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Lindsay Clancy: Focus shifts to murder counts as trial nears 13%
By John R. Ellement2%
7/10/2026, 2:48:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and False Dilemma, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 31% saturation with 90 hits. Analysis detected 405 faulty-reasoning hits from 290 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.1% and a BS Rank of 13% (19,235 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.90% of the article peer group.
Attorney Kevin Reddington with his client Lindsay Clancy during a June hearing in Plymouth Superior Court.
Lindsay Clancy appears in Plymouth Superior Court for a pretrial conference before her July trial for
the murder of her three children in Duxbury 2023.
Thursday June 18, 2026
Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger
Prosecutors have dropped strangulation charges against Lindsay Clancy, a move to focus the jury’s attention on the three murder charges against her, court records show.
Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J.
Cruz’s office said the charges are duplicative since the basis of the murder charges is that Clancy killed her children by strangling them, court records said.
The strangulation charges will “be subsumed into the murder charges” and are “therefore redundant,” prosecutors wrote Wednesday.
The dropped charge comes as both prosecutors and Clancy’s defense prepare for the trial, slated to begin July 20.
Her lawyer, Kevin J.
Reddington, has indicated that he will pursue what’s commonly known as an insanity defense at trial.
He has asserted that Clancy was overmedicated at the time of the killings, on 13 different drugs as she contended with postpartum issues, a regimen that he said led to “homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation.”
Should jurors acquit Clancy under that scenario, she would not go free but would be sent to a state psychiatric hospital, where she’d come up for periodic reviews to determine whether she could live safely in the community.
A conviction for first-degree murder carries an automatic life without parole sentence.
Her trial will also be automatically reviewed by the Supreme Judicial Court.
Information from previous Globe reporting was used in this report.
John R.
Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com .
Follow him @JREbosglobe .
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