Clancy's Lawyer Reddington Called Prosecutors WHAT?!

A Plymouth County jury is deciding whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children, and the case hinges on two competing timelines that both last less than twenty minutes. Prosecutors say Clancy sent her husband Patrick out for Thai food, then used that window to take Cora, Dawson, and Callan to the basement and kill them one at a time with exercise bands. ADA Jennifer Sprague told the jury that afterward, Clancy missed a phone call, called the person back, held a normal conversation, and hung up — behavior, prosecutors argue, a woman controlled entirely by a hallucination shouldn't be capable of. The defense says the hallucination had already finished by then. Clancy described a male voice, never heard before or since, that arrived on the afternoon of January 24, 2023, and told her this was her last chance to kill her children and herself. It lasted roughly eighteen minutes and stopped the instant the children were dead. Defense psychiatrists Paul Zeizel and Phillip Resnick both diagnosed postpartum psychosis and testified Clancy had no understanding that what she was doing was wrong. Resnick evaluated Andrea Yates under nearly identical circumstances years earlier. The prosecution's forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff disagreed sharply, telling jurors a command hallucination vanishing the second its command is carried out doesn't match how psychosis actually behaves. Defense attorney Reddington's closing shifted the blame toward thirteen psychiatric medications and providers who never coordinated Clancy's care. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta covered the trial from inside the courtroom. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has spent her career reading exactly this kind of behavioral evidence. Tony Brueski gets both of their takes as the jury weighs a case where the experts, and the hosts, don't see it the same way.

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