Testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is set to resume Thursday in Plymouth Superior Court, but the source does not give an exact start time for what time does the Lindsay Clancy trial start today. The proceedings follow a day of graphic medical-examiner testimony that left Clancy sobbing in the courtroom.
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On Wednesday, medical examiners described the fatal injuries Clancy inflicted on her three young children in January 2023. Dr. Barbara Olson’s testimony about neck trauma to Clancy’s 5-year-old daughter grew so hard to hear over Clancy’s cries that the judge paused the trial and jurors were escorted from the courtroom.
Clancy’s legal team comforted her while the courtroom was cleared. She remains paralyzed from the waist down after cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window in a failed attempt to end her life, and she continues to receive treatment at Tewksbury State Hospital.
Lindsay Clancy murder trial
Clancy has admitted to killing her three young children at the family’s Duxbury home, but prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible. Her defense says postpartum psychosis affected her sense of reality, putting the jury in the position of weighing intent against mental state.
If jurors acquit her in Plymouth Superior Court, she would be sent to a state psychiatric hospital rather than released. That leaves Thursday’s testimony as the next step in a case that is moving through an insanity defense and still turning on what jurors make of her mental condition and the injuries described in court.
