The prosecution called forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun to prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. He told the jury she committed a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing the children out of love.Heilbrun said Clancy retained moral awareness of what she was doing. But his own Read more…
Lindsay Clancy was a nurse who delivered other people’s babies. She’d been inside a psychiatric facility less than three weeks before she killed her own three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. Both the prosecution and her defense at Plymouth Superior Court agree she was Read more…
The prosecution says Lindsay Clancy chose the basement three times. The defense says her doctors piled on medications until her brain broke. The jury has five options for each child — prison, hospital, or freedom are all on the table. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside Read more…
Judge Hippler scheduled Bryan Kohberger’s evidentiary hearing for June 17, 2027 after prosecutors asked for the post-conviction petition to be dismissed outright. The hearing is a procedural step — not a ruling, not a signal of merit — but the timeline it creates puts a new attorney ten months from Read more…
If the jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible, she does not go home. Massachusetts law allows the state to commit her to a psychiatric facility — six months initially, renewable every year, no maximum sentence. Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She is Read more…
A Miller hearing is the only thing standing between Timothy Hudson and a life sentence. The 2012 Supreme Court ruling says a judge must examine a juvenile defendant’s childhood — mental health, trauma, family environment, rehabilitation potential — before imposing life without parole. To build that examination, the defense needs Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney rattled off prescription after prescription for the jury. The defense argued her doctors kept piling on psychiatric medications without coordinating her care — and that the result was a woman whose brain broke before she ever walked into that basement. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Read more…
Patrick Clancy came home and found all three of his children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks. The prosecution says Lindsay put them there deliberately. The defense says her brain was in psychosis and she could not have stopped herself. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Read more…
Jared Bridegan’s killer is going to prison. His wife’s trial just got more complicated than anyone expected. Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation for shooting Bridegan in a Jacksonville Beach street in 2021, staged to look like a carjacking. Jurors took less than four hours. He’s facing life Read more…
There’s no version of this verdict where Lindsay Clancy walks out of a courtroom and goes home. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis lays out exactly what waits for her down each of the two paths this jury can choose. Path one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal Read more…