🚨 CASE UPDATE: A REQUEST SUBMITTED TO THE JUDGE BY LINDSAY CLANCY’S DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS DRAWING ATTENTION… BUT WHAT LIES BEHIND IT IS WHAT’S TRULY CAUSING A STIR
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues a motion about expert witnesses before the start of jury selection in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Plymouth Superior Court on Monday. Clancy, 35, is charged with killing her three children in their Duxbury, Mass., home in 2023.Pool photo by Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney wants a judge to limit first responder testimony about what they saw inside her Duxbury home the night her three children were killed.
In a brief motion filed Tuesday, defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that repeated testimony from police, firefighters and EMTs about their observations would be “irreparably prejudicial.”
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On the night of Jan. 24, 2023, first responders found Clancy’s three young children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — unresponsive in the basement of the family home. Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that day; Callan died days later after being airlifted to a hospital.
Reddington lists 18 first responders who testified before the grand jury that indicted Clancy and argues calling just one would suffice.
Clancy, 35, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the strangulation deaths of her children. Prosecutors have accused Clancy of deliberately plotting the killings;Â her defense argues that she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis that left her unable to understand she was doing anything wrong.
The motion filed by Reddington is the latest attempt by the defense to try and limit the scope of the testimony at Clancy’s trial.
In March, Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to split the trial into two parts, with the first phase focusing on the facts of the children’s deaths, and the second focusing on mental health. When that request was denied, Reddington asked the judge to reconsider, saying Clancy would admit to the killings to limit the scope of the testimony to only her mental health. Sullivan declined to reconsider.
First responders would almost certainly deliver some of the most upsetting testimony of any witnesses at trial, offering first-hand accounts of discovering the children in the basement.
Reddington called the Clancy case the “most emotionally disturbing and challenging” he’s seen in his decades of trying cases.
“I think it’s going to have a significant impact on jurors. More so than usual,” he said last week.
The second day of jury selection for the trial is underway Tuesday. Twelve jurors had been seated as of Tuesday afternoon, according to WCVB. Sullivan intends to seat 18.
SOURCE: https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/07/lindsay-clancy-wants-fewer-first-responders-to-testify-about-night-of-childrens-killings.html
