Lindsay Clancy’s defense rests at trial over whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her kids

BOSTON (AP) – The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting a number of days of testimony concerning her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children.

Key points

• Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy.
• Prosecutors argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, planned the killings.
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• Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial.

Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial. It is probable entering its final days. Closing arguments are projected next week.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy. This person ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were discovered in the basement of the family's home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy jumped from a second-story window after strangling the children and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

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