The Lindsay Clancy case recently ended in a mistrial where 11 jurors believed that she should be acquitted due to insanity based on the defense of postpartum psychosis. Therefore, with the jury... Read more »
This is Part 3 of a series on the controversial Lindsay Clancy case. Read Part 2 here. The crucial question of whether Lindsay Clancy was or was not psychotic at the time... Read more »
Human beings have a psychological need for certainty, for closure, that frequently outruns the evidence that would make such certainty reasonable. This is a special problem in criminal justice. Hundreds of DNA-based... Read more »
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has captured national attention. When a mother in suburban Duxbury, Massachusetts, seemingly picture-perfect with three young children, strangles her three children (ages 8 months, 3, and 5),... Read more »
Ambition used to be a virtue. Somewhere along the way, it became a vice. Once a cornerstone of the American ethos—synonymous with self-reliance, upward mobility, and personal agency—ambition is now more often... Read more »