Lindsay Clancy defense scores ‘extremely helpful’ psychosis concession as expert flags next hurdle

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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer sought to blunt prosecutors’ portrayal of the Massachusetts parent arsenic organized and calculating, pressing a infirmary psychiatrist to admit that a idiosyncratic tin communicate, marque plans and transportation them retired portion experiencing psychosis.

"People tin pass and program and enactment connected plans adjacent if they’re successful the mediate of a psychosis, right?" defence lawyer Kevin Reddington asked Dr. Sejal Shah Monday.

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"Yes," Shah replied.

Defendant Lindsay Clancy connected Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, the 5th time of grounds astatine Plymouth Superior Court for her execution trial. Clancy is charged with 3 counts of execution successful transportation with the decease of her 3 young children successful 2023 astatine their Duxbury home. Clancy says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

Reddington past asked whether idiosyncratic indispensable beryllium "drooling and stumbling and incapable to locomotion and talk" to beryllium psychotic. Shah said nary and agreed that a idiosyncratic successful psychosis tin inactive pass with others.

Clancy is charged successful the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, wrong the family’s Duxbury home. Her defence maintains she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors reason she acted deliberately and understood what she was doing.

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Dr. Sejal Shah testified she examined Clancy aggregate times astatine Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital successful January and February 2023. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

Seth J. Zuckerman, a personage transgression defence attorney, erstwhile New York City authoritative and laminitis of Zuckerman Legal Group, said the lawsuit volition crook connected Clancy’s intelligence authorities astatine the precise clip the children were killed.

"What was successful her caput astatine the nonstop clip that she killed her children?" Zuckerman told Fox News Digital.

He said prosecutors person focused connected Patrick Clancy’s trips to CVS and a section restaurant, on with his communications with his wife, to represent her arsenic lucid during the captious clip frame.

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Shah, an subordinate main of psychiatry and medicine astatine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, archetypal evaluated Clancy 5 days aft the killings.

She testified that Clancy was confused, made mistakes during a cognitive appraisal and had experienced ocular hallucinations aft spinal surgery.

Shah diagnosed delirium and said imaginable causes included anesthesia, oxygen problems and an elevated bosom rate. The symptoms resolved by the pursuing day, Shah said.

Prosecutors argued successful opening statements that Lindsay Clancy "deliberately and meticulously" killed her children and "acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to execute a precise circumstantial goal." (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

During aboriginal evaluations, Clancy appeared calm and cooperative, displayed organized and goal-directed reasoning and denied hallucinations and suicidal oregon homicidal intent.

Reddington utilized cross-examination to reason those observations did not found Clancy was escaped of psychosis astatine the clip of the killings.

"Was she, successful your sentiment and your experience, an honorable diligent telling you what her symptoms were, if any?" Reddington asked.

"Yes," Shah said.

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"She didn’t spell disconnected and effort to exaggerate to you and say, ‘I’m seeing visions and I’m proceeding voices,’ and suicidal ideation and homicidal ideas," Reddington said. "She didn’t accidental immoderate of those things to you, did she?"

"Correct," Shah said.

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"So this is not, successful your opinion, idiosyncratic who was trying to exaggerate her conditions for immoderate ineligible reason, correct?" Reddington asked.

"No," Shah replied.

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Zuckerman called that concession "extremely adjuvant to the defense," though not decisive.

"They privation to represent her arsenic idiosyncratic who wasn’t manipulative, who didn’t person immoderate expansive plan," helium said.

Lindsay Clancy appears successful tribunal Monday successful Plymouth, Massachusetts. She has pleaded not blameworthy to 3 counts of execution for the killings of her children. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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On redirect, prosecutors challenged the defense’s portrayal by focusing connected Clancy’s medicine history.

Shah agreed Clancy was not taking each psychiatric medicine discussed astatine the aforesaid clip and said she had not known immoderate prescriptions were hardly utilized oregon untouched.

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Shah besides confirmed that Clancy requested do-not-resuscitate presumption aft surviving her autumn from a second-story window. The infirmary did not instantly alteration her presumption due to the fact that of the reported termination attempt.

Shah said Clancy aboriginal agreed her intelligence wellness should beryllium stabilized earlier reconsidering the request.

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Zuckerman said Monday’s cross-examination helped the defence by supplying grounds that Clancy could look lucid astatine immoderate moments portion experiencing terrible psychiatric symptoms astatine others.

Still, helium said its worth volition beryllium connected whether the defence tin link those symptoms to the infinitesimal the children were killed.

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"The load is connected the prosecutors to amusement that she was criminally liable astatine the clip of the deaths," Zuckerman said. "That is unsocial to Massachusetts, and I deliberation it’s beneficial to the defence here."

On January 24, 2023, Clancy fatally strangled her 3 children successful the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, location utilizing workout absorption bands. She past chopped her wrists and cervix and jumped from a second-story model successful a termination attempt, leaving her partially paralyzed. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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Clancy, a erstwhile labour and transportation caregiver astatine Massachusetts General Hospital, has pleaded not blameworthy to 3 counts each of execution and strangulation. Judge William Sullivan told jurors that the Commonwealth indispensable beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that Clancy was criminally liable erstwhile the children were killed.