Jury Deliberations Underway in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial
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In order to reach a verdict, jurors must agree on whether Ms. Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children.
Listen · 4:59 min Share full article Jury deliberations are set to resume on Friday in the trial of Lindsay Clancy. Credit... Pool photo by Greg Derr By Jacey Fortin
After more than four weeks of often emotional testimony in the high-profile case , the lawyers on each side made their closing arguments at the courthouse in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday. It was their final opportunity to convince the jurors whether or not Ms. Clancy should be held criminally responsible for the children’s deaths.
Ms. Clancy does not deny that she killed the children at her home in Duxbury, Mass., an affluent Boston suburb, and has pursued an insanity defense. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, maintains that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and had experienced auditory hallucinations of a man’s voice ordering her to kill her children and then herself.
Mr. Reddington described Ms. Clancy on Thursday as “a darn good mother” and a respected nurse who loved her children. He read from a long list of medications that had been prescribed to Ms. Clancy in the months before the killings, arguing that she had received “lousy medical care” when she sought help for her anxiety.
“This young lady is not guilty of the killing of her children,” Mr. Reddington said, “because she was suffering from a disease and defect.”
Earlier on Thursday, the judge, William Sullivan of Plymouth County Superior Court, had told the jurors that Ms. Clancy could not be held criminally responsible if she had a mental disease or defect that prevented her from controlling her actions, or from distinguishing right from wrong.
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