Why Lindsay Clancy Sobbed When Her Nanny Took The Stand

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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Lindsay Clancy and her defense attorney, Kevin Rennington, sat at the defense table in Plymouth Superior Court, examining a children's book. It was marked as a courtroom exhibit. The title was Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts. Investigators found it in the kitchen cabinet in the Clancy home alongside discharge paperwork from a clean hospital, handwritten medication lists, a postpartum anxiety workbook with nothing filled in. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts introduced that book as evidence in the murder trial. The defense would tell you it proves she was trying to understand what was happening in her own mind. The prosecution will tell you it proves she knew exactly what she was experiencing and chose not to do enough about it.
Because that's of course what happens when you get self-help books. You already know all of the answers. You're just getting the book to confirm it, right? That's how that works, isn't it? It amazes me how disingenuous the prosecution of Lindsay Clancy is. We're just basic facts of how life works. Do not apply.
Do not apply. When you have a self-help book, it means you already know everything in it. See, jury? Don't ask questions. It's not about women's mental health. It's not about any of these things. Yeah, it's exactly about all of those things. Your DA was dumb enough to try and take this to trial. For what point? I don't know. And somebody wants to be elected again. And we're playing election, parcheesy mouse crap monopoly with other people's lives and other people's tragedies. How nice. How nice.
Excuse me while I have no sympathy when somebody gets hit by a bus.
The prosecution would tell you it proves she knew exactly what she was experiencing and chose not to do enough about it. Same book, same woman, two completely different versions of what happened inside Lindsay Clancy's head. And by the end of day seven, the jury had a human face to put on both of those versions. But before they got to that moment, they sat through a morning of forensic witnesses. And one of those witnesses, a toxologist, the prosecution called to prove Lindsay Clancy was lucid on January 24th or 23, said something under cross-examination, that the cross of the Commonwealth is going to have some trouble walking back.
They seem to keep doing this because they're trying to live in a narrative that doesn't exist and bringing people into it saying, play along, follow the rules. And when they actually express facts and reality, then don't go along with their convoluted version of it.
Ah, you're making the point for the wrong side. The biggest thing that happened on day seven happened the day before day seven started. Clancy's defense agreed to stipulations on chain of custody for the exercise bands, the DNA, the blood evidence. Ceddington told the court they hadn't been contesting the government's case in chief. That matters more than any single piece of testimony in the trial so far. The defense has never argued Lindsay Clancy didn't do it. They've never denied that she used exercise bands to end the lives of her three children. Five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan inside her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24th of 23 They're arguing she wasn't in her own mind when she did it. That she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, so severe that she couldn't be held criminally responsible. The state likes to pretend that that's not a real thing. And that's their argument. That just doesn't exist. It's not a real thing. People don't have that. It doesn't go on.
Oh, there's a whole medical community that recognizes this as a real thing. And there's real women who go through it and they suffer from it and they deal with it. And there's treatment sometimes and sometimes there's not. And sometimes it goes horribly wrong because it's hard to really identify because it happens to one in a thousand. There's all this information of this existing in the prosecution. In the state of Massachusetts, in the state of Massachusetts, it just doesn't exist. So, ladies, by the thinking of the state of Massachusetts, that's where you want to have a baby because in the state of Massachusetts, there is no such thing as postpartum psychosis or postpartum depression or really anything that goes along with it. You just have the baby and you're happy and wonderful and everything's great. You're barefoot and pregnant walking around the house. So all the men, you know, just use you basically.
That's the version of reality the state of Massachusetts likes to pretend somehow exists in this weird fucked up reality. They're trying to tell the jury of 18 people as they have to prove that the woman who was acting psychotic really wasn't psychotic.