Lindsay Clancy appears in court as her lawyer pushes for murder case to be dismissed

Warning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicide.

Key points

• Clancy, 36, does not deny killing her three children in 2023, but her defence team argues she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
• One of the motions addressed on Tuesday was from Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington.
• She argued Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan.
• District Attorney Timothy Cruz remarked to journalists outside after court that prosecutors have not yet decided if they are going to retry Clancy on murder charges.
• Her defence team on Tuesday argued the judge should dismiss her case but prosecutors remarked the state had "met its burden" in proving her guilt.

Lindsay Clancy, the US woman accused of murdering her three children, has appeared in court for the first time since her murder trial fell apart earlier this month.

Clancy, 36, does not deny killing her three children in 2023, but her defence team argues she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time. Prosecutors say the killings were intentional.

It is still not clear if she will face a retrial. The request to dismiss the case is among those that will be discussed at a hearing on 2 November, Judge William Sullivan remarked.

One of the motions addressed on Tuesday was from Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington. This person asked for her to be discovered not guilty under Rule 25 – a Massachusetts motion that states a defendant should be identified not guilty if prosecutors do not argue their case effectively.

Reddington additionally brought a new defence forward arguing there was not enough evidence to prove Clancy killed her children. "This entire case is based on speculation, " he remarked.

It was a change of argument from the defence lawyer. This person during the trial focused on Clancy's mental health – urging the jury to find her not criminally responsible since of it. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called Reddington's argument "laughable".

She remarked state prosecutors had presented numerous pieces of evidence showing Clancy was in a healthy mental state at the time of the murders during the trial. "The Commonwealth met its burden, " Buckingham remarked.

She argued Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan. This person was eight months, in their Massachusetts home.

Judge Sullivan pushed back when both Reddington and Buckingham refused to agree to his suggestion that they might agree to a feasible retrial date now ahead of the hearing, saying he wanted to "get this thing moving".

He asked both sides to be prepared to discuss feasible trial dates at the November hearing.

Reddington remarked he would be unable to go to trial until at least June if the case is retried.

"We're doing our due diligence, we're going to continue doing that, " he remarked. "We're going to do what we can for the children. That's what this case is regarding."

After a week of deliberations earlier this month, a Massachusetts jury informed Sullivan they could not reach a verdict since of a lone holdout juror and a mistrial was declared on 4 September.

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