Lindsay Clancy’s psychiatrist testified Monday that she by no means noticed indicators of psychosis throughout months of therapy, after protection attorneys spent hours difficult how the physician assessed and handled Clancy earlier than the deaths of her three kids.

Dwell updates from sister station WCVB:

Dr. Jennifer Tufts, who was first questioned by the prosecution on Friday, was cross-examined by the protection all through Monday morning. Protection legal professional Kevin Reddington pressed Tufts over months of telehealth therapy, treatment choices and responses to Clancy’s worsening psychological well being.

Tufts is among the defendants named in civil lawsuits filed in January by each Lindsay Clancy and her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy. These instances accuse Tufts, different suppliers and hospitals of failing to correctly diagnose and deal with her psychological sickness.

Reddington questioned Tufts’ expertise when she started treating Clancy, the unique use of telehealth, her reliance on Clancy for medical historical past and whether or not she ought to have sought data from different suppliers. Reddington additionally questioned Tufts concerning the treatment prescribed throughout Clancy’s therapy and the potential uncomfortable side effects.

Tufts defended a number of choices and rejected Reddington’s suggestion {that a} treatment change “pushed her over the sting.”

After the lunch break, Assistant District Legal professional Jennifer Sprague revisited Tufts’ coaching, telehealth practices and the selections that went into assessments and prescriptions throughout Clancy’s therapy.

Video under: Intense scrutiny over a single phrase in Tufts’ notes

Background of the Clancy case:

• Lindsay Clancy faces three homicide expenses within the 2023 deaths of her kids, 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 started on July 20. Though her authorized crew supplied to stipulate to the deaths of the youngsters, 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 might be an alternate.

This case includes problems with psychological well being. When you or somebody you realize 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.

Key moments from week 2

• Christopher Clancy, father of Patrick Clancy and grandfather of the youngsters, described the decision he acquired from his son after the youngsters had been killed. “It was horrible,” he stated.

• Clancy cried Thursday in the course of the testimony of Dr. Kimberley Springer, a medical expert, who described photographs from the post-mortem of Callan Clancy in January 2023.

• Former nanny Elaine Rossi, who cared for toddler Callan Clancy starting in September 2022, testified she communicated with Clancy every day via textual content messages and a pocket book containing detailed directions about Callan’s feeding, sleep schedule and every day routine. Rossi described Clancy as a “great mother” and testified she by no means believed the youngsters had been unsafe. She additionally stated Clancy spoke about scuffling with postpartum points, issue sleeping and seeing docs for therapy.
• Prosecutors learn entries from the notebooks describing Clancy feeling overwhelmed by her son Callan’s sleep schedule. On cross-examination, the protection highlighted different entries through which Clancy wrote about desirous to get nicely, mind fog, guilt, anxiousness and issues about returning to work.

• Clancy’s attorneys have requested a Plymouth Superior Court docket choose to permit three protection witnesses to testify after prosecutors objected to their inclusion, arguing the testimony is central to her protection. Her movement asks the courtroom to allow testimony from Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, Dr. Michael Vulfovich and Dr. Donald Condie.
• Physicians and nurses testified about Clancy’s accidents when she arrived on the ICU at Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital early within the morning on Jan. 25. One of many nurses described that Clancy, who was intubated, was in a position to make use of a whiteboard to speak her confusion and incapacity to really feel her legs.
• Choose William Sullivan paused earlier than Friday’s lunch break in the course of the emotional trial of Lindsay Clancy to admonish everybody within the courtroom to beware of creating inappropriate remarks.

• Jurors heard that Clancy voluntarily checked herself into McLean Hospital early on New 12 months’s Day with suicidal ideas, anxiousness, and an incapacity to sleep. Dr. Alia Goodheart stated she met with Clancy for an analysis a number of days later and assessed that Clancy had no plan for suicide. Goodheart stated Clancy expressed that her kids and her household had been causes she wouldn’t commit suicide.
• Jurors additionally heard the beginning of the testimony from Dr. Jennifer Tufts, one of many defendants named in civil lawsuits filed in January by each Lindsay Clancy and her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy. Tufts testified that her preliminary analysis was adjustment dysfunction with depressed temper and generalized anxiousness dysfunction. She stated that she advisable treatment to Clancy, however that Clancy was reluctant.

Extra key takeaways from the trial are right here.

Key moments from week 1

• The primary week of testimony within the Lindsay Clancy homicide trial ended after the choose, jury and attorneys visited places linked to the case, together with the Clancy household’s former residence in Duxbury. The jury additionally retraced the route prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy despatched her husband, Patrick Clancy, on the day of the killings, together with stops at a CVS and a restaurant in Plymouth.

• Jurors heard the gut-wrenching 911 name Patrick Clancy made after he discovered his younger sons and daughter with train bands round their necks. He testified about returning residence from a visit to select up dinner and drugs, discovering blood within the bed room and his spouse out within the yard. Whereas on the cellphone with a 911 operator, he requested her what occurred and went inside, the place he discovered the youngsters within the basement.

• Plymouth County Assistant District Legal professional Shanan Buckingham used her opening assertion to inform the jurors that the youngsters had been strangled “meticulously.” She warned the jurors they might hear graphic testimony as she urged the group to make use of their widespread sense and life experiences as they hearken to the case.

• Protection legal professional Kevin Reddington stated his shopper is aware of she killed her kids however questioned what was happening in Lindsay Clancy’s thoughts. He’s arguing that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated on the time of the alleged crimes.