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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The prosecutor questioning Rebecca Jollotta, the second psychiatrist nurse practitioner who saw Lindsay Clancy, followed up on the defense cross-examination by asking about the limited time Clancy spent at South Shore Perinatal Behavioral Health Clinic. "Lindsay Clancy was only a patient at the South Shore Perinatal Behavioral Health Clinic between November 20th and December 13th. Fair to say? Meaning, November 20 th is the first contact she had with Julie Paul, right? And December 13 is the last time that you met with her?" "Yes. 00:30 "And she came to that clinic not from a referral from somebody like Jennifer Tufts, correct?" "Correct." "And so your information about her contact with that psychiatrist is limited to what she shared with you?" "Correct." 02:42 "And as far as the going back through some of the medications, and you were read by counsel about on December 6 and 7 prescribing the same medication, is it common that you would change prescriptions to adjust for dosage?" "Yes." 03:24 "So on December 6 for the diazepam, you actually prescribed one pill?" "Yes." "And then December 7, two pills?" "Yes." "And then December 9, a different a five milligram dose, eight pills?" "Yes." "And then on December 30, I think it is two milligram dose, seven pills?" "Yes." 03:50 "And then the seroquel as well. On December or November 30, when you first prescribed that at that low 25 milligram dose for insomnia, she was given 30 pills?" "Yes." "And then when you changed the plan as of December 7, you had to give her a new prescription for a higher dose, didn't you?" "Yes." "So that's the 100 milligrams at 22 pills?" "Correct." 05:31 "In regards to her visit to women and infants in December, December 20, you had contact with Lindsey Clancy the next day, didn't you?" "I did." "And that was through the MyChart messaging." "Yes." "And she explained to you what happened at at Women and Infants." "Yes." "She gave you details about what they told her that she wasn't going to benefit from the groups, and that when she told them about her medication history or medication issues, that that they believed that that she should come off Seroquel." 07:24 "So upon her presentation at the clinic, and her initial focus of treatment, it was for postpartum depression and anxiety, was it not?" "Yes." "And as you began to have more contact with her, as you began to trial different medication regimens, is that when your differential diagnosis started to emerge?" "Yes." "And you responded to that appropriately with the medication you recommended, right?" "Yes." 08:02 "And when you after the Women and Infants program on December 20 th, you didn't see Lindsay Clancy again in the clinic, did you? Either telehealth or in person?" "No." "And the only contact you had with her was through the messages about the plan for tapering. Correct?" "Correct." "And while you were going to be away and not available to her, you still gave her a plan and a prescription to assist with tapering, didn't you?" "I did." "Was your clinic or your colleague still available for her if she needed it?" "Yes." 09:10 "Now, counsel went through with you the a call in which Patrick and Lindsay, or Lindsay, indicated to you that she was having panic symptoms and intrusive thoughts. You recall that?" "Yes." 09:25 "It means assessing immediate safety. For example, not to speak in hypothetical, but if somebody was saying, "I have a plan to kill myself. I have a knife. I am calling 911. I am sectioning that person. If somebody's saying, "I'm having thoughts of suicide, okay, what are they? Do you have a plan? Do you have intent? What I recall from Lindsay is she was having. Thoughts of suicide. She did not disclose a plan, no intent, and her husband was aware of this as well. He was on the call." 11:00 "And in your experience in treating individuals with postpartum psychosis, whether they hear voices or not, did you ever have any concerns based on your contact with Lindsay Clancy that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis?" "I did not." "I have nothing further." Kevin Reddington: "Feels as though she was, doesn't it?" Buckingham objects. Reddington withdraws question after Judge Williams Sullivan tells him to go to the lectern to ask his question.