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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer officially filed a Hail Mary bid Thursday asking a judge to find his killer client not guilty by reason of insanity – despite her high-profile case ending with a hung jury.
Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington argued in new court papers that prosecutors at her widely watched five-week trial failed to prove that the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother knew what she was doing was wrong and could follow the law when she strangled her three kids on Jan. 24, 2023.
“No rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when the Commonwealth’s own proof established that she did,” Reddington, 75, wrote in the papers.
The veteran defense attorney says he plans to argue his motion further at Clancy’s next hearing on Sept. 29 when a new trial date could be set for her.
Reddington asked the jury to find Clancy – a former labor and delivery nurse – not criminally responsible, claiming she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice forcing her to kill Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, before she attempted suicide.
However, prosecutors alleged she was lucid enough to carefully plan and execute the horrific crimes.
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