The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three kids appeared in court docket for the primary time forward of her homicide trial.
Lindsay Clancy appeared solemn and unblinking as she was introduced right into a Plymouth District Court docket courtroom for a movement listening to on Friday in a wheelchair — which she is sure to after changing into paraplegic from chopping her neck and leaping out a window after slaying her kids, WCVB reported.
Clancy, who beforehand appeared by video from her hospital mattress for hearings, listened as Choose William F. Sullivan and legal professionals set her subsequent court docket date for March 2 for oral arguments on varied points — together with her bid for a cut up trial.
The previous nurse needs a trial first for a jury to find out if she is chargeable for fatally strangling her youngsters Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan with an train band at their Duxbury, Mass. dwelling in January 2023.
She has requested a second, separate trial, which might then permit jurors to determine if she was affected by a “psychological illness or defect” when she allegedly killed them, her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, wrote in a submitting forward of the listening to.
The courtroom heard discussions about her upcoming April 10 psychological analysis to be performed by an professional chosen by prosecutors.
Choose Sullivan stated he wished the examination to occur quickly, including that the check “goes ahead on that date it doesn’t matter what.”
Sullivan additionally requested Clancy and her lawyer whether or not they wished for Clancy to be introduced again to court docket for future in-person hearings.
Reddington leaned over and spoke with Clancy earlier than telling the decide, “I’d prefer to have her right here.”
“I’m very protecting of her, and I don’t need her to be careworn,” Reddington, who has alleged Clancy was affected by extreme postpartum psychological well being points throughout the time of the killings, later informed the outlet.
“It’s a really emotionally draining factor, and he or she’s nervous and scared, and I need her to regularly acclimate,” he stated.
The alleged killer mom claimed in a lawsuit that a number of docs mismanaged her remedy of bipolar dysfunction, loading her up with a myriad of medication from October to December of 2022, similar to Zoloft, trazodone, Prozac, Ambien, Remeron, Klonopin, Seroquel, Ativan, Valium, and Lamictal.
She was overtaken by a “power” and commenced listening to voices when she began taking Seroquel, the day she killed her youngsters, her go well with claimed.
Her husband, Patrick Clancy, filed a separate lawsuit in opposition to her docs, additionally claiming she was “overmedicated” to the purpose of listening to voices on the time of the killings.
She was recognized with bipolar dysfunction a yr after her arrest — a situation that antidepressants normally make worse, the go well with stated.
“She’s a loving mom, at all times has been,” Paula Musgrove, Clancy’s mom, informed the outlet after the listening to.
Clancy has been on suicide watch at Tewksbury State Hospital since her arrest. Her trial is ready for July 2026 in Plymouth Superior Court docket.
