A judge on Friday said he has no choice but to declare a mistrial after the jury deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy for the killing of her three young children at her home in 2023, a tragedy her attorney said occurred while she was suffering from post-partum psychosis.
The nearly six-week-long televised trial revived long-simmering debates about how post-partum mental health in women is treated in the U.S., and how the country’s legal system addresses cases when mothers kill their children.