Who is Kevin Reddington? What we know about Lindsay Clancys hotshot lawyer

He’s been hurling sharp blows in the courtroom for decades.Accused-killer-mom Lindsay Clancy’s hotshot lawyer Kevin Reddington has spent 50 years litigating high-profile cases — arguing in many that his clients’ alleged crimes were the extreme result of mental illness.Reddington, 75, has spent months in the spotlight while fighting for Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of fatally strangled her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

While prosecutors argued that the former labor and delivery nurse carefully planned the killings, including sending her then-husband to pick up medication at CVS and take-out from a local restaurant so she could commit the heinous crimes, Reddington countered that Clancy was in the throes of postpartum psychosis, worsened by myriad prescription medications.Reddington also claimed she heard a man’s voice instructing Clancy to kill the children and herself.

It’s the latest headline-making case that the criminal defense attorney has taken on.In 1989, Reddington defended Therese Rogers, who was accused of killing her boyfriend, Walter E.Quinn Jr., by stabbing his eyes out while he slept in their Bridgewater home.He argued that she and her daughter had been abused by Quinn for years and that Rogers was suffering from delusions and PTSD from battered woman syndrome.

It was one of the first cases to successfully use this defense, and Rogers was acquitted.It was during Rogers’ trial that Reddington built his reputation for dramatic courtroom displays.In a jaw-dropping demonstration, he abruptly flung ultra-sharp martial art stars across the room to prove to the jury how dangerous the weapons were, according to The Enterprise.Reddington helped Boston Red Sox first baseman Maurice “Mo” Vaughn walk away scot-free from a DUI in 1998.

Vaughn was busted on the charges after allegedly crashing into a broken down car while driving home from Foxy Lady Strip Club ...