Lindsay Clancy Closing Arguments: Reddington Says Prosecutors Faked the Villain

Aug 27, 03:06 PM
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Kevin Reddington spent an hour on his feet trying to undo weeks of testimony, and he didn't do it quietly. In his closing argument in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy — the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan, with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023 — Reddington told jurors the prosecution built a version of his client that doesn't exist: cold, controlling, calculating, a woman who supposedly hated the kids she's accused of killing.

He didn't stop there. Reddington argued prosecutors even tried to wave off Clancy's own suicide attempt — she allegedly jumped from a second-story window afterward and is now paralyzed from the waist down — as somehow not real, not serious. That's a bold argument to make about someone who broke her spine trying to die.

The core of his closing came down to burden of proof. Reddington told the jury the state never showed, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Clancy wasn't in the grip of psychosis when her children died. And he went after the state's own experts by name of function, not credentials — claiming one built a career chasing terrorists, another specialized in juvenile offenders, and a third allegedly mixed up schizophrenia with psychosis. If true, that's not a small gap in expertise.

Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, resting her defense on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. The case is being heard in Plymouth Superior Court, where jurors now carry the weight of deciding whether a mother accused of the unthinkable understood what she was doing — or understood nothing at all.

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