Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Hints At What’s To Come As Trial Nears Its End

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney took a moment to speak with reporters outside the courtroom Thursday morning to discuss what’s next for his client as the trial winds down to a close.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington began by saying it was “amazing” to see how much support there was for his client. A group of women in pink shirts gathered outside the courthouse to voice support for Clancy, the mother who strangled her three young children to death in January 2023.

Reddington told reporters that he plans to cross-examine the prosecution’s expert witnesses before presenting his closing statements. The attorney predicted the trial could end Monday.

When asked how the trial was going, Reddington said he’s “not exactly sure” but noted how the jurors have been “amazing” for devoting their time to the case and described them as “very, very attentive.” 

“It’s very moving for them. They don’t forget it,” he said of the trial.

The attorney said the case “shines a light” on the issue of mental health and said he believes that’s why the case has received so much attention nationwide.

“When a woman is going through what so many people do, and they go to a doctor and the doctor says, ‘Here, take this pill, take that pill, take this pill,’ and then they basically treat them for 15, 20 minutes and send them on their way … it’s just not right.” 

When asked how Clancy is doing, Reddington replied, “She’s so beat up and just so sad.”

Clancy strangled her children — Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) — to death with exercise bands in the basement of her Massachusetts home. Before the killings, she had sent her then-husband Patrick out for takeout and a pharmacy run. While he was gone, she killed the kids, cut her wrists, and jumped from a second-story window, rendering her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband returned from errands to discover his murdered children. 

The mom of three never denied killing her kids, but the topic of who’s to blame is central to the case. The defense has focused on the excessive cocktail of drugs Clancy was prescribed in the months leading up to the murders as she told healthcare professionals, friends, and family that she was suffering and had thoughts of harming the kids.

Prosecutors have been trying to convince the jury that Clancy knew what she was doing was wrong and that she should be held responsible.

If convicted of first-degree murder, she faces life in prison without parole. If found not criminally responsible, she could end up in a psychiatric facility and could be eligible for release at a future date.