Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband details pill use as expert says evidence could shape murder trial

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Prosecutors appeared to statesman chipping distant astatine the defense’s portrayal of Lindsay Clancy arsenic overmedicated, walking jurors done 9 medicine bottles that inactive contained galore of the pills she had been given.

Patrick Clancy testified Monday that his ex-wife had been prescribed galore psychiatric medications successful the months earlier the deaths of their 3 young children. But nether questioning from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham, helium acknowledged that respective prescriptions had been lone partially used.

"So determination were a batch of pills prescribed, but not a batch of pills taken. Correct?" Buckingham asked, holding up a container of medicine medications.

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Assistant Plymouth County District Attorney Jennifer Sprague entering a container of medicine pills that were prescribed to Lindsay Clancy into grounds during the archetypal time of her trial. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

"Is that comprehensive?" Patrick responded. "Of each the pills that were prescribed?"

"These are the pills that you brought into the constabulary station," Buckingham said. "So retired of these."

"Out of those, yeah," Patrick said. "It’s imaginable that not a batch were taken."

Buckingham besides sought to separate betwixt the full fig of medications prescribed implicit respective months and however galore Lindsay was prescribed astatine 1 time.

Patrick estimated that she was taking 3 oregon 4 medications astatine most. Buckingham past asked whether it would astonishment him to larn that Lindsay was prescribed nary much than 3 medications astatine immoderate fixed clip and usually two.

Patrick Clancy took the basal Monday and described watching his woman autumn into a "big spiral" earlier she allegedly strangled their 3 young children wrong the family’s Massachusetts home. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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"It wouldn’t beryllium terribly surprising, no," Patrick said.

Former national authoritative Neama Rahmani said the questioning appeared designed to forestall the defence from controlling however jurors presumption the cocktail of medications that Lindsay Clancy was prescribed successful the months earlier authorities accidental she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, wrong the family’s Duxbury location successful January 2023.

Lindsay Clancy reacts arsenic the details of her children's deaths are work successful tribunal connected Monday. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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"An important portion of being a bully authoritative is not conscionable proving your case, but anticipating the defense’s arguments," Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital. "The prosecution wants to get retired up of that perchance atrocious grounds by arguing that adjacent though she was prescribed each these meds, she wasn't prescribed them astatine the aforesaid time. At most, she was prescribed two, three, possibly 4 medications astatine erstwhile and importantly, she wasn't taking them."

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Rahmani said prosecutors appeared to beryllium getting up of the defense’s assertion that Lindsay’s changing prescriptions contributed to her alleged psychosis.

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"The past happening you privation is the defence to summation power of the cardinal portion of evidence," helium said. "It tin beryllium O.J.’s mitt oregon a container of pills."

Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington shows a database of medications prescribed to Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of sidesplitting her children, during his opening connection successful Clancy's execution proceedings astatine Plymouth Superior Court, successful Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S., July 27, 2026.

Rahmani said the adjacent signifier volition apt absorption connected however agelong Lindsay took each medication, erstwhile she stopped taking it and however galore drugs she was prescribed astatine once.

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"It’s not uncommon for psychiatrists to effort antithetic medications and halt them erstwhile they halt working," helium said. "So however agelong was she connected the Zoloft versus the Ativan versus the Seroquel? How galore pills was she taking? I deliberation the prosecution is gonna reason that Lindsay and her doctors were trying to get her better, and the information that she wasn't connected each these pills astatine erstwhile truly shows that the defence is trying to mislead the jury."

Lindsay Clancy's execution proceedings is expected to past six to 8 weeks, and the witnesser database contains much than 200 names. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via Pool)

The defence has argued that Lindsay was suffering from psychosis and was not criminally liable erstwhile she strangled her 3 young children. Prosecutors, meanwhile, framed the ma of 3 arsenic a calculated killer, saying that Clancy's children were "deliberately and meticulously killed."

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Buckingham alleged that Clancy deliberately sent Patrick from their Duxbury location to prime up medicine and takeout food, giving herself capable clip to strangle each kid with an workout set earlier attempting to termination herself.

Patrick Clancy exits Plymouth Superior Court, Plymouth, Mass., Monday, July27, 2026. His ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, is connected proceedings for the execution of their 3 children. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

During opening statements, defence lawyer Kevin Reddington conceded that Clancy killed the children but argued that the lone meaningful quality is what was happening wrong her mind.

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"She knows that she killed these children," Reddington told jurors. "The contented for information is what was going connected successful that woman’s mind."

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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.

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Judge William Sullivan told jurors that the Commonwealth indispensable beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that Clancy was criminally liable erstwhile the children were killed.