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Hearing today for Lindsay Clancy, mother accused in deaths of 3 kids
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Hearing Wednesday in case of Lindsay Clancy, Mass., mother accused in deaths of 3 children
Updated: 2:08 PM EST Dec 18, 2024
Less than a week after Lindsay Clancy’s defense notified the court about its defense strategy, the case will return to a Massachusetts courtroom on Wednesday afternoon for a hearing. Clancy is accused of strangling her three young children with exercise bands before jumping out of a window of the family’s home in 2023.Ahead of a case status conference, two new entries were added Friday to Clancy’s case in the Plymouth County Superior Court’s online docket. One document is labeled as the state’s motion for a trial date, and the other is a “Defendant’s Notice of lack of criminal responsibility.” It states, “Now comes the defendant, Lindsay Clancy, in the above captioned matter pursuant to Rule 14(b)(B) that statements of the defendant as to her mental condition will be relied upon by defendant’s expert witnesses and the defendant does intend to present to the Court a defense of lack of criminal responsibility.”Clancy was indicted on three counts each of murder and strangulation in the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 7-month-old son Callan.Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has previously asserted that Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression and was overmedicated on the day of the murders. Prosecutors have said she knew what she was doing, as she sent her husband out to pick up medicine and dinner, even mapping how long the trip would take.In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Patrick Clancy said he once asked his wife for answers.”I think one of the first things I asked was, ‘Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out?'” Clancy said. “She said, ‘No, it just was, like, a snap of the fingers.'”According to Massachusetts law, the defense only needs to make the argument that Lindsay Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. NewsCenter 5 legal experts said it will then be on the state to prove Clancy was sane and criminally responsible the night her children were killed.Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. —
Less than a week after Lindsay Clancy’s defense notified the court about its defense strategy, the case will return to a Massachusetts courtroom on Wednesday afternoon for a hearing.
Clancy is accused of strangling her three young children with exercise bands before jumping out of a window of the family’s home in 2023.
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Ahead of a case status conference, two new entries were added Friday to Clancy’s case in the Plymouth County Superior Court’s online docket. One document is labeled as the state’s motion for a trial date, and the other is a “Defendant’s Notice of lack of criminal responsibility.”
It states, “Now comes the defendant, Lindsay Clancy, in the above captioned matter pursuant to Rule 14(b)(B) that statements of the defendant as to her mental condition will be relied upon by defendant’s expert witnesses and the defendant does intend to present to the Court a defense of lack of criminal responsibility.”
Clancy was indicted on three counts each of murder and strangulation in the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 7-month-old son Callan.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has previously asserted that Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression and was overmedicated on the day of the murders. Prosecutors have said she knew what she was doing, as she sent her husband out to pick up medicine and dinner, even mapping how long the trip would take.
In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Patrick Clancy said he once asked his wife for answers.
“I think one of the first things I asked was, ‘Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out?'” Clancy said. “She said, ‘No, it just was, like, a snap of the fingers.'”
According to Massachusetts law, the defense only needs to make the argument that Lindsay Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. NewsCenter 5 legal experts said it will then be on the state to prove Clancy was sane and criminally responsible the night her children were killed.
Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.
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