the price" after a mistrial was declared when the jury deadlocked 11-1 in the Massachusetts murder case.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said he has no sympathy for Lindsay Clancy after her murder trial ended in a mistrial, rejecting the defense’s argument that severe mental illness left her not criminally responsible for killing her three children.
Right-wing commentators and MAGA mouthpieces argued those expressing sympathy for Clancy’s mental health struggles before she strangled her three young children in January 2023 proved the dangers of feminism and the left’s moral rot.
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Dr Phil says Lindsay Clancy mistrial a 'teachable moment' on postpartum psychosis: 'There was a failure here'
Dr. Phil McGraw calls the Lindsay Clancy case a "psychiatric emergency that wasn't treated as such" and warns of a potential copycat effect.