Lindsay Clancy Defense Calls ER Doctor After 70-Witness Prosecution Case Rests

3 articles · Updated · The Boston Globe · Aug 17

An emergency room doctor testified Monday as the defense opened its case after prosecutors rested in Lindsay Clancy’s trial over the deaths of her three children.
Judge William Sullivan denied a defense motion for a required finding of not guilty, allowing the case to proceed after four weeks of testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses.
Defense witnesses including Clancy’s mother and sister described a sharp mental decline, saying she felt medication was “destroying” her mind, showed paranoia and voiced thoughts of harming her children.
Prosecutors used texts and phone data to argue Clancy appeared improved and coherent in the days before the killings, supporting their claim she acted intentionally and was criminally responsible.
Clancy admits killing the children but argues postpartum psychosis distorted her sense of reality; if acquitted, she would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital rather than released.