Lindsay Clancys Ex-Husband Testifies He Took Her to the ER Twice Before She Got Into McLean | Pt 6 [dWXFCmCQyEf]
He drove her to the emergency room and brought her home again. The second time, he was the one who said it was time for McLean. This is Day 1 of the Duxbury Mom trial, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Lindsay Clancy, in Plymouth County Superior Court, and it is the first testimony of the trial. Clancy is charged in the deaths of her three children: Cora, who had just turned five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months old. Her defense does not contest what happened in January 2023. It contests whether she was criminally responsible, and that one question is the whole trial. The Commonwealth's first witness is Patrick Clancy, the children's father and Lindsay's ex-husband. He is sworn by the clerk, spells his own name into the record, confirms the divorce, and then spends more than an hour on the years before. Three births. Two hard recoveries. And a pattern he describes the same way every time: she was all right on leave, and she struggled when it was time to go back. Then the fall of 2022 arrives and the questions change shape. Watch what the prosecutor starts doing once the medications come up, putting records in front of him and asking whether he was aware. He answers honestly, and the answer is usually no. That is the Commonwealth building its case through the man who lived in the house, and it cuts both ways at once. Kevin Reddington has not cross-examined him yet, and the same facts are about to be asked to mean the opposite. --- WATCH WITH JUSTICE 0:00:00 to 0:03:28 - Court returns from the morning recess and the judge asks the Commonwealth to call its first witness. Watch the father sworn by the clerk, spell his own name into the record, confirm the divorce, and then point her out across the courtroom. 0:03:29 to 0:16:14 - The years before. How they met, the marriage, the three births and the two difficult recoveries, and the babysitter the family called Miss Jen. Listen for the sentence he keeps returning to: the hard part was never the baby, it was the date she had to go back. 0:16:15 to 0:27:47 - Summer 2022, and he dates the change himself. Asked whether he saw signs of anxiety across those months he answers starting in September, yes, but in the previous months, not so much. Then the Commonwealth asks whether he ever saw anything that made him want to call a doctor. 0:27:48 to 0:36:04 - A conversation at a September wedding, where she tells him she is going to ask a doctor for something to help. He testifies he learned only later that she already had the prescription the day before. Watch how much of this he is getting secondhand. 0:36:05 to 0:46:46 - The Commonwealth switches to paper. A pharmacy printout he handed over himself, then nine bottles entered as one exhibit, then a run of questions about how much came out of each one. He asks whether the exhibit is comprehensive before he answers, and his answer is not the one the question was built for. 0:46:47 to 1:03:14 - The hardest stretch in the video. He describes the December decline, the day she tells him she is suicidal, and the night she tells him she is having intrusive thoughts about the children. Then listen to what he did about it, and to his own answer about whether he was afraid for them. 1:03:15 to 1:14:56 - Two trips to the same emergency department, sixteen days apart. The first ends with clinicians who cannot agree, one in favor of admission and two in favor of a day program. The second ends with a transfer at three in the morning. It closes on the insurance question and the shortest answer of the day. --- COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: Complete case overview: the charges, the timeline, the people at the center, the McHoul standard, and the legal analysis behind Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Lindsay Clancy. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: Full Trial Live Broadcasts: No Breaks Edition: Trial Analysis Podcast: Key Moments and Testimony: Subscribe for Daily Coverage: FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #DuxburyMomTrial #LindsayClancy