Lindsay Clancy trial Day 16: Defense expected to rest as murder case nears closing arguments
Lindsay Clancy prosecutors come across as ‘tone deaf’ and ‘uncaring’ defense attorney say
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Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are coming across as “tone deaf” to how jurors likely feel about the case, a criminal defense attorney says.
Lindsay Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under the age of 6 — who were found strangled at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home in 2023. Prosecutors concluded their case Monday morning, and Clancy’s defense attorney has since begun presenting arguments, asserting that she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis when she killed her children.
Donna Rotunno, a criminal defense attorney, told Fox News Digital she feels that prosecutors are being “tone deaf” to the way jurors are feeling about the murder trial, citing specific examples.
One of the main examples Rotunno cited was a moment from Tuesday, when Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham asked Susan Clancy, Lindsay’s mother-in-law and a Catholic, if she knew murder was a “mortal sin.”