Kevin Reddington's Closing: The State's Experts Never Studied Postpartum Psychosis

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is live courtroom coverage of the trial of Lindsay Clancy from the Hidden Killers podcast in TrueCrimeToday. Now, back to the courtroom.

**Kevin Reddington** (0:16)
About five weeks ago, that we met like this, and I indicated to you that thank you for incredible service. That, all of us mean that sincerely. It took literally more than a month out of your lives. It sat here, tentatively incredible, through some of the toughest, most gut-wrenching things that any person can be subjected to. And I think, I indicated that, sadly, the jurors carried this prana with them for years.
And the service that you have performed, I have never seen before.
You have listened to evidence. You have been fair. You have been objective. You've listened to the judge's instructions. And you've carried them into your heart, consistent with your oath, which is a very, very solemn oath. Pass between Deborah and Lindsay, who has placed herself on her country, which country you are, as a jury of her peers.
When you consider what's at stake here in the sense of what we've been dealing with.
Cora, Dawson, Callan.
She knows was. Yes, and that's why we think Cora, Dawson, Callan.
For a minute.
They are the victims of this case. They are the victims of the horrible, horrific act that has been laid at your feet as jurors to decide whether or not Lindsay is guilty.
Beyond a reasonable doubt, as His Honor instructed you, and will instruct you, what that means, that standard of proof that we as citizens in this country are so blessed to have, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, before the government charges any citizen with a crime. I don't care how many cops you have in here, how many DAs are sitting here, how many people are sitting in the front row, and they're all going to sit there and be proud of this prosecution. I told you in the opening statement that this is a prosecution that has ripped the soul out of this girl.
This is what they had. This is their family.
This is what they had. How does this turn into this?
How? Because of the damn medicine and the lousy medical care that she got. You can troop as many paid experts as you want to come in here and tell a jury, oh, well, she didn't say that she heard voices inside her head. She said she heard voices from outside her head. She said she was making chicken McNuggets. There was a bowl on the sofa. She wasn't making chicken McNuggets. She said something, as I think and I muse, and I try real hard to tell you what my opinion is, that this woman was acting in her right mind when these children were killed.
So when you consider the evidence in this case, consider the person who is in front of you, who is the defendant, as the government refers to her, and as the Attorney-General will likely tell you, even though a person is a defendant, that system of justice, you don't have to defend against anything. The government has the burden of proof. When the DA decides to charge someone with a crime, he has the burden of proof. His assistants have the burden of proof. To prove, number one, that Lindsay is guilty of this offense beyond a reasonable doubt, and then prove, number two, that Lindsay, at the time, killed her children, was not suffering from a mental disease or defect that caused her to have a lack of substantial capacity to appreciate, to know, to realize that what was being done while she was in a psychosis. But we'll laugh about that. It's just another woman. I guess it's just going to make an excuse. She's depressed. GAD, general anxiety. Give her a couple of pills, she'll be all right. You know from looking at the objective evidence in this case, this young lady, believe me, I don't have many clients like that, this young lady did nothing wrong in her life. She was a nurse, a daughter, a wife, and a darn good mother.
You can see from the objective evidence, you can see and you'll have all the exhibits for you to look at, and you can see by looking at these photographs, which you will have in the jury room. You can see the Facebook postings. You can see what she indicates about, for example, I just randomly grabbed this one. A son, my prince, that they would have you think. She killed him first, cruelly because she didn't like him. That is repulsive.
So she is living girl life with Pat, her kids.
Having a great time that summer. Life is good. She had to go back to work. And in opening statement, I told you, I said, watch the evidence. Watch the manipulation. Because that's what this case was built upon originally, and how it developed as the case progressed until it's in front of you. And how does that happen? Well, in the very beginning, going all the way back to when the first 911 call that you had to suffer through was made. You could hear in the voice, Pat Clancy, the horror, what he had obviously experienced.