Lindsay Clancy Case: Psychologist Latisha Dukes Never Looked at Paul or Jollotta's Notes

Testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial keeps circling back to one question: who actually knew what, and when. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Under cross-examination today, Latisha Dukes, a counselor and psychologist at South Shore Hospital, confirmed she never reviewed the notes or records from Paul or Jollotta before treating Clancy — a gap defense attorneys clearly wanted the jury to sit with. Dukes testified Clancy feared getting addicted to Ativan just to be able to sleep, and that she was dealing with "unmanageable anxiety," depression, and both passive and active suicidal thoughts. On redirect, Dukes said skipping the prior notes was intentional — she wanted "fresh eyes" on the case — and added she had no role in managing Clancy's medications. Also on the stand: Duxbury Police Officer Cameron Dailey, who testified about being assigned to security detail watching Clancy at the hospital.

Prosecutors maintain Clancy understood the nature of her actions regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly tried to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands that day and has since moved to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks.

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