A Plymouth decide has dominated that Lindsay Clancy’s homicide trial will happen within the county the place the Duxbury mom is alleged to have strangled her three younger youngsters, starting subsequent July, greater than three years after the ugly deaths.
Plymouth Superior Court docket Decide William Sullivan has denied a request from Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, for his consumer’s trial to be held at Suffolk Superior Court docket in Boston as an alternative of Plymouth Superior Court docket, the place he argued that pooling an neutral jury could be unlikely due to “exploitive prejudicial publicity” from the media.
However Sullivan did facet with the protection’s request that the trial be pushed again from its tentative beginning date of Feb. 9 to a brand new starting date of July 20. The decide urged warning a couple of June trial as a result of it may spill over into the summer season trip season.
“What I don’t want to do is have a date, and we get ready for trial, and then somebody says, ‘I’m going to Truro,’” Sullivan mentioned at a listening to on Tuesday, “or ‘I’m going to the Finger Lakes,’ or ‘I’m on vacation.’”
Clancy, 35, is charged with murdering her three youngsters: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. She has pleaded not responsible.
The kids have been killed, the prosecution has mentioned, by ligature strangulation, wherein Clancy would have needed to maintain the ligature, which police allege was an train band, in place for as much as 5 minutes per baby to trigger demise.
Authorities say that Clancy then tried suicide by reducing herself in the master suite after which leaping from the window, a fall that has paralyzed her and relegated her to a wheelchair.
Plymouth Second Assistant District Legal professional Jennifer Sprague has claimed Reddington’s arguments for shifting the trial to Boston fell brief, citing how the trial decide would make use of a “deliberate and thoughtful individual voir dire process to ensure only impartial jurors.”
Sprague has additionally argued that Reddington “courted the media at the inception of the case in an attempt to sway the public to his version of events.”
Reddington is pursuing an madness protection. He has maintained that Clancy was emotionally unstable the night of Jan. 24, 2023, when she allegedly strangled her three youngsters.
Clancy had, on the time, been affected by postpartum despair, Reddington has mentioned.
Reddington mentioned Tuesday that he plans to name a number of skilled witnesses who might want to consider Clancy and put together reviews of their findings.
