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I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story from Up First.
The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended earlier this month.
She's the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three small children in 2023. Her attorneys argued
that she was not criminally responsible for those deaths because at the time she was experiencing postpartum psychosis.
The prosecution said that she intentionally planned the killings.
The trial provoked an intense debate over how we treat the mental health of new mothers.
And ultimately, the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
At this point, I'm going to declare that the jury is deadlocked.
And I'm going to declare a misprime.
Deborah Becker is a correspondent at WBUR in Boston.
She covered the trial from inside the courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
And she joins us today to talk about the case,
the arguments of both sides, the jury's inability to reach a unanimous decision,
and what it all means for Lindsay Clancy and for how the public perceives maternal mental health.
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