Massachusetts mother convicted of killing two sons granted new trial

In Brockton, Massachusetts, a mother convicted of killing her two sons in 2018 has been granted a new trial by the state's highest court, which found that critical psychiatric evidence was improperly withheld from the jury. The ruling is less a declaration of innocence than a recognition that justice cannot be rendered from an incomplete picture of the human mind. In a legal landscape increasingly forced to reckon with the intersection of mental illness and maternal violence — as the Lindsay Clancy case has made plain — this decision signals that the courts are, however belatedly, insisting on