Massachusetts mom in Doxbury is charged with strangling her three children mercilessly and will be on trial. Lindsay Clancy killed her kids, and her lawyer informed her that a guilty verdict is avoidable if crucial evidence is focused on.
Massachusetts Mom To Avoid Guilty Verdict with Insanity Plea
Lindsay, 32, is charged with multiple murders using exercise bands to strangle children when her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out getting food, reported Meaww.
Duncan Levin, a defense attorney, gave input on how the case will be argued. Both the prosecution and defense counsel will look into the accused mind when a trial is scheduled.
Levin said the trial is not about whether she killed the kids. Instead, it will be what her mind was when she killed them. It should be proven that her mental states make her accountable for the murders.
Her husband came home to find his children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, seven months old, all fatally wounded on January 24. Rescuers went there immediately and found that she had attempted to kill herself in a suicide attempt. She is recovering, but the prosecutor is prepping a case in court.
Court To Examine the Accused State of Mind at the Time of Crime
The suspect is held on dual counts of first-degree murder, Strangling on three counts, with assaulting with a deadly weapon after the incident, but charged with murdering her infant but no charges about his death, citing Boston25.
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When she was in court a week ago, her defense pled no guilt based on mental health issues affecting her postnatal mindset. This did not deter DA from saying it was intentional, not forethought, which shows clarity when she committed the killings based on substantial evidence.
To prove that murder is premeditated depends on the proofs presented by the state. Attorneys of the prosecution should show that Clancy is indeed pretending to be insane at the time of the heinous crime. At the same time, the defense needs to show how the suspect's mind was clouded by psychosis.
It was alleged that on January 24, she took Cora to see a doctor. Prosecutors noted that everyone saw her acting normal. After coming home, she played with Cora and Dawson in the snow and made a snowman, and she even posted a photo of that too. Later, she called to order takeout and asked Patrick to get the food from there.
Levi explains that she did this to let him leave the house to give her time to do the crimes without interference. Before it happened, it should be noted that Clancy had normal conversations with everyone even before the murders.
He added the prosecutors could say she was very reasonable and had no problem communicating, as opposed to the defense claim, proving that she was crazy. She must proven that she was aware that her actions were wrong and illegal but did it nonetheless. Since they doubt the whole charade, she is under psychosis, and the prosecution will disprove all claims by her defense counsels.
Summing it up, the suspect was aware, and her action showed nothing was wrong, and committing the murders willfully and not being clouded by psychosis.
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