In Lindsay Clancy’s Case, Both Sides Agree She Killed Her Children. Here’s What Will Decide Her Fate.

Professor Daniel Medwed is quoted in Boston.com on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, which begins this week. Medwed explains the nuances of Massachusetts’ insanity defense — technically called “lack of criminal responsibility” — and pushes back on a common misconception. “In TV and in the media, you think insanity is essentially a key to an acquittal, but it’s not” he said. “Even the outcome of a successful one is being dispatched to a secure mental health facility, often for an indefinite period of time.”