Ex-prosecutor: Women jurors may be less sympathetic to Clancy's postpartum psychosis defense

In a Massachusetts courtroom, Lindsay Clancy — a mother now paralyzed and charged with strangling her three young children in January 2023 — faces a jury whose composition may confound the expectations of both sides. Her defense rests on postpartum psychosis, a condition that blurs the boundary between illness and culpability, while the prosecution argues the claim emerged only after the crime. The trial asks an ancient and unresolved question: where does suffering end and responsibility begin, and who among us is qualified to draw that line.