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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Testimony will resume on Monday (August 17) in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the judge dismissed the jury for the weekend on Thursday. Judge William F. Sullivan told the jurors to "take these next couple of days, rest up." Court will not be in session on Friday (August 14). "I know it's been a long couple of weeks for you. I appreciate all the work that you've done," Sullivan said. He said he wanted to "really" remind jurors of instructions he regularly reads them "because now we've got kind of a longer stretch that you're going to be at home, you're going to be talking to people." "So I just want to remind you: Do not talk about this case with anyone. Don't do any research about this case or similar cases. If you have any questions, don't do any research. Don't try and educate yourself on any of the issues or facts that you've heard so far in this case. Don't make any little road trips to go by any places or try and fill in any gaps," the judge said. Sullivan also told jurors "you have to still keep an open mind." "Alright? It was probably easy, easy to kind of nod and say yes when I said that at the very beginning of the case. But now you've you've heard a lot of evidence, but you haven't heard all the evidence. Alright?" he said. "You haven't heard the closing arguments of the attorneys. You haven't heard the law that you do apply. So I'm just reminding you have to do that. It's so important. And so I just kind of want to remind you on that." He again thanked the jurors "so much for so far all the work that you've done and all the work that you're going to do." "And so I hope you have a very nice weekend. And we will see you on Monday. Just in case you're wondering, we are still well on track. ... We'll see you on Monday. We'll continue with the trial at that point. And again, have a, have a nice weekend," he said. Prosecutors in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, are seeking three murder convictions against Clancy for the Jan. 24, 2023, strangulation deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. Her defense is that she's not guilty because she was in a psychosis related to postpartum problems and did not know what she was doing. Testimony began on July 27.