Judge denies request from Lindsay Clancy’s legal team to split trial into two parts

A judge has denied a request from Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mother accused of killing her children, to split her trial into two phases.

Lawyers for Clancy wanted one phase for jurors to decide if she is guilty of killing her kids before a second phase to determine her mental state at the time.

Lindsay Clancy back in court as attorney asks for a two-phase murder trial

Prosecutors allege that Clancy, who had been battling mental health issues, strangled the children with exercise bands in her Duxbury home, after sending her husband away on errands, and then jumped out of a second-floor window in an apparent effort to kill herself.

The Plymouth County DA is charging Lindsay with three counts of murder, but Clancy’s defense team argues she is not criminally responsible, saying postpartum psychosis and overmedication of powerful drugs caused the tragedy.

She survived and is now confined to a wheelchair.

Clancy’s trial is set to begin in July.

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