Clancy accepts evidence stipulation as fingerprint gap emerges in murder trial

In a Massachusetts courtroom, Lindsay Clancy — a mother accused of killing her three young children in January 2023 — agreed to a forensic stipulation that quietly redirected the architecture of her trial. By conceding certain physical facts without contest, her defense cleared away the noise of evidence chains and laboratory testimony, leaving the jury to face the only question that now truly matters: not whether these acts occurred, but whether the woman who committed them bore the moral and legal weight of criminal intent. It is an ancient tension the law has never fully resolved — the line