How Lindsay Clancys criminal case could help her leverage million-dollar settlement in lawsuit against docs
Lindsay Clancy could try to use the fact that jurors nearly found her not guilty of murder for strangling her kids to leverage a settlement — potentially millions of dollars — in her lawsuits against the doctors she claimed failed her, experts told The Post.The gripping triple murder case against the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mom ended with a deadlocked jury Friday but several jurors have since revealed that 11 out of the 12 panelists were prepared to find her not guilty by reason of insanity and didn’t buy the prosecutions’ case.Clancy could use to bolster negotiations in the civil case, legal observers say.“It’s like a leverage play when you’re negotiating or mediating,” said Seth Zuckerman, a New York lawyer who handles both criminal and civil cases.
“[It’s] a case to say, look jurors have already heard this evidence and thought that the hospital was wrong and misdiagnosed her.And 11 out of 12 were prepared to find her not guilty because of this defect, which means basically that they didn’t think that the medical providers did the right thing by her.”Another expert suggested the settlement could reach seven figures.At trial, Clancy’s criminal attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked jurors to find her not criminally responsible based on the claim she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis made worse by several psychiatric medications her doctors gave her.Clancy is suing hospitals, doctors and other providers who treated her in the four months before the murders when she mentally spiraled as she desperately battled insomnia, anxiety, depression and intrusive thoughts about suicide and harming her kids.
Her lawsuit claims her providers failed to properly diagnose her and put her on a revolving door of powerful medications, ultimately leading to her killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on Jan.24, 2023 before she tried to take her own life.
Clancy’s then-husband Patrick Clancy also has a lawsuit pending against h...