Lindsay Clancy trial Day 19: Prosecution rebuttal continues as closing arguments near
Prosecution calls final rebuttal witnesses in Lindsay Clancy trial as closing arguments near
Follow live updates from Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial as prosecutors continue their rebuttal case, working to counter the defense’s postpartum psychosis argument. Closing arguments could come as soon as Monday or Tuesday.
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[–>Parts of Lindsay Clancy’s account indicate fabricated hallucinations, expert says
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Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun, a prosecution expert, testified Monday that parts of Lindsay Clancy’s account of hearing voices in her head indicated “exaggerated or fabricated hallucinations.”
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“There were about three points on which her account more closely resembled exaggerated or fabricated hallucinations, one where it looked more genuine and one that was kind of mixed,” he said.
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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney reacts to judge denying mistrial motion
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Kevin Reddington said he expected Judge William Sullivan to deny his mistrial motion after prosecutors again raised the Catholic faith and sin on Monday.
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“I have no doubt that the jury will … be able to overlook it,” he said, days before closings.
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Lindsay Clancy moves for a mistrial over religious ‘mortal sin’ question, judge denies it
The judge in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial denied a defense request for a mistrial Monday after her attorney argued prosecutors improperly raised the concept of mortal sin. Judge William Sullivan called the testimony “problematic” but told jurors to disregard it.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Prosecution expert says Lindsay Clancy had limited mental health history before 2022
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A prosecution expert testified Monday that Lindsay Clancy had “a fairly limited mental health history” before September 2022, months before she killed her three children.
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Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun said Clancy, a straight-A student and competitive cheerleader, felt some anxiety tied to school and to her three pregnancies, especially about being away from her kids. “She didn’t like to leave them,” he said. He testified the anxiety “did not interfere very much with her functioning” and that she had about six months of treatment during nursing school.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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‘Postpartum is not a disease’: Defense spars with prosecution expert in Clancy trial
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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney spent Monday morning pressing the prosecution’s psychiatric expert on how postpartum illness is defined, seeking to show jurors that the state’s expert relied on too rigid a framework.
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Dr. Avram Mack testified that the DSM, the diagnostic manual used by U.S. psychiatrists, defines the “postpartum onset” specifier as four weeks after birth. Under cross-examination, he acknowledged that the World Health Organization’s system uses a different window and that a proposed revision to the DSM uses six weeks. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington pushed further, arguing that postpartum depression and psychosis can develop up to a year or longer after a birth. “Postpartum is not a disease, doctor,” Reddington said.
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Mack held that making diagnoses in psychiatry requires an authority, and that in the United States clinicians use the DSM. He has testified that Clancy suffered from a major depressive episode rather than postpartum psychosis, and that she was criminally responsible for her actions.
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The exchange came as the prosecution’s rebuttal case continued. Closing arguments are expected as soon as this week.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney goes after prosecution psychiatrist’s qualifications
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Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney spent Monday morning attacking the credentials of the prosecution’s key psychiatric expert, pressing him on how rarely he has testified on the central question in the case.
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Kevin Reddington got Dr. Avram Mack to acknowledge this was only about the third time in his career he had testified in court on criminal responsibility. Reddington also confronted Mack with prior cases in which, he said, courts had questioned Mack’s qualifications, which Mack largely said he did not recall or disputed.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Lindsay Clancy’s three child victims forgotten amid crowds of support: mother of six
A mother of six says that Lindsay Clancy’s three young victims have been forgotten amid the crowds rallying behind the woman who killed them, and is now on trial for murder.
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Lindsay Clancy, 36, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all younger than 6 — who were discovered strangled at the family’s home in January 2023. The prosecution wrapped up its case Monday morning, after which her defense attorney began presenting arguments, contending that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time she killed her children.
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Bethany Mandel, a conservative columnist and mother of six, said in an interview with Fox News Digital that she believes the three children killed by Lindsay Clancy, Cora, Dawson and Callan, have been cast aside in conversations about the case.
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“We all know her name,” Mandel said, referring to Lindsay Clancy. “Very few people know the names of her children.”
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