The case of a Black mother whose life sentence was recently overturned after being convicted in the 2018 fatal stabbing of her two young sons shares striking parallels with the Lindsay Clancy case.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court vacated the 2022 conviction of Latarsha Sanders, 51, in August after finding that Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan wrongly prevented her defense from citing her medical records.
Sullivan was presiding over the trial of Clancy, a former Connecticut resident who prosecutors allege plotted to kill her three young children in 2023, when the state Supreme Judicial Court ruling was announced on Aug. 6. Both women are also being prosecuted by the office of Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz…