Overview
- Prosecutors entered a nolle prosequi on three separate strangulation counts, saying those counts are duplicative because the murder indictments allege the children were killed by strangulation.
- Clancy still faces three counts of first‑degree murder for the Jan. 24, 2023 deaths of her children and has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
- The prosecution alleges she killed the children with exercise bands and then attempted suicide, while the defense plans an insanity plea that cites postpartum illness, auditory hallucinations and heavy medication.
- Pretrial preparations continue with a judge‑approved site visit to the Duxbury home and nearby locations, more than 200 people on combined witness lists, and a pending judicial review of the husband’s 911 call for possible use at trial.
- Clancy is confined to a wheelchair and held under supervised treatment at Tewksbury State Hospital, and a guilty verdict would carry life without parole while a legal finding of incompetence would likely lead to psychiatric commitment rather than prison.