Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Read the Jury a List That Went On and On and On

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:10)
I feel like I'm kind of in a jazz lounge these days. Kevin Reddington held up two photographs on August 27th and showed them to 12 jurors in the Plymouth Superior Court on closing arguments. We are about to go through the closing arguments of both sides. And really, as down the middle as we can of here's what happened. Okay. You want the full account is a concise piece. You've come to the right place. And I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube as we continue to follow this wherever it may lead. So let's go back to those two photos. Okay. Two photos showed them to 12 jurors in the Plymouth Superior Court. The first was a happy family, Lindsay, Patrick, Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The second was Lindsay Clancy at a hospital bed after her S attempt, partially paralyzed tubes running through her body. How does this turn into this? Reddington asked. Then ADA., Jennifer Sprague, told the same court room, or stood in the same court room, I should say, and gave him her answer. It was a choice, according to her. Sprague told the jury, a horrible choice. One we don't want to believe a mother could make because it doesn't make us feel safe in this world, but it's a choice she made. I read that far more compelling than anything she said in that court room. Honest to God, if you watch back, I'm curious to get your thoughts. Do you think she was in it to win it? Or do you think she's phoning this shit in?
Kind of feeling like it might be the latter. And look, I'm okay with that, but it's your job to be the prosecutor. But you know, sometimes, sometimes it just works out that way. Where either you get somebody who's just not that compelling of a prosecutor, or they have a case that was assigned to them and their job is to prosecute. But what do you do when you're supposed to prosecute a case you really truly fundamentally disagree with? Well, I'm not saying that's what's happening here. I don't know the answer to that question, but I'm, I don't know.
Might just be the B team, or the C team, or the D team that's running the play for the prosecution here. I don't know. Sometimes that's your simple answer. Sometimes you're just not that into it. Five weeks of testimony, more than 80 witnesses in the Lindsay Clancy case came down to two layers, or two lawyers rather, and really two layers, using the same facts to build opposite arguments about what they meant. Reddington went first, held up a list of Clancy's prescriptions and read them to the jury. Larazepam, Sertaline, Hydroxine, Larazepam, Iseporine, Larazepam, Buciferine, Trazodone, it goes on and on and on and on. And yeah, I know I'm probably butchered some of those words. She took them, and she was told to take them, he said. She was religious about following her treatment plan. His argument was structural. The system broke Lindsay Clancy.
And that's a true statement. The argument of she didn't take them. She didn't do the 30 different scripts, prescriptions in four months, 13 in like 30 days.
Up this dose, down that dose, do this one, add that one, up this, lower this, take that one back over here, and do this and that. Every time you fill a prescription bottle, you get your new script. And when you're moving from a dose to a next one, you discontinue use of the previous bottle, which then means you're going to likely have a semi-full bottle of pills, depending how long you were using that dosage level, before you moved over to the next. Somebody's like, see, she didn't take her medicine. Look at that. 30 different prescriptions in 30 days. Again, let's say you're taking one at five milligrams. This is just an example. Let's say you're taking one at five milligrams and you got 30 pills in there. You're supposed to take it for 30 days. You're eight days in. That's not working. Maybe they're gonna up it. They up it. Now you're at 10 milligrams. Okay. So you have a new pill bottle here. We're following along. You got the old five milligram one. You got the new 10 milligram one. You're now taking the tens. So if you had 30 pills over here and you took eight of them, you got what, 22 left or now it's, yeah, about 22 left. Doesn't mean you're not taking them. It means you're moving on to the next prescription that you were prescribed by the medical professionals. I know story problems.