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 judge in Lindsay Clancy's trial sent the jury out of the courtroom so he could probe the admissibility of testimony about pooice investigating whether a defense-hired psychologist possibly suggested Clancy tell investigators she heard voices before she killed her three young children. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington ended up asking a few questions about it in front of the jury, but not as detailed as in voir dire. 00:49 "Media was absolutely insane all over the the location of the house and in the hospitals and everywhere. Isn't that right?" "I recall media at the house. I'm not sure about the hospitals." 02:21 "Any shoes? Did she have any shoes, sneakers, slippers, anything like that?" "I don't recall shoes. I think two black socks, but I don't recall shoes." 03:10 "You knew that you had a search warrant that authorized the search for a number of items, including medications or pills or pill bottles, right?" "Yes." 05:23 "There was a phone located on the bed. I think there was another phone located in a dresser drawer. I'm not sure which phone was what, though." "So both of those phones, regardless which one was what, did either one of them have blood on them?" "I don't recall." 07:22 "She was actually in the bed with all again tubes and all sorts of things coming out of her body when you saw her, right?" "Yeah, she was in the hospital bed." "And she was in a in like an emergency room. It was a little small room with a lot of machines in it that took up a lot of space, right?" "I don't think she was in the emergency room." 08:23 "So she had been transferred out of South Shore Hospital. She was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital. You went to Brigham and Women's Hospital. I imagine you had to go through security to get in there, right? Well, your badge, right?" "At some point, yeah, we were probably assisted with security to get in." "Well, you know, you know that nobody could get access to Lindsay Clancy in that hospital, and I mean nobody, right?" "Correct." "And this went on for day after day after day, to your knowledge, facilitating, right?" "Correct." 10:06 "You were involved in this investigation pretty intensely, working with the DA's office, right?" "Correct." 10:32 outside the jury's presence: attorneys question Lawlor as judge decides if this specific topic will be allowed before the jury. 12:06 "And you guys would talk about theories of the case and evidence that they want you to run down, perhaps as an investigator, or try to obtain or interviews and things of that nature, right?" "Yes." "And one of the theories that they had indicated to you is that Patrick Clancy had indicated to to the investigators and to the grand jury, I believe, that Lindsay called him from the hospital, right?" "I recall that." "And that Lindsay used that doctor's cell phone to call him from the hospital, right?" "Yes." "And they basically had a theory that they wanted to run with that [the doctor] told her, Lindsay, to say that she heard voices. Right?" "I don't know if it's a theory or not. I just recall that conversation at some point." 13:29 "I don't recall specifically speaking to a prosecutor about this." 14:40 " I just recall the facts that the facts are communicated to me that there was a phone call between Lindsay and Patrick." 15:07 "And what is it that he discussed with you about Lindsay hearing voices?" "That that's what she had told Patrick on the phone call that she heard voices." 15:16 "And when she told Patrick that she heard that on the phone call, the prosecution determined that it was Zell — whoever that doctor was, you don't recall, that told her to say that for some type of a defense, right?" "I don't know what the prosecution determined. All I can say is that's what I recall the conversation between Lindsay and Patrick." 15:45 "And the conversation also included the fact that it was the psychologist that planted that idea in her mind. Is that's the theory, isn't it?" "That would be the theory..." 16:41 prosecutor questions Lawlor 17:29 "And in fact, you don't know anything about whether there's any evidence about Dr. Zeizel giving or prompting the defendant to have that conversation with her husband. Do you?" "No." "All you know factually is what came out of the investigation from what Patrick said the call was, and who he said the call was from, and how the call occurred. Correct?" "Correct." In front of the jury: 21:28 "as the lead investigator, told you in a conversation, or perhaps more than one, that the government theory is that Dr. Zayzel told Lindsay to say to her husband that she heard voices. Right?" 23:40 " do you remember how many days it was that you were assisting in the custody situation of Lindsay before she was allowed to have family and me and different people visit with her?" ... "Less than a week." 24:43 re-direct