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Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Boston Globe
Lindsay Clancy trial set for February, more than three years after deaths of her three children in Duxbury home
Her lawyer, Kevin J. Reddington, has said she was overmedicated while suffering from mental illness and has indicated he will argue Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity in court. Advertisement Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz's office maintains she was in her right mind and is demanding that New Yorker magazine hand over confidential materials they say will help prove it. The magazine published a lengthy story, written by Eren Orbey, based on interviews with Patrick Clancy, Lindsay's husband and the father of the three children, Patrick Clancy's parents, and Patrick Clancy moved to Manhattan after the death of his children and was quoted in the New Yorker as saying that 'I wasn't married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick.' Prosecutors cited his account of his conversation with Lindsay after he discovered their children in the basement to justify their requests for internal New Yorker information, such as Orbey's notes of conversations, including off-the-record information, with Patrick Clancy and others quoted in the story, along with voice mails, text messages, and emails between the author and the subjects of the story. Advertisement Prosecutors cited as an example that 'the article quotes Patrick as saying: 'I think one of the first things I asked was, 'Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out? ... She said, 'No, it just was, like, a snap of the fingers.'' On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan took the request under advisement after a hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, records show. The renewed effort asks for the same data using a new legal strategy. The New Yorker previously opposed the request by Cruz's office. The magazine was represented by Jonathan Albano, a First Amendment lawyer based in Boston who also represents the Boston Globe. The magazine argued the request intrudes 'on the constitutionally protected work of journalists.' 'The premise of the Commonwealth's motion is that the journalistic materials at issue potentially might contain information helpful to the prosecution. Much more than that is required,' the magazine said. Advertisement John R. Ellement can be reached at
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Lindsay Clancy trial set for 2026 as prosecutors seek husband's statements to New Yorker
Prosecutors in the case against Lindsay Clancy, a 34-year-old Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children in January 2023, seek to obtain notes and recordings from an interview her husband gave to The New Yorker magazine. During a Wednesday hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, prosecutors asked the judge to order the publication to hand over the information. Clancy, who is paralyzed from the waist down, was indicted two years ago on three counts of murder and strangulation in the deaths of her three children: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 7-month-old Callan. She is being held for court-ordered treatment at Tewksbury Hospital. Her case has renewed attention surrounding perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, also known as PMADs. One of the disorders, postpartum psychosis — which Clancy's defense attorney has referenced in court — is rare and affects one or two in a thousand women. Read more: It's been 2 years since Lindsay Clancy's children were killed: What we know Clancy appeared for a motion hearing via Zoom during which prosecutors and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, laid the groundwork for her upcoming trial in 2026. Patrick Clancy has since moved to Manhattan after his wife's indictment, and told The New Yorker that he hoped to root out 'lies and misinformation' surrounding her case. 'I wasn't married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick,' Patrick Clancy said in an article published in October 2024. In a GoFundMe started by Patrick Clancy only days after the children died, he wrote, 'The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring … All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.' In the days after the killings, Clancy's attorney said at her arraignment that she suffered from severe mental illness at the time, dealt with complications from overmedication and grappled with postpartum depression — and potentially postpartum psychosis. On Wednesday, prosecutors said they're looking for 'the entirety of the statements and the context of those statements' made by Patrick Clancy to the New Yorker reporter to better understand Lindsay Clancy's mental state leading up to and immediately after the children's deaths. An attorney for the New Yorker was not present in the courtroom Wednesday, but prosecutors noted an email that indicated the media company was 'not taking a position' on the filed motion. Read more: Prosecutors to file motion to access Lindsay Clancy's medical records 'Most significantly, the defendant's husband does report statements that the defendant made about the actual crime itself,' Prosecutor Julianne Campbell said. Additionally, there are statements attributed to Lindsay Clancy referenced in the article that 'she made to others in her life ... both before and after the events' she is charged in connection with, prosecutors said. Because Clancy is pursuing what's known as the insanity defense — therefore making her state of mind 'squarely at issue,' prosecutors said — and she has not made any statements to law enforcement, the records are crucial to prosecutors for their understanding of her mental health. Reddington did not object to the prosecution's motion for discovery. 'The way I analyze it is that this reporter or author, Lindsay never participated with him. We made no statements, we had nothing to do with this report and ultimate article whatsoever,' Reddington said. Reddington said he will 'embrace and adopt and welcome' the statements Clancy's husband, friends and co-workers made that she was 'a wonderful person, an incredible mother, a lovely human being,' and would 'welcome access to those statements as well.' Judge William F. Sullivan allowed the prosecution to seek the records through an interstate process, with a possible 90-day timeline. A final pretrial conference is scheduled for Jan. 25, 2026. Clancy's case is expected to go to trial on Feb. 9, 2026. At Clancy's initial arraignment in 2023, prosecutors described how she is accused of strangling her children with exercise bands before jumping out of the house's second-story window in an attempted suicide. She had been found at the scene in January 2023 with 'superficial' cuts to her wrist and neck, but the wounds weren't bleeding by the time her husband had found her. Reddington previously described Clancy as a 'marvelous' mother and said that he walked through the house where there were artworks and photographs in every room that showed Clancy and her husband's devotion to their children. 'She's a woman who was obviously struggling from postpartum depression,' Reddington said. 'This woman was a troubled soul.' Clancy was on several medications, which she tracked carefully in notebooks and cellphone notes, and Reddington said she was having problems with the medications. Her husband told doctors she was 'acting like a zombie' in the weeks leading up to their children's deaths, according to Reddington. Prosecutors to file motion to access Lindsay Clancy's medical records It's been 2 years since Lindsay Clancy's children were killed: What we know Lindsay Clancy ordered to undergo psychiatric exam before murder trial Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Yahoo
Karen Read murder trial: Second trial not the end of Read's legal troubles
Karen Read's second murder trial is now underway. But this trial is not it for Read's legal troubles. Read, 45, is accused of killing her boyfriend, Braintree native and Boston police officer John O'Keefe outside a Canton home in January 2022. Read's first trial in O'Keefe's death ended in a mistrial in July. O'Keefe's family in August filed a civil lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court against Read and two bars in Canton that she and O'Keefe visited before his death. John O'Keefe's brother, Paul O'Keefe, and his estate filed a civil lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court in August against John O'Keefe's girlfriend, Karen Read, and Canton bars C.F. McCarthy's and the Waterfall. The suit is seeking at least $50,000 in damages including "reasonably expected society, companionship, comfort, guidance, counsel, net income, services, assistance, protection, care, and advice to next of kin." The lawsuit states Read's conduct was "extreme and outrageous, beyond the bounds of decency and was utterly intolerable" and that she "outrageously created a false narrative." Read's counsel filed motioned to stay the civil case until the criminal case is resolved, arguing that parallel civil and criminal proceedings could undermine Read's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Judge William White Jr. in November ordered the halt of Read's scheduled deposition in the civil case and any other discovery directly related to her. Other discovery proceedings were allowed to continue without pause, according to the ruling. Read was charged with second-degree murder after O'Keefe's body was found in the driveway outside the Canton home of a fellow Boston police officer Jan. 29, 2022, during a snowstorm. Prosecutors say Read was drunk and angry when she purposely hit him after a night of drinking at C.F. McCarthy's and the Waterfall. But defense attorneys for Read say she was framed for O'Keefe's death. Read is also charged with manslaughter while driving drunk and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: What is the status of Karen Read's civil case? O'Keefe family sues
Boston Globe
19-03-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
New Yorker magazine contesting judge's order to turn over recordings of interviews with Lindsay Clancy's husband
The reporter, Eren Orbey, also interviewed the parents of both Clancys as well as experts on the issue of filicide, including one who is working for Clancy's defense. One person is identified only as a pastor, but most of the others are quoted by name. In February, Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan issued a subpoena for reporting materials related to the article at the request of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz's office. Advertisement Sullivan approved the subpoena without indicating whether he would review the material before providing it to prosecutors. In court documents, prosecutors said they needed access to the handwritten notes, emails, audio recordings, and voice messages between Orbey and people he interviewed for the story, including the person identified as the pastor. Prosecutors said the published article was crafted to generate sympathy for Lindsay Clancy and that journalists are legally required to comply with such court orders. The profile 'in both title and substance — is intended to portray the defendant in a sympathetic light and support her defense of a lack of criminal responsibility,' prosecutors said. The New Yorker, through First Amendment attorney Jonathan Albano, urged Sullivan to reconsider his order. (Albano also represents the Boston Globe). 'The New Yorker's sympathies are not on trial here,' he wrote. 'In fact, even a cursory reading of the piece shows The New Yorker's reporting is complex and nuanced, and is hardly 'in support' of the defense,' Albano wrote. Advertisement More significantly, 'the notion that the government could seek presumptively privileged, unpublished information from any news outlet that expresses sympathy for a criminal defendant is chilling and directly contrary to the First Amendment,' he added. Under both the US Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the request by prosecutors is legally invalid and Sullivan should quash the subpoena, he wrote. Albano filed the magazine's response to the subpoena last week. No hearing is currently scheduled on the issue, according to court records. John R. Ellement can be reached at
