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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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Lindsay Clancy remains under indictment after her first-degree murder trial ended in a mistrial, and a Massachusetts judge is now weighing her defense's motion to dismiss the charges. Prosecutors have said they plan to retry her, with the judge indicating he is leaning toward a March retrial date.

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Prosecutors announced plans to retry Lindsay Clancy, with the judge leaning toward a March retrial, while her defense argued at a September hearing that there was no direct evidence and a retrial would violate double jeopardy.

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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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