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PLYMOUTH, Mass. —

Lindsay Clancy’s homicide trial adjourned till subsequent week early Friday afternoon after a number of witnesses took the stand and the jury toured the Duxbury house the place the Massachusetts mom is accused of killing her three youngsters in 2023.

Lindsay Clancy trial Day 4: Key moments

• Jurors visited three key areas: the ThreeV restaurant, a CVS and the previous Clancy house in Duxbury. The choose informed them the view was meant to assist them perceive the format and areas concerned within the case.
• Lindsay Clancy didn’t attend the jury view.
• Again in court docket, Duxbury officers described Lindsay Clancy whereas she was within the hospital. Prosecutors and the protection confirmed the jury photographs of lacerations on her arms and neck as they testified.
• Docs who handled Dawson and Callan Clancy described in depth emergency measures to attempt to save the kids. Lindsay Clancy turned emotional throughout their testimony.
• Testimony resumes on Monday at 9 a.m. Extra key takeaways from the trial are right here.

Lindsay Clancy was indicted on three counts every of homicide within the 2023 deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 8-month-old son Callan. She pleaded not responsible to the fees.

She turned a paraplegic after harming herself within the fast aftermath of her youngsters’s deaths.

Testimony ended simply earlier than 1 p.m. on Friday and can resume Monday morning.

Docs element efforts to save lots of Clancy youngsters

Emergency physicians from Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital testified concerning the efforts to save lots of Lindsay Clancy’s youngsters after they arrived on the emergency division on Jan. 24, 2023.

Dr. Mark Tenerowicz testified that Dawson Clancy arrived after he had reportedly been strangled and was not respiratory. The medical staff carried out CPR for about 40 minutes, administered IV fluids and epinephrine, confirmed the respiratory tube was correctly positioned and used ultrasound to examine for cardiac exercise.

Regardless of these efforts, Dawson by no means regained a heartbeat and was pronounced useless at 7:28 p.m. Docs additionally famous older bruising on one in every of his legs and ruptured blood vessels on his face.

Dr. Benjamin Kaufman testified about treating 8-month-old Callan Clancy, who arrived in cardiac arrest and was not respiratory. Kaufman stated the medical staff inserted a respiratory tube, established IV entry and continued chest compressions. About 10 minutes after Callan arrived, docs detected a heartbeat and organized for him to be flown by helicopter to Boston Kids’s Hospital for specialised care.

Kaufman, who stated he’s not a neurologist, testified that in his care, Callan confirmed no obvious mind operate and gave the impression to be in a coma primarily based on the medical staff’s evaluation.

Earlier within the day, a number of Duxbury law enforcement officials testified about securing the crime scene and guarding Lindsay Clancy after she was transported to the hospital.

Jurors additionally heard testimony about proof collected throughout the investigation, together with clothes, a marriage band and pictures documenting Clancy’s accidents and the search of the house.

Jury excursions former Clancy household house

Friday’s jury view was supposed to present the 12 girls and 6 males on the panel a greater understanding of the format of the home, and the placement of the restaurant and CVS the place Lindsay Clancy despatched her then-husband, Patrick, on the evening of the tragedy.

“The view that you’ll take is a part of the case,” stated Plymouth Superior Court docket Decide William Sullivan. “The observations that you just make whereas on a view could also be utilized by you and thought of by you in your deliberations in reaching a verdict.”

The jurors left the courthouse to start the view at about 9:30 a.m. and returned simply earlier than 11 a.m.

Entry to the Duxbury house was restricted to prosecutors and protection attorneys, the choose, jurors and obligatory court docket employees. Lindsay Clancy selected to not be current, in line with her protection legal professional Kevin Reddington.

Jurors and different approved events had entry to the outside of the house, in addition to the basement and all rooms on the primary and second flooring.

Courtroom testimony resumed Friday after the tour.

First responders on the stand

First responders with the Duxbury police and hearth departments testified Thursday about what they noticed after they had been known as to the Clancy household house on the night of Jan. 24, 2023.

Duxbury law enforcement officials Brian Josephine and Stephen Corridor stated they discovered Patrick Clancy within the yard, standing over his then-wife.

Josephine stated he believed, on the time, that accidents to Lindsay Clancy’s wrists and neck didn’t look like life-threatening.

They stated Patrick Clancy left to go search for his youngsters. Josephine and Corridor then heard loud screams coming from inside the home. They discovered Patrick Clancy and 3-year-old Dawson Clancy within the basement of the house.

“I known as for paramedics to come back to the basement. I additionally known as for a supervisor, and officer Josephine picked up the kid and ran by the entrance door to the ambulance,” Corridor stated.

Josephine testified officers and first responders instantly started CPR and different emergency measures on the kids whereas extra ambulances had been known as to the scene.

“My first intuition was seize his head, and tilt it to the aspect, see if I may get a pulse. However, primarily based on my coaching and expertise from earlier incidents, I knew it wasn’t going to be good,” Josephine stated.

Josephine stated Patrick Clancy gave the impression to be in shock and an ambulance was known as for him.

Patrick Clancy finds slain household

Thursday’s testimony adopted an emotional day Wednesday as the gut-wrenching 911 name Patrick Clancy made after he discovered his younger sons and daughter with train bands round their necks was performed.

Patrick Clancy testified that he left Lindsay Clancy house with the kids to select up medicine and dinner, and when he returned, the house was quiet.

He stated he entered his bed room and “noticed blood in all places, and the window was open.” Patrick Clancy stated he went exterior and located Lindsay Clancy “face up” within the yard.

“She had deep cuts on her wrists. She had a purple line throughout her neck,” Patrick Clancy stated as he recalled discovering his spouse bloody on the bottom exterior their second-story window.

He requested her what occurred, and he or she stated, “I attempted to kill myself,” and informed him the kids had been within the basement. Patrick Clancy stated he was on the telephone with a 911 operator when he went to search for his youngsters.

“I noticed Cora. She had (an train) band round her neck. She was face down,” Patrick Clancy stated. “I instantly ran over and tried to take the band off.”

He stated he eliminated the band, after which noticed his son, Callan, who additionally had an train band round his neck. Patrick Clancy stated he then discovered Dawson Clancy on the opposite aspect of the basement with an train band round his neck.

“I knew that he was gone,” Patrick Clancy stated.

Jury hears 911 name

Patrick Clancy was excused from the courtroom earlier than the prosecution confirmed jurors the train bands that prosecutors stated had been discovered across the youngsters’s necks and the garments the kids had been sporting on the time.

The 911 name was performed within the courtroom for the jurors, however it won’t be launched to the general public. Lindsay Clancy buried her face in her fingers and was visibly sobbing as the decision was performed in court docket.

On the decision, Patrick Clancy is heard screaming, “She killed the youngsters.”

No less than one juror was in tears.

Earlier than he was excused from the stand, the prosecutor requested Patrick Clancy a few telephone name he had with Lindsay Clancy within the days after the murders.

“She did not discuss our youngsters. She talked about what she went by,” he stated. “She stated she heard a person’s voice telling her that if she did not do it now she would lose her probability, or one thing like that.”

In the course of the recess, EMTs responded to the courthouse, the place an officer stated somebody was experiencing an nervousness assault; nevertheless, all of the jurors returned when testimony resumed.

Hours main as much as the tragedy

Angela Krause, who works on the CVS Pharmacy in Kingston, testified that she had a “regular interplay” with Lindsay Clancy hours earlier than the kids’s deaths when she known as the shop inquiring a few laxative for kids.

Saria Shelgren was working as a hostess at ThreeV, the restaurant the place the Clancys ordered dinner on the night of the kids’s deaths. She testified {that a} girl known as within the order, which was picked up by Patrick Clancy. Shelgren stated she had no challenge understanding the lady and it was a traditional interplay.

Throughout cross-examination, protection legal professional Kevin Reddington targeted on Lindsay Clancy’s life as a mom and her therapy within the months earlier than the kids’s deaths. He confirmed household photographs, social media posts and handwritten notes, whereas Patrick Clancy testified that she beloved being a labor and supply nurse however struggled with nervousness, sleep deprivation and drugs modifications.

The protection additionally pointed to empty medicine bottles from the couple’s bed room that police didn’t seize, arguing the fuller tablet bottles beforehand proven to jurors had been for discontinued doses.

Opening statements delivered

The state laid out for the jury of 12 girls and 6 males the alleged occasions that led as much as the kids’s deaths on Jan. 24, 2023, and warned the jurors they’d hear graphic testimony as she urged the group to make use of their frequent sense and life experiences as they take heed to the case.

Video beneath: Prosecution’s opening assertion

Plymouth County Assistant District Legal professional Shanan Buckingham began by telling the jury the kids had been strangled “meticulously.”

“One after the other, she wrapped train bands round every one of many youngsters’ necks and pulled till their little our bodies had been limp and lifeless,” Buckingham stated.

The state argued Lindsay Clancy understood her actions and made a deliberate alternative.

“She heard a voice, a male voice, a voice that she had by no means heard earlier than, a voice that she had by no means heard once more. That voice informed her it was her final probability; she needed to kill her youngsters so she may kill herself. She instantly took motion when she heard the voice with no route or particulars from this so-called voice, and he or she killed the kids,” Buckingham stated.

Video beneath: Protection’s opening assertion

Lindsay Clancy’s protection staff plans to make use of the madness protection, arguing that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated on the time of the alleged crimes.

In his opening assertion, Reddington stated his consumer is aware of she killed her youngsters however questioned what was happening in Lindsay Clancy’s thoughts.

“After the second youngster she had postpartum. … You’ll hear proof that was one of many points that was vital as a result of it may result in (being) bipolar. One of many issues you do not do if somebody is bipolar, you do not put them on an antidepressant, on Zoloft. It messes together with your mind, and it was executed on this case,” Reddington stated.

Reddington confirmed the jury graphic photographs of Lindsay Clancy within the hospital after she jumped out of her bed room window in an effort to go off any transfer by the prosecution to make the tried suicide look like faux.

Background of the Clancy case:

• Lindsay Clancy faces three homicide costs within the 2023 deaths of her youngsters, Cora, Dawson and Callan.
• She additionally jumped from a second-floor window, leaving her partially paralyzed.
• In a civil case, Lindsay Clancy alleges a “catastrophic failure” of a number of medical suppliers in diagnosing and treating her psychiatric situation.
• Her trial is scheduled to start July 20. Though her authorized staff supplied to stipulate to the deaths of the kids, she has pleaded not responsible.
• She is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.
• The jury is made up of 12 girls and 6 males. They won’t know till the presentation of the case is concluded who will deliberate and who will likely be an alternate.

This case includes problems with psychological well being. For those who or somebody wants assist, you may speak with the Suicide & Disaster Lifeline by calling or sending a textual content message to 988, or you may chat on-line right here.