Potential Lindsay Clancy jurors keep fleeing because of how horrible the case is: I just dont know if I can handle it

Potential jurors in the Lindsay Clancey case keep leaving the Massachusetts courtroom in tears after having to contemplate the murders of Clancey’s three young children.“I just don’t know if I can handle being on the jury,” the emotional man, who had previously been selected to serve on the jury, told Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan Wednesday.The man then became one of more than 250 potential deciders who have been excused from the arduous jury selection process since it began Monday.Ten women and seven men have been selected so far to decide the wheelchair-bound 35-year-old’s fate over the fatal strangling of her three small children.The judge plans to pick 18 people to serve in the jury pool — 12 of whom will be selected for the jury when it’s time to render a verdict.Clancey’s defense has argued the former nurse killed the children while she was in the throes of a postpartum psychotic state that was made worse by her doctors.While another jury candidate wept while leaving the courtroom Wednesday afternoon, Clancy was seen frowning while waiting for the jury to be picked.Clancy, clad in a green blouse with lace sleeves, appeared to glare intensely at potential jurors and occasionally look over at her defense attorney from her counsel table and, later, the witness stand.The Wednesday hearing came to a close without seating the final juror by around 4 p.m., and was expected to continue again starting Thursday morning.Prospective jurors have been required to answer questions about whether they could remain impartial during the trial, whether they are close with anyone who has suffered from mental health or postpartum issues and whether they are open-minded about the defense’s insanity argument, according to local news outlet WCVB 5.They’re also required to disclose whether they have any relationship to Clancey or any witnesses who are expected to testify.Each is then called to speak with attorneys from both the defense and th...