Why Was Lindsay Clancy's Medication Increased The Day Before?

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**Tony Brueski** (0:16)
On July 20th, the morning jury selection began on the Lindsay Clancy trial. The prospective jurors had not yet entered the courtroom. The cameras were rolling, and before a single person was called from the pool, the prosecution was on its feet with a motion to exclude defense expert witnesses. The argument, according to Boston 25's reporting from inside the courtroom, these people aren't really experts. Kevin Reddington pushed back. He told Judge William Sullivan that one of the challenged witnesses is a doctor he consults with regularly. Sullivan allowed the motion but called it premature, saying it could be renewed at a later point. It's not a denial, that's a postponement. The motion sits open through the entire trial and the prosecution can raise it again at any moment, including the minute before the defense expert is scheduled to take the stand. Jury selection got underway later that morning but the motion was not the first time in the span of 11 days that the Commonwealth moved to limit. Who gets to speak for Lindsay Clancy's defense? Who gets to put perspective, educate jurors on mental health and postpartum psychosis? It seems that Massachusetts doesn't really want an informed jury, doesn't really want an informed public, they just want their narrative. The one where she's an evil, bad, horrible person who wanted to take her children off the planet and jump out a window and ruin everyone's life. Yeah, that seems to make sense. It has nothing to do with the 13 medications that she was ramped up on, taken off of, put back on, add that one, mix this one in a little bit, take that one with a granola bar, don't take that with orange juice, have a little water with this one. Here, let's take this one back, let's add a little bit more to this. Oh, that one's not working. Let's say, oh, this doctor prescribed you that. We're not going to talk to that doctor because we don't like to see what everyone's doing and have any sort of cohesive medical plan to help you through this postpartum psychosis, which we're misdiagnosing the whole time. And when shit goes horribly wrong and you end up doing what you're saying, you have a fear of doing and the medication's not working, we're going to blame you.
And those experts you want to bring in, those other women who've gone through this exact same horrible thing, yeah, here in Massachusetts, that's all. That's witchery. We don't want to have those witches come in and testify.
Kind of feels like it, doesn't it? It kind of feels like we might be back in witchcraft days. You know, the Salem Witch Trials, witchery, sorcery that you're bringing in, this stuff where you hear voices, that's of the devil. That's of... That ain't... No, we're just going to have these old white men tell you exactly how you feel and how this all works. And if you don't like it, well, welcome to Massachusetts, where justice doesn't really have a name because it doesn't necessarily exist in a lot of cases. We're, of course, talking about Duxbury, Massachusetts, where January 24th of 2023, Cora was five, Dawson was three, Callan was eight months old. Their mother killed them with exercise bands in the basement of the family home. And then she cut herself and jumped out a second story window, you know, like sane plotting people do. She survived, she's paralyzed now. She's been held without bail at Truexbury Hospital. Lindsay Clancy has never denied doing it. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, has conceded in an open court. She has pled not guilty to three counts of first degree murder and nobody in the courtroom is being asked to decide whether she did it.
If a jury convicts her, the sentence is mandatory.
Life in prison, no parole, no discretion for the judge. If a jury finds her not criminally responsible, she goes to a locked state psychiatric hospital and gets evaluated on a schedule. And she walks free only if authorities someday decide she's not a threat.
She's already said she wants to be locked away for the rest of her life. It's kind of an amazing feat. If you think about this story and you think about if you yourself were in it, if you had been in a psychotic state and did that to your children, I'm kind of amazed the woman's even still alive. Because I think I might have found a way or eight to take myself off this mortal coil at this point. Had I done that, it's probably only because of the situation that she's in and the care that she's under that that has not happened as of yet.