Psychiatric nurse testifies at Lindsay Clancy murder trial

Testimony continued Tuesday in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, with a second psychiatric nurse practitioner taking the stand. Rebecca Jollotta, who met with Clancy briefly in November 2022, testified as part of the prosecution's case.

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Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, in their home in Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023.

Clancy, 35, faces charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. The children were found dead in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. Prosecutors contend that Clancy meticulously planned the killings.

Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, has stated that his client admits to killing her children but argues she should not be held criminally responsible due to severe postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. The prosecution's previous witness, psychiatric nurse Julie Paul, testified that she prescribed psychiatric medications to Clancy and that Clancy never expressed suicidal thoughts or intentions to harm her children.

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Clancy admits killing her children, but she shouldn't be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.

Paul's cross-examination on Tuesday was brief, lasting only about a minute before she stepped down. If convicted of first-degree murder, Clancy faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Should the jury find her not criminally responsible, she would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts.

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she prescribed some psychiatric drugs to Clancy and that Clancy never mentioned having thoughts of killing herself or her children.