Lindsay Clancy's Jury Broke During the Worst Part

The families sat in the same gallery for five weeks at Plymouth Superior Court. Patrick Clancy's side and Lindsay's parents — Michael and Paula Musgrove — watched over eighty witnesses testify about the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the room for every session.

Bob joins Tony Brueski to describe what the broadcast could not capture. He walks through the jury's visible reactions during the prosecution's most difficult evidence — the autopsy testimony, the crime scene descriptions, and ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argument about how Lindsay used exercise bands on each child separately. Nine women and three men sat through all of it. Bob describes what their faces looked like.

He also describes Lindsay's in-person appearance and behavior throughout the trial — the moments she was composed, the moments she was not, and how she responded to specific testimony about her children. Bob addresses the gallery tension during recesses: the tension between the families, the energy between the legal teams, and the silence that filled the hallways when court was not in session.

There was a moment when the entire room shifted in one direction. Bob identifies it and explains what it told him about where the case was headed.

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