Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mom charged with strangling her three younger kids, desires her case heard outdoors of Plymouth County, however prosecutors say there isn’t a want for that.
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is asking for his shopper’s trial to be held at Suffolk Superior Court docket in Boston as an alternative of Plymouth Superior Court docket, the place he believes pooling an neutral jury is unlikely due to “exploitive prejudicial publicity” from the media.
Plymouth Second Assistant District Lawyer Jennifer Sprague has mentioned Reddington’s arguments for shifting the trial to Boston fall brief, citing how the trial choose will make use of a “deliberate and thoughtful individual voir dire process to ensure only impartial jurors.”
The trial is slated to start on Feb. 9 however Reddington has additionally requested that it’s pushed again to subsequent spring, on the earliest.
Clancy, 35, is charged with murdering her three kids: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. Clancy has pleaded not responsible.
The kids have been killed, the prosecution has mentioned, by ligature strangulation, during which 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 dying.
Authorities say that Clancy then tried suicide by chopping herself in the master suite after which leaping from the window, a fall that has paralyzed her and relegated her to a wheelchair.
“In light of the extensive media coverage in this case,” Reddington wrote in his movement for a venue change within the trial, and “the prejudicial information contained in the media coverage … the unavoidable conclusion is that Lindsay Clancy cannot be given a fair trial in Plymouth County.”
Sprague disagrees with that assertion. Not solely does she asset that media protection has “not been highly prejudicial to the defendant,” however that Reddington spurred a few of it by talking to reporters at Plymouth District Court docket with one in every of his specialists within the case, Dr. Paul Zeizel.
“The media coverage was extensive,” Sprague wrote, “and protection counsel pitched his model of the information and his opinion of his shopper’s psychological well being to most, if not all, of the native tv and print media.
“Defense counsel’s bid for a new venue because the public may have formed opinion based on media coverage seems disingenuous,” the prosecutor added, “after he himself 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 kids.
Clancy had, on the time, been affected by postpartum despair, Reddington has mentioned.
The following listening to within the case is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Plymouth Superior Court docket.
