This story discusses suicide.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Lindsay Clancy’s attorney sought to blunt prosecutors’ portrayal of the Massachusetts mother as organized and calculating, pressing a hospital psychiatrist to acknowledge that a person can communicate, make plans and carry them out while experiencing psychosis."People can communicate and plan and act on plans even if they’re in the middle of a psychosis, right?" defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Dr.
Sejal Shah Monday.HEATED LINDSAY CLANCY COURTROOM EXCHANGE OVER 911 CALL, CRIME SCENE PHOTOS SETS STAGE FOR MOM’S MURDER TRIAL"Yes," Shah replied.Defendant Lindsay Clancy on Monday, Aug.3, 2026, the fifth day of testimony at Plymouth Superior Court for her murder trial.
Clancy is charged with three counts of murder in connection with the death of her three young children in 2023 at their Duxbury home.Clancy says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible.
(Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)Reddington then asked whether someone must be "drooling and stumbling and unable to walk and talk" to be psychotic.Shah said no and agreed that a person in psychosis can still communicate with others.Clancy is charged in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, inside the family’s Duxbury home.
Her defense maintains she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.Prosecutors argue she acted deliberately and understood what she was doing.LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS ‘BIG SPIRAL’ AS EXPERT SAYS ONE PART ‘SCARED ME’ IN MOM’S MURDER TRIALDr.
Sejal Shah testified she examined Clancy multiple times at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in January and February 2023.(Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)Seth J.
Zuckerman, a celebrity criminal defense attorney, former New York City prosecutor and founder of Zuckerman Legal Group, said the case will ...