Lindsay Clancy case isnt complicated. She murdered her kids there is only one logical verdict

After six days of deliberations and multiple notes to the judge about a deadlock, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial appears to be poised for a mistrial.One headline read, “Lindsay Clancy’s attorney says Clancy would not be able to ‘emotionally handle’ another trial.”No similar headlines ran about her ex-husband and the father of her children, Patrick Clancy.Her three murdered children, age five and under, are forever unavailable for comment.What’s astounding about the complexity of this case is just how simple it is.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty not because she claims she is not the perpetrator of the heinous crime, but because she was rendered incapacitated by postpartum psychosis.The question before the jury isn’t simply whether Clancy was mentally ill: It’s well documented that she was struggling profoundly in the months before the killings.The question the jury is grappling with is whether her mental state left her incapable of understanding the wrongfulness of what she was doing, and unable to control her actions.And on that question, the defense did not make a convincing case.Start with Clancy’s actions on the day she killed her children.The evidence presented at trial points not to an uncontrollable eruption of psychosis, but to careful planning and purposeful behavior.Clancy calculated how long it would take her husband to pick up dinner, added a stop at CVS to his errand, and thereby created a window in which she would be alone with their three children long enough to harm them.She then brutally strangled each of them with exercise bands.When Patrick called home while he was out, Clancy answered the phone and spoke to him so calmly that he didn’t suspect anything was amiss.Prosecutors argued that the call must have occurred while the killings were underway.This is a woman capable of thinking about time, distance and opportunity; of engineering her husband’s absence; and of interacting with him while carrying out the acts she...