Lindsay Clancy jury braces for closing arguments as judge tells court: ‘You’ve heard all


The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has finished hearing all the evidence from the prosecution and defense as they prepare to hear closing arguments.

The state rested it’s case on Wednesday after five grueling weeks, finishing with testimony from forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff. ‘You’ve heard all the evidence,’ judge William R Sullivan told the court. 

A total of 18 jurors, compromising of 12 women and six men, will hear closing arguments on Thursday morning before they are asked to decide Clancy’s fate.  

Clancy, 36, strangled her children Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, to death at her Duxbury, Massachusetts in January 2023. 

The former labor and delivery nurse is charged with first-degree murder, but defense lawyers call for the jury to consider involuntary manslaughter as well as second degree murder. 

Clancy has admitted to killing her children but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis, and is seeking to be committed to a state mental health facility rather than face a prison sentence.  

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Testimony concludes in Lindsay Clancy murder trial

After Dr Saathoff’s testimony concluded, the prosecution rested its case against Lindsay Clancy.

Judge William Sullivan then excused the jury for the day.

‘You have heard all the evidence,’ he told the jury, but advised them to keep an open mind.

Sullivan ordered a lunch break, and when the court returns, the lawyers will go over the charges against Clancy.

Lyndsay Clancy listens to the testimony of Dr. Gregory Saathoff during her murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass.  (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

On the latest episode of The Trial USA, crime correspondent Rachel Sharp takes listeners inside Plymouth Superior Court for day fifteen of the Lindsay Clancy trial, the second day of the defense’s case.

Rachel has been covering every single day of the trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, keeping our readers up to date with live reports and filing video roundups from the scene.

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Prosecution objects to involuntary manslaughter charge

Buckingham objected to involuntary manslaughter being introduced as possible lesser charges.

Buckingham argues over intoxication wording

Bow-wearing prosecutor Shanan Buckingham is asking the judge not to include instructions over involuntary intoxication.

She said there is no evidence to show that Clancy was intoxicated to a debilitating effect during the killings.

Buckingham said that the state does not object to the criminal responsibility explanation.

Charge hearing begins

Court has returned from the lunch recess.

The attorneys are now arguing over the instructions and which charges to give the jury when they begin deliberating.

Lindsay Clancy charges and sentencing explained

With the final witness now off the stand, the judge is holding a charging conference Wednesday to determine which lesser charges and legal instructions will be presented to the jury when deliberations begin.

The issue could prove pivotal for Clancy, whose defense argues that her mental state and the effects of medication used to treat her postpartum psychosis should give jurors a path to a lesser conviction.

Prosecutors, however, argue that she deliberately killed her children as part of a plan that involved sending her husband, Patrick Clancy, out on errands while she strangled the children in the basement before attempting to take her own life.

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Judge denies motion for not guilty finding

Before the lunch break, Reddington renewed his motion for a required finding of not guilty.

Judge William Sullivan denied the motion.

Judge William Sullivan tells the jury they will have the case to decide a verdict as soon as Thursday afternoon during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass. on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Clancy murder trial discusses suicide

Lindsay Clancy is accused of murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – in January 2023.

Although the 36-year-old does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

On the day of the killings, Clancy asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy.

The former nurse strangled the children with exercise bands, then used multiple methods to try to end her own life.

She was paralyzed after falling from the home’s second-story window and is being held at a state hospital.

If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org.

Lindsay Clancy’s life locked in psych ward

Behind the doors of the pre-Civil War psychiatric facility, the former nurse who once cared for her own patients has become the patient herself.

There, confined to a wheelchair, she receives round-the-clock care for her physical and mental health, following what her defense says was a severe episode of postpartum psychosis and depression.

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What sentence is Lindsay Clancy facing?

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at her home in Duxbury in January 2023.

She does not deny she killed them, but has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis after being prescribed a powerful cocktail of drugs to cope with depression.

The prosecution has argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole.

If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

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Talk about Patrick Clancy has exploded during Lindsay’s murder trial. Now those closest to them share the truth about the grieving dad

Friends and family are rallying to defend Patrick Clancy from vicious conspiracy theories as his ex-wife Lindsay stands trial for murdering their three young children.

The trial, unfolding in Plymouth Superior Court, has captivated the country and stirred an outpouring of public sympathy for Lindsay, a nurse who many now see less as a killer and more as a casualty of a catastrophic mental health collapse.

That sympathy has curdled into baseless suspicion by some aimed at her ex-husband, Patrick, 39, and his new wife, Dr Rachel Danis, 37, whom he married in April this year.

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Who is on the Lindsay Clancy jury?

After a week long jury selection in July, 12 women and six men were seated to decide the fate of Lindsay Clancy.

They will not know until the case is sent for deliberation who is an alternate.

The judge seated 18 jurors including six alternates – a higher-than-normal number due to the length of the trial, its high-profile nature and the likely grueling testimony.





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