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Lindsay Clancy Seeks to Delay 2026 Trial to May as Defense Preps Insanity Case

The defense seeks extra time to complete required evaluations before filing substantive motions.

Overview

  • In a Norfolk Superior Court filing, Clancy’s attorney asked to move the 2026 start of trial to no earlier than May 11.
  • The motion cites pending government psychiatric evaluations, consultations with a toxicologist and a psychopharmacologist, and the need to prepare substantive pretrial motions.
  • Her legal team plans to pursue an insanity defense that argues she could not conform her behavior to the law at the time of the killings.
  • Clancy remains held at Tewksbury Hospital receiving mental‑health treatment and is paralyzed and wheelchair‑bound after a 2023 jump from a second‑floor window.
  • She has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder; prosecutors allege the children were strangled with exercise bands and note seven medications detected in blood samples taken hours after the attacks.