波士顿，10月1日——马萨诸塞州一名负责林赛·克兰西（Lindsay Clancy）谋杀案审判的法官周四驳回了其辩护律师提出的无罪判决请求，称检方已提供了充分证据，足以让陪审团认定她应对2023年杀害其三个年幼子女的行为负责。
BOSTON, Oct 1 - A Massachusetts judge who oversaw Lindsay Clancy's murder trial rejected a request on Thursday by her lawyers to declare her not guilty of murder, saying prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for a jury to find her responsible for killing her three young children in 2023.
克兰西的律师此前曾敦促普利茅斯（Plymouth）的威廉·沙利文（William Sullivan）法官作出结论，认为尽管克兰西患有他们所称的心理疾病，但检方未能证明她应为子女的死亡承担刑事责任。此前，由于陪审团未能达成一致，沙利文于9月4日宣布审判无效。
Clancy's lawyers had urged Judge William Sullivan in Plymouth to conclude that prosecutors had failed to prove she could be held criminally responsible for her children's deaths despite suffering from what they said was mental illness. Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jury deadlocked.
在那场审判中，无人对以下事实提出异议：2023年1月24日，克兰西在波士顿郊区达克斯伯里（Duxbury）的家中地下室用健身带勒死了她的三个孩子。随后，她用刀割伤自己并从二楼窗户跳下试图自杀，导致瘫痪。
No one at that trial disputed that Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands on January 24, 2023, in the basement of their home in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. She then cut herself with a knife and jumped from a second-story window in an attempt to end her own life, leaving her paralyzed.
但在本周早些时候的庭后听证会上，克兰西的律师辩称，检方在审判期间未能提供任何证据证明是她杀害了5岁的科拉（Cora）、3岁的道森（Dawson）以及8个月大的卡兰（Callan）。
But Clancy's lawyers contended at a post-trial hearing earlier this week that prosecutors had failed to present any evidence during the trial proving she had killed Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan.
他们还辩称，证据显示克兰西当时正处于产后精神病发作期，应被认定因精神错乱而无罪，即马萨诸塞州法律所称的“缺乏刑事责任能力”。
They also argued the evidence showed Clancy was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, known in Massachusetts as lack of criminal responsibility.
然而，沙利文表示，检方已经提供了足够的物证和间接证据，足以让陪审团得出结论：克兰西就是勒死孩子的人，并应对杀害他们的行为承担刑事责任。
Sullivan, though, said prosecutors had presented enough physical and circumstantial evidence to allow a jury to conclude that Clancy was the one who strangled the children and was criminally responsible for killing them.
他援引了控方专家证人的证词，称他们“作证表示，他们的观点是被告并未丧失理解其行为的犯罪性或错误性的实质能力”。沙利文写道：“尽管被告也传唤了不同意控方专家意见的专家证人，但事实认定者有权决定对这些证据给予很少或不予采信。”辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿没有立即回应置评请求。
He cited testimony by the prosecution's expert witnesses who "testified that it was their opinion that the defendant did not lack substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality or wrongfulness of her conduct." "Although the defendant also produced expert witnesses who disagreed with the Commonwealth's experts, it is within the discretion of the fact finder to place little or no weight on that evidence," Sullivan wrote. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
普利茅斯县地区检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹的办公室尚未公布拟对这名36岁被告进行重审的计划。沙利文在星期二举行的听证会上强调，他不希望案件长期悬而未决，并要求各方准备好在11月2日的听证会上讨论重审日期。如果克兰西被判定犯有一级谋杀罪，将面临终身监禁。
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz's office has yet to lay out its plans for a potential retrial of the 36-year-old. Sullivan at a hearing on Tuesday stressed that he did not want the case to linger and told the parties to be ready to discuss a date for a retrial at a November 2 hearing. If convicted on first-degree murder charges, Clancy would face a sentence of life in prison.
初次审判后，多名陪审员在电视采访中表示，要不是有一名陪审员坚持己见，他们原本准备以精神错乱为由判定克兰西无罪。
Several jurors in televised interviews after the initial trial said that but for the one holdout juror, they had been prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.
如果法院以此理由判她无罪，她将被送入州立精神病院接受评估。此后，法院将定期审查她的住院收治情况。
If found not guilty on those grounds, she would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital for evaluation. Her commitment would then be subject to regular review by the court.