{"id":24316,"date":"2026-08-20T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24316"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:24:32","slug":"lindsay-clancy-trial-day-16-defense-expected-to-rest-as-murder-case-nears-closing-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24316","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy trial Day 16: Defense expected to rest as murder case nears closing arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu Aug 20 2026 08:46:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">8 mins ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--[-->Lindsay Clancy prosecutors come across as &#8216;tone deaf&#8217; and &#8216;uncaring&#8217; defense attorney say<!--]--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are coming across as &#8220;tone deaf&#8221; to how jurors likely feel about the case, a criminal defense attorney says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Lindsay Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children \u2014 Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under the age of 6 \u2014 who were found strangled at the family&#8217;s Duxbury, Massachusetts home in 2023. Prosecutors concluded their case Monday morning, and Clancy&#8217;s defense attorney has since begun presenting arguments, asserting that she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis when she killed her children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Donna Rotunno, a criminal defense attorney, told Fox News Digital she feels that prosecutors are being &#8220;tone deaf&#8221; to the way jurors are feeling about the murder trial, citing specific examples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>One of the main examples Rotunno cited was a moment from Tuesday, when Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham asked Susan Clancy, Lindsay&#8217;s mother-in-law and a Catholic, if she knew murder was a &#8220;mortal sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 mins ago Lindsay Clancy prosecutors come across as &#8216;tone deaf&#8217; and &#8216;uncaring&#8217; defense attorney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}