A jury is to determine whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was being treated for postpartum mental health issues when she killed the children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan is presiding over the jury trial, which began on July 27 and is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington began his closing argument in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial this morning by thanking the jurors and telling them that the victims are her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. "She knows loss," Reddington said. "They are the victims of this case. They are the victims of the horrible, horrific act that has been laid at your feet as jurors to decide whether or not Lindsay is guilty." In most states, prosecutors argue first, then give a rebuttal argument after the defense closing argument. In Massachusetts, the defense argues first, then the prosecution so they can address anything the defense raised. There is no rebuttal. Reddington spoke for 52 minutes. This is his entire argument. 03:16 " I don't care how many cops you have in here, how many DAs are sitting here, how many people are sitting in the front row, and they're all going to sit there and be proud of this prosecution. I told you in the opening statement that this is a prosecution that has ripped the soul out of this girl." 10:21 "She made a very, very significant suicide effort, slashing her wrist, slitting her throat, and isn't it interesting when you consider objective evidence, googling, slitting a throat, Googling suicide. Googling drugs. Googling side effects. Googling ketamine treatments. Googling all of these drugs. Googling the effects of Tufts medications: lorazepam, sertraline, hydroxazine, lorazepam, busparone, lorazepam, busparone, trazadone, floccapine, zolpidem, murdazine, clonazazepam, quidopane, diazepam, diazepam, creatipine. It goes on and on and on and on and on." 16:42 "There are two things here. Number one, proof beyond a reasonable doubt that she's guilty, and number two, proof beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not suffering from a disease or defect, as his honor instructed you at the time of these killings." "Those are the two things they have to prove. And when the police charge somebody with a criminal offense. They have an obligation to investigate." "At the end of the day, when you're talking about well, we've got charges are before the court. You can sit there in the court. You can feel proud of yourself. Do a good investigation. Even though, with this, you'll see the photograph of the cup and the powder. What is it? What is? They don't even analyze it. Did they take pictures? Did they analyze? Did they test the blood? Did they lousy investigation in this case? Well, that's okay because she was guilty, and they put her in the hospital, and she's the evil woman who killed the three innocent kids, and they're going to stand there while she's chained to the bed, paralyzed." 20:58 "Dr. ... Indian woman, wicked impressive. She was amazing. She had the facts. She was able to tell you exactly what she observed. He was able to tell you what they were doing to treat Lindsey. She treated her like a human being. She was a damn good doctor. Came in here and told you all of her observations about her, and told you one of the things that ultimately that they were concerned about is they had to have this big confabulation about we're going to take her off the what is it the healthcare proxy." "They had to have lawyers. They had to have people there. They had to have her signing documents. They had to determine whether or not she was going to be signing something to have her parents take over, because Pat was not going to be responsible for her care. Lawyers, cops, handcuffs. Do I need a lawyer? Write that down. We're right. You're out there somewhere. Write that down. Boy, she wanted a lawyer. That's a bad thing. Must be guilty. Let's put that in the guilty pile. That's why she said that in a delirious state, dealing with all of these people about that issue." 26:26 "You have the medical records. You heard the testimony. You know her concerns. You know her fears. Does this seem like a young lady that didn't care and wanted to score more drugs off somebody? That's another repulsive allegation. I think the evidence is pretty clear. There's no basis for that at all." 31:10 "She was cooperative. She was pleasant. She was friendly. She answered the questions, and she owned what she did. She never ran from anything. She's gone through valuation after evaluation after evaluation. Recorded. You'll have the video to look at as they're questioning her as she's sitting there in her wheelchair hour after hour after hour three years after this incident. But that's okay, they're busy." 44:36 "You should look at the way they treat pregnant women that have problems with their children. No, we're the most advanced country in the world, but we still have doctors that come into court on a murder trial and talk about four-week cutoff on something that they don't even know exists. They've never treated it. They've never written about it." 49:07 "My God, she actually Googled the time frame that Patrick would take to go to ThreeV and pick up the food and then leave and stop at CVS on the way..."