Lindsay Clancys lawyer insists killer moms defense wont inspire copycats amid eerily similar recent cases
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer insisted the psychiatric defense used at the killer mom’s triple murder trial won’t inspire copycats — as two eerily similar cases continue to catch the nation’s attention.Defense attorney Kevin Reddington batted down the idea that the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mom’s case would prompt others to fake psychiatric problems to get away with slaying their children.“How would they want to copycat or use it as an excuse, especially if there is a component of medical history?” Reddington said during an interview with Fox News.“I mean look at the history that Lindsay had in this case.
What are they going to go out and kill their children just because of Lindsay Clancy? No, not at all.”During jury deliberations, a Lindsay Clancy-obsessed Illinois woman Corie Walsh, was arrested after allegedly hanging her 2-year-old son before trying to take her own life on Sept.1.
And in April, Massachusetts mom Janette MacAusland, was arrested for allegedly strangling her two kids, ages 6 and 7, before her own suicide attempt.Reddington, 75, also rejected the notion that more criminal defense lawyers would use the insanity defense in murder cases, given his near win.“I think that most defense attorneys that try murder cases are more than capable of determining what their strategies will be.I don’t think they are going to take a page out of my book,” Reddington told the outlet.A judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the gripping murder case against Clancy where Reddington asked jurors to find his client — a former labor and delivery nurse — not guilty by reason of insanity based on the claim she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis and heard a voice forcing her to strangle her three kids.After the slayings, Clancy tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists and neck, downing prescription pills and throwing herself from her second-floor window.
She is now wheelchair bound after injuring her spine in the fall.Recent i...