Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial started on Aug. 27 after five weeks of testimony.
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children while her now-ex-husband was running errands in January 2023.
The 36-year-old mother faces three counts of first-degree murder, one for each child: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.
Judge William Sullivan gave the jury the option to instead consider second-degree murder or manslaughter.
Only a few hours of deliberations happened before Sullivan ordered a recess until 9 a.m. on Friday at the Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
No verdict was reached on Thursday.
In his closing argument on Aug. 27, Jacki Thrapp reports for The Epoch Times, that defense attorney Kevin Reddington urged jurors to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, alleging that “her mind was gone” during the killings and said she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis.
“This young lady is not guilty of the killing of her children because she was suffering from a disease and defect, as his honor instructed you,” Reddington told jurors in closing arguments.
“And they’re not going to be able to prove otherwise.”
Additionally, Reddington describved the accused murderer by saying: "This young lady
