Good news for Lindsay Clancy? Postpartum defense works for killer mom

A New York City woman who killed her two young sons was found not responsible by mental disease or defect, raising the possibility that Lindsay Clancy, whose fate is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury, might also be found not guilty of the brutal murder of her three kids.

Psychiatric experts for both the prosecution and defense determined that Dimone Fleming, 26, stabbed her two children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada as a result of postpartum psychosis, the same medical condition from which Clancy’s defense team says she suffered, causing her murderous actions. ---More...