Lindsay Clancy's Trial Outside Courtroom: Supporters Show Up in Pink with Infants
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Dressed in pink, and in some cases holding infants, supporters of Lindsay Clancy showed up outside the Massachusetts courtroom where she’s standing trial for strangling her three children to death.
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New York Post“Her mind was distorted like that.” Here’s the latest on Lindsay Clancy’s trial for allegedly murdering her three children:
PBS NewsHourPsychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible in killing of her 3 children The testimony of Paul Zeizel is the strongest evidence yet to support the defense contentions that Clancy should not be held legally responsible for murder because she has bipolar disorder and was in the grip of a rare mental illness.
USA TodayClancy's defense argues that she is not guilty because she lacks criminal responsibility, which is more commonly known as an insanity defense. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says Clancy she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis at the time of the killings.
The Guardian USHundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe”, “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay”, gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children.
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"Lindsay Clancy has bad days, and worse days," he said. Sheila Cavanaugh Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, testified that she visited Clancy more 200 times while she was being treated in multiple facilities after the killings.
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The Guardian USIn court, Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, testified that when she first visited Clancy, she was unconscious. By 31 January 2023, Clancy was conscious and no longer connected to a ventilator, Cavanaugh said, but “her emotional state was very neutral – a flat affect.”
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Their last visit was right before the trial started. She said Clancy “talks frequently about her children”. “She loves them deeply,” Cavanaugh said. “She carries immense grief.”
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USA TodayClancy talked about her children frequently over the course of their visits, Cavanaugh testified.
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She also said Clancy repeatedly mentioned that she heard a persistent male voice, which said she and her children would not be safe unless she followed his commands. Cavanaugh acknowledged under questioning by the prosecution that she did not mention the voice Clancy said she heard in any of the notes she took about their visits.
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The Guardian USCavanaugh told the court that Clancy “alluded to hearing a voice, and the voice, according to Lindsay, told her that if she did not follow the command, neither she nor her children would be safe”.
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01 New York Post Resnick testified that she had a distorted belief that if she killed herself, her children’s lives would be so awful without her that she should kill them too.
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02 USA Today Here's a recap of the defense's case. Defense rests case against Lindsay Clancy. What it argued
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03 The Guardian US The live-streamed trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts has sparked massive discussions online and has brought attention to postpartum psychosis. Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, says she suffered from this rare mental illness, which is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Reddington said she also has bipolar disorder and had repeatedly sought expert help. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.
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04 National Review No, All Women Do Not Identify with Lindsay Clancy The trial is Luigi Mangione madness all over again.
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05 The Daily Wire “We stand in silence, united hand in hand, wearing pink, to show Lindsay Clancy the peaceful support she deserved,” a website promoting the vigil says. Other flyers listed on the site promoted rallies in New York City, Phoenix, Fort Worth, and other cities around the country.
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