Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three children, faces extended jury deliberations after 85 witness testimonies.

“I WAS STRUGGLING WITH MY MENTAL HEALTH”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PROSECUTORS SAY LINDSAY CLANCY SENT HER THEN-HUSBAND OUT OF THE HOME TO KILL HER THREE CHILDREN BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO TAKE HER OWN LIFE, AND JURORS ARE NOW DELIBERATING THREE COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.

Lindsay Clancy’s trial is nearing its end after both sides delivered their final appeals to the jury.

The defense and prosecution have shared their closing arguments regarding whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children in January 2023.

Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the case.

On August 27, 2026, the jury began deliberations.

Spectators have been left wondering how long it will take for jurors to reach a verdict.

Legal expert Jennifer Roman weighed in on the timeline as the public awaits the outcome of the highly publicized case.

Roman is a legal analyst for WBZ-TV.

She told CBS News that it may take several days for the jury to reach a decision.

“I don’t think we’re seeing a verdict before Monday or Tuesday of next week,” Roman said in an interview published on August 28.

That interview was published on the second day of deliberations.

Roman explained that jurors typically conduct a straw poll at the outset to gauge where each person stands going into the decision-making process.

“Just by the sheer fact that they didn’t come back [Thursday] at 4:20 means they are not unanimous,” she said.

“Even if it’s not guilty by reason of insanity, it has to be unanimous.”

Roman added that coming to a verdict “takes time” because the jurors must weigh the testimony of 85 witnesses alongside the closing arguments.

“They have a lot of medical reports and notes and her journals,” Roman said.

“Although there’s not much of it, it’s going to take a while for them to get through it, and then they’re going to have to parse that out with the actual testimony,” Roman said.

On August 27, the panel was reduced from 18 jurors to 12.

The final seated jury consists of nine women and three men.

Roman said that the gender disparity “could work for either side.”

“Sometimes I think that women can be harsher on other women and hold them to a higher standard,” Roman said.

Yet Roman noted that female jurors might also relate directly to Clancy’s situation.

“Presumably some of them are mothers or are grandmothers,” she speculated.

“They may have had somebody in their life, including themselves, who may have suffered postpartum depression following a pregnancy or known someone who has and that could also color their perspective too.”

Roman predicted that the least likely outcome will be an outright verdict of not guilty.

She pointed to the fact that the defendant never denied killing her children.

Clancy’s defense team argued that she committed the killings due to her mental health struggles.

But the prosecution argued that Clancy must be held criminally responsible for the deaths.

Prosecutors believe Clancy sent her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the home so she could commit the killings, and that she attempted to take her own life afterwards.

Roman explained that the jury could potentially convict Clancy on a lesser charge of manslaughter.

She described that option as a “compromise position.”

“Maybe they don’t find that it was premeditated,” the legal expert said.

“Maybe they find that she was off, she was struggling, but she could still conform her conduct to the law,” Roman said.

“That’s your manslaughter charge.”

“I think it does give the jury a little bit more breathing room.”

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The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.