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Lindsay Clancy's mom testifies her daughter said she had "thoughts of harming the children"

CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi breaks down the latest testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial from Clancy's family members after the prosecution rested its case on Monday.

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Paula Musgrove stated her daughter had said medications were ‘destroying’ her mind and she was becoming ‘paranoid’ The defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first witnesses Monday, after three weeks of prosecution evidence laid out, in often harrowing detail, events surrounding Clancy’s killing of her three children. Under questioning from defense attorney David Redd…

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A judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's Massachusetts first-degree murder trial after the jury reported for a third time that it could not reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutor Timothy Cruz must now decide whether to retry Clancy on the murder charges, reduce the charges, or drop the case.

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A judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the jury deadlocked for a third time, and prosecutor Timothy Cruz must now decide whether to retry, reduce, or drop the charges.

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Lindsay Clancy had ‘thoughts of harming the children’, her mother testifies at trial

Paula Musgrove stated her daughter had said medications were ‘destroying’ her mind and she was becoming ‘paranoid’ The defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first witnesses Monday, after three weeks of prosecution evidence laid out, in often harrowing detail, events surrounding Clancy’s killing of her three children. Under questioning from defense attorney David Redd…

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