Why Lindsay Clancy's Three Words Could Decide Her Verdict

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial now turns on a sentence she said in her basement on January 24, 2023. The Plymouth County DA's psychiatric expert, Dr. Avram Mack, testified she told him she said "go to God" as she strangled each child, and he told the jury that proves she understood her actions were wrong.

Hours earlier, defense psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick told the same jury she was frankly psychotic that day, heard a command, felt her body controlled by an outside force like a puppet, and believed sending her children to heaven was the right thing to do. He examined her four months after the deaths. Mack first met her more than three years later.

Mack conceded a severe major depressive episode but found no psychosis and no mania in the months before the killings. He testified that psychosis on its own doesn't prevent someone from knowing right from wrong. Tony Brueski argues that line does as much damage to the prosecution as to the defense, because the state spent eighteen days proving Clancy wasn't psychotic and the jury will be instructed that capacity, not diagnosis, is the question.

Reddington's cross-examination challenged Mack's background, his claim that Clancy resisted medication, and whether postpartum psychosis belongs in the DSM. Resnick faced his own cross, acknowledging Clancy never told providers about the impulse to harm her children. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors allege she planned the killings. The Commonwealth carries the burden of proving she was criminally responsible. Two more prosecution experts remain before closings.

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