![]() ![]() ![]() The police statement of probable cause for Clancy's arrest contains summaries of interviews with those close to the Clancy family. 24. Assistant Plymouth County District attorney Jennifer Sprague said Clancy had been functioning normally, and that she deliberately planned the murders. "On some level this case is going to - inferentially, sort of - put the whole mental health system, as it regards to this very serious, little known, little resourced condition and disease, on trial, so to speak," said attorney Brad Bailey, a former state and federal prosecutor who has also defended clients in cases involving the question of criminal responsibility.Ĭlancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argued that his client was suffering from postpartum depression and overmedicated, so she not criminally responsible for killing her children on Jan. Doctors said Clancy is paralyzed from the waist down.ĭuring the hearing, attorneys from both sides of the case made it clear that Clancy's treatment for postpartum depression will play a role at trial. She appeared remotely, laying in a hospital bed in Boston. Linsday Clancy and her husband expressed concerns about the medications that she was taking for postpartum depression - and whether she had become addicted - in the weeks before she killed her three children and jumped from a second-floor window, court documents show.Ĭlancy, 32, was arraigned on murder charges and other offenses at a Plymouth District Court on Tuesday. ![]() (David Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool) With District Court Judge John Canavan, top left, as the presiding judge the defendant participated remotely through videoconference. In this video screen image, Lindsay Clancy, with a surgical mask over her face in a hospital, appears during her arraignment on charges regarding her three children's deaths at Plymouth District Court. ![]()
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