Prosecutor’s Closing in Lindsay Clancy Trial Calls the Killings Rational, Not Psychotic
The state closed its case against Lindsay Clancy this week, and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague didn’t waste time on subtlety. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She’s pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington has spent the trial arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis, compounded by psychiatric overmedication.
Sprague’s closing went straight at that argument’s foundation. She reminded jurors that Clancy had 18 weeks of maternity leave, support from family on both sides, and access to mental health treatment most people never get close to. Yes, she was depressed — Sprague conceded that much. But she argued the providers treating Clancy weren’t negligent; they worked with what they were told, and Clancy never told a single one of them she was having thoughts of hurting her children. Why not? Fear the state would take her kids away. Sprague turned that fear into her strongest weapon, calling it evidence of a woman who understood exactly how wrong her thoughts were. She also took aim at the overmedication theory directly, noting Clancy was on only two medications at the time and that no doctor ever flagged signs of psychosis. Her closing line to the jury: this wasn’t psychosis, it was premeditation — Clancy killed her children first, then tried to kill herself.
Clancy allegedly attempted suicide afterward by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. Deliberations are expected soon in Plymouth Superior Court.
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