The Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children and tried to kill herself appeared in court virtually today from her hospital bed as her attorneys revealed she is paralyzed.

Lindsay Clancy, 32, is charged with three counts of premeditated murder for strangling her three kids on January 29 at their family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Clancy's attorneys say she was severely depressed, suffering with post-partum depression and even psychosis, caused by a cocktail of prescription drugs that turned her into a 'shell' of herself and robbed her of her personality and ability to feel emotions.

They say Lindsay told her husband - who has forgiven her - she heard a 'man's voice' telling her to kill the children and then herself because it was her 'last choice'.

Prosecutors today launched a merciless prosecution, claiming she was well aware of what she was doing and that she even planned it out

They told the court she had been behaving normally in the days before the incident, and that she had only referred to having slight 'post-partum anxiety' in notes found on her iPhone.

They also referred to notes where she described 'resenting' the older two children because they stopped her from 'loving Callan like he was her first baby'.

Prosecutors say she deliberately sent her husband out to a takeout restaurant that was far enough away from the home to give her time to kill the kids, and even researched how long it would take him to drive there and back using Google Maps.

They also noted that she would have had to have strangled each child for several minutes with the exercise bands in order for them to stop breathing.

'The bands had to have been squeezing their minds for several minutes.

'She could have changed her mind,' they said, calling it a 'premeditated' crime with a 'extreme cruelty'.

They say the first thing Lindsay asked doctors in the hospital was whether she needed a lawyer, using a pen and whiteboard to scrawl out the question because she was intubated at the time.

They also claimed she'd been behaving normally all day before the attack, taking her kids to the pediatrician and then playing with them at the house.

Lindsay was denied bond but will be allowed to stay in hospital before being transferred to a rehab center. She was ordered to surrender her passport.

After attacking the children, Lindsay slit her wrists and then jumped from her bedroom window, landing in the family's backyard.

She suffered several spine fractures and is now a paraplegic, her attorney said.

'She is not OK, at all. She suffered several, severe spine fractions. She is not expected to recover meaningful function below that level of the spinal chord.

'She's paraplegic, unable to move her legs or feel sensation. She is paralyzed.

'She needs significant medical treatment,' he said, begging the court not to jail her and instead allow her to be sent to a medical rehab center.

Clancy's attorneys say she was overprescribed a cocktail of prescription drugs to treat post-partum depression, and that it had turned her into a 'zombie.'

In court today, her attorney Kevin J. Reddington, denied that the attacks were premeditated.

'We all know this is an individual who is in dire medical condition. This woman is a danger to herself. I question whether she would ever make it to a trial.

'She is suicidal, she is extremely emotional. She is unable to express any happiness or sadness or cry.'

He said she was 'thoroughly destroyed' by the cocktail of medications prescribed to her after her third child was born.

'Our society fails miserably in treating women with post partum depression or post partum psychosis.

'It's "medicate, medicate, medicate".

'Throw the pills at you and see how it works.'

Her husband Patrick has forgiven her, and is asking others to do the same.

Clancy's lawyer previously told a judge that the drugs Lindsay had been prescribed left her feeling feeling like a 'zombie'.

Investigators are now probing the theory that she might have been suffering from post-partum psychosis.

He also described the 'horrific' combination of prescription drugs Lindsay had been given.

Reddington says that between October and January, Clancy was prescribed a dozen medications: Zolpidem which is sold under the brand name ******, clonazepam, which is sold under the brand name of Klonopin, diazepam which is sold under the brand name ******, fluoxetine which is sold under the brand name Prozac, lamotrigine, which is sold under the brand name Lamictil, lorazepam, which is sold under the brand name ******, mirtazapine, which is sold under the brand name Remeron, quetiapine fumarate, which is sold under the brand name Seroquel, and trazodone.

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