If jurors find Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for strangling her three children, her civil commitment to a mental institution could come up for review every year — making it difficult to predict how long she could remain hospitalized, according to a retired judge.

Clancy would not face “a ‘life sentence in a public mental hospital,'” Carol Erskine, a retired Massachusetts judge and child welfare advocate, wrote in a post on X. “She could remain hospitalized for many years — even indefinitely — but only as long as the legal criteria for civil commitment continue to be met.”

The first move is in the trial judge’s hands, Erskine later…

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