Lindsay Clancy prosecutors ‘squeeze’ timeline from ex-husband as jury weighs ‘murder versus madness’: expert

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Patrick Clancy’s painstaking relationship of the nighttime his 3 children died whitethorn person fixed prosecutors their clearest model yet for arguing that Lindsay Clancy was lucid, deliberate and criminally liable astatine the clip of the killings, a ineligible adept says.

Testifying Wednesday successful Plymouth Superior Court, Patrick walked jurors infinitesimal by infinitesimal done the errands that took him distant from the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, location connected Jan. 24, 2023: a travel to CVS for a child’s stool softener, followed by a halt to prime up dinner.

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He said Lindsay called him backmost portion helium was wrong CVS, understood wherefore helium was determination and calmly approved a generic substitute. When helium returned home, helium recovered an eerily quiescent house, humor wrong the couple’s locked chamber and Lindsay injured beneath an unfastened second-story window.

Lindsay Clancy attends her execution proceedings astatine Plymouth Superior Court successful Plymouth connected July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan/Pool)

When Patrick recovered Lindsay Clancy lying connected her backmost beneath their chamber window, helium said she had heavy cuts connected her wrists and a reddish enactment crossed her neck.

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"What happened?" helium recalled asking her.

"I tried to termination myself," she responded, according to Patrick.

He past asked, "Where are the kids?"

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with 2 of their 3 children successful this undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)

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"They’re successful the basement," Lindsay told him.

Patrick testified that she did not accidental the children were injured, successful information oregon needed help.

The defence is expected to reason Clancy lacks transgression work due to the fact that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via Pool)

Attorney Shari Karney said those seemingly mundane details, the substance messages, telephone call, meal bid and timing of Patrick’s drive, whitethorn go captious arsenic prosecutors effort to beryllium Lindsay understood her actions erstwhile the children were strangled with workout bands.

"I telephone this lawsuit execution versus madness," Karney told Fox News Digital.

Exterior presumption of the location of Patrick and Lindsay Clancy successful Duxbury, MA connected Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

Karney said Patrick’s grounds mostly helped the prosecution due to the fact that it portrayed Lindsay arsenic responsive and organized soon earlier the killings. The state, she said, is attempting to "squeeze that timeline" arsenic tightly arsenic imaginable astir the precise infinitesimal the children were killed.

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"That’s reasonably lucid," Karney said of Lindsay’s quality to sermon the CVS acquisition and coordinate the takeout order.

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But the defence is expected to reason that competence during regular tasks does not found transgression work during the killings. Lindsay’s attorneys contend she suffered from terrible intelligence illness, including postpartum psychosis, and was impaired by a shifting regimen of psychiatric medications.

Patrick Clancy connected the stand. The Lindsay Clancy execution proceedings is held astatine Plymouth Superior Court successful Plymouth connected July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan/Pool)

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Patrick testified that Lindsay aboriginal told him she heard a man’s dependable telling her that if she did not enactment then, she would "lose her chance." He besides said she had ne'er antecedently told him she was proceeding voices oregon experiencing psychosis.

Karney said the lawsuit volition apt crook connected whether jurors presumption the killings arsenic a calculated enactment oregon "a catastrophic collapse" caused by terrible intelligence illness.

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The affectional stakes were connected show erstwhile prosecutors played Patrick’s 911 telephone for the jury. The signaling was barred from broadcast oregon reproduction nether a tribunal order, and the excavation camera remained trained connected Lindsay.

She sobbed and buried her look successful her hands arsenic the telephone played.

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Karney said that absorption could assistance some sides.

For the defense, she said, it humanized Lindsay arsenic a "shattered, broken" parent confronting the consequences of the worst nighttime of her life. For prosecutors, the aforesaid absorption captured the fearfulness of the killings.

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Before the signaling was played, Judge William Sullivan warned jurors not to let sympathy, anger, passionateness oregon pity to power their verdict.

"You indispensable not beryllium influenced successful immoderate mode by the unpleasant quality of immoderate of the evidence," Sullivan said, reminding jurors that their verdict indispensable not beryllium based connected "sympathy, anger, passionateness oregon prejudice oregon pity."

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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)

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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.