Defense Scores Key Concession in Clancy Trial Over Psychosis and Lucidity

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy—accused of killing her three young children—has arrived at the ancient and unresolved question of where illness ends and culpability begins. A psychiatrist's concession that psychosis and apparent lucidity can coexist simultaneously challenged the prosecution's portrait of a calculating mind, while the defense works to bridge the gap between documented psychiatric suffering and the unknowable interior of a single devastating moment. The law asks jurors to determine criminal responsibility, but the testimony asks something harder: whethe