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Lindsay Clancy's civil lawyers speak after mistrial
Lawyers who said they're working on a civil case for Lindsay Clancy spoke after a mistrial was declared in her murder case. They said they're going after the medical system for failing Clancy and her children.
Minutes after a judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of Lindsay Clancy, her attorneys said their civil case against her medical providers will go on.
The murder trial of Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse who killed her three young children, has drawn widespread attention and sharp divisions over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible given her mental illness and pleas for help.
Lindsay Clancy’s civil lawsuit
After the murder trial ended Friday, two attorneys who filed a civil lawsuit against Clancy’s medical providers spoke outside the courthouse.
What they're saying:
"All this was caused by the failures of the medical profession," attorney Andrew Meyer said Friday outside the courthouse. "She wouldn't have been here, she wouldn't have gone through all she's gone through for the past years … they dropped the ball, they caused her to be here and everybody is suffering as a result."
Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors (out of frame) enter the courtroom during Clancy's murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2026. (Photo by Greg Derr / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Dig deeper:
According to WCVB, the lawsuit accuses Clancy’s doctors and mental health providers of failing to diagnose her with bipolar disorder and prescribing medications that "exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break." The lawsuit said Clancy was hearing commands from a man’s voice during her state of psychosis and could not control her body’s actions.
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"This is a nightmare that's never gonna end," attorney Rosemary Scapicchio said.
"We need to make sure that when there’s postpartum or maternal mental health, that these doctors start listening to women," Scapicchio said. "Because that’s not what they’re doing right now. And they’re doing a disservice to the entire population of women that need care after they have a child. And it’s so infuriating that not only do they not get care, but let’s just talk about the names that they label women that are either depressed or have hormonal imbalances. They call them ‘baby blues.’ Do you think for a second, if a man had an erectile dysfunction, they’d be calling it ‘penis blues’? No, because it minimizes what you’re suffering from. And we’re here to change that."
Lindsay Clancy mistrial
The backstory:
Clancy never disputed that she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan Clancy with exercise bands. But her attorney said she had a rare condition called postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids, then tried to take her own life in 2023.
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Deeply anxious about a planned return to work, unable to sleep and experiencing what she described as a disturbing brain fog, Clancy sought care from experts in postpregnancy mood disorders, who prescribed multiple psychiatric medications.
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Prosecution speaks after Clancy case ends in mistrial
The Plymouth County district attorney spoke after the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case.
Clancy’s family members testified that she expressed concern about her mental health decline. Her former mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, described her as a "very nurturing, very loving mother" who was "begging for help."
Her ex-husband Patrick Clancy, the trial’s first witness, has said in past interviews that he forgives her and believes her actions were the result of mental illness.
Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing when she contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.
What's next:
Friday’s mistrial, on the seventh day of deliberations, leaves the case unresolved. The prosecutor who originally decided to charge Clancy said there would not be an immediate decision about a second trial.
The Source: This article includes information from attorney Andrew Meyer, attorney Rosemary Scapicchio, WCVB, The Associated Press and previous FOX Local reporting.