Kevin Reddington's Closing: The State's Experts Never Studied Postpartum Psychosis

An hour is a long time to spend telling a jury they've been played, but that's what Kevin Reddington did in closing arguments for Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. His pitch to jurors: the prosecution manufactured a heartless, controlling caricature of a woman who was, according to the defense, drowning in psychosis.

Reddington took particular aim at how prosecutors framed Clancy's suicide attempt. She allegedly jumped from a second-story window after the killings and is now paralyzed from the waist down — and Reddington argued the state tried to cast even that as manipulation rather than the desperate act it appears to be. That's a hard sell in front of twelve people who've heard the medical details.

Then came the expert witnesses, and Reddington didn't hold back. He claimed the state's own experts brought credentials from entirely different worlds — one with a background hunting terrorists, another focused on juvenile offenders, a third who allegedly conflated schizophrenia with psychosis. None of that, he argued, adds up to real expertise on postpartum mental illness. His closing message was simple: reasonable doubt doesn't require jurors to know what happened inside Clancy's mind that day. It just requires the state to have failed to rule out psychosis, and he says they did.

Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. The case is in Plymouth Superior Court, and the jury's next move decides everything.

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