Psychiatrist Says Lindsay Clancy Showed No Psychosis Days After 3 Child Killings
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Updated · CNN · Aug 4
Psychiatrist Says Lindsay Clancy Showed No Psychosis Days After 3 Child Killings
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 4
Summary
Jan. 30, 2023 hospital evaluations found Lindsay Clancy calm, cooperative and organized, with no hallucinations, delusions, suicidal intent or homicidal intent, psychiatrist Sejal Shah testified at her murder trial.
Shah said Clancy could explain why she wanted to switch her health care proxy to her parents, while another psychiatrist, Jhilam Biswas, told jurors Clancy wrote she was “horrified” and asked for an attorney two days after the killings.
Cross-examination still yielded a key defense point: Shah agreed Clancy was an honest patient and that someone can communicate and make plans while remaining psychotic.
Jurors also heard diary entries such as “I want help. I want to be well,” and medical testimony describing strangulation injuries to Cora, Dawson and Callan, sharpening the clash between prosecutors’ intentional-killing theory and the defense’s postpartum-psychosis claim.