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2 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Lindsay Clancy, the US woman accused of murdering her three children, has appeared in court for the first time since her murder trial fell apart earlier this month.
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Her defence team on Tuesday argued the judge should dismiss her case but prosecutors said the state had "met its burden" in proving her guilt.
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state → argue → guilt
Clancy, 36, does not deny killing her three children in 2023, but her defence team argues she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
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she → deny → time
Prosecutors say the killings were intentional.
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killings → say → ?
It is still not clear if she will face a retrial.
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she → face → retrial
The request to dismiss the case is among those that will be discussed at a hearing on 2 November, Judge William Sullivan said.
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One of the motions addressed on Tuesday was from Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who asked for her to be found not guilty under Rule 25 - a Massachusetts motion that states a defendant should be found not guilty if prosecutors do not argue their case effectively.
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Reddington also brought a new defence forward arguing there was not enough evidence to prove Clancy killed her children.
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"This entire case is based on speculation," he said.
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It was a change of argument from the defence lawyer, who during the trial focused on Clancy's mental health - urging the jury to find her not criminally responsible because of it.
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Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called Reddington's argument "laughable".
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She said state prosecutors had presented numerous pieces of evidence showing Clancy was in a healthy mental state at the time of the murders during the trial.
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"The Commonwealth met its burden," Buckingham said.
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Buckingham → meet → burden
She argued Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months, in their Massachusetts home.
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Judge Sullivan pushed back when both Reddington and Buckingham refused to agree to his suggestion that they might agree to a possible retrial date now ahead of the hearing, saying he wanted to "get this thing moving".
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He asked both sides to be prepared to discuss possible trial dates at the November hearing.
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Reddington said he would be unable to go to trial until at least June if the case is retried.
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District Attorney Timothy Cruz told reporters outside after court that prosecutors have not yet decided if they are going to retry Clancy on murder charges.
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"We're doing our due diligence, we're going to continue doing that," he said.
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"We're going to do what we can for the children.
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we → go → children
That's what this case is about."
Following a week of deliberations earlier this month, a Massachusetts jury told Sullivan they could not reach a verdict because of a lone holdout juror and a mistrial was declared on 4 September.
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