Lindsay Clancy's defence shifts strategy in bid to avert retrial | ABC NEWS
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The lawyer for a woman accused of murdering her three children in the US says there isn't enough evidence to prove his client killed them — a striking turn after a lengthy trial focused more on Lindsay Clancy's mental state than whether she took their lives. "This entire case is based on speculation," attorney Kevin Reddington said, during the first hearing since Clancy's initial trial ended on September 4 with a deadlocked jury. During the trial, he didn't dispute that Clancy killed the children at the family's home in 2023, instead seeking to persuade a jury to find her not criminally responsible because of mental disease — a rare condition called postpartum psychosis, according to the defence. But in the wake of a mistrial with the jury split 11 to 1 in Clancy's favour, Mr Reddington sought to persuade Judge William Sullivan to acquit her. There was, Mr Reddington contended, not enough evidence "that this woman killed those children". He pointed to matters ranging from her cond
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