It’s day 10 of the Lindsay Clancy trial, with a full two weeks already presented to the jurors. Following here, including updates from the court…
10:16 a.m. “We can’t have both of you talking at the same time,” Judge Sullivan said. He asked Tufts to only answer the question and for Reddington to wait for her completed answers before asking new questions.
10:11 a.m. The doctor said that she didn’t warn Clancy about the black box warning on the Prozac because she felt that the patient was older than the suicidal ideation warning pertained to.
10:07 a.m. Tufts said that she wasn’t concerned about Clancy’s drinking when Reddington asks if she was aware that his client had stopped drinking.
10:04 a.m. “This is a little chart that shows the prescription that Lindsay was on,” Reddington said, bring out out an enlarge photo of the table. “You are the yellow.”
9:56 a.m. “I listened to her, I listened to her concerns, and provided support,” Tufts said. “I tried to provide her with hope that eventually things would improve.”
Tufts said that the appointments she had with Clancy were about 25 to 30 minutes, focused on medicine, but with some therapy. Reddington pointed out that the records said the appointments were 17 minutes. But Tufts said the 17 minutes was just the therapy component.
9:52 a.m. “She was a little bit worse,” Tufts said, at different appointments, and the doctor had to check off that Clancy was “deteriorating,” but that wasn’t the word she would have chosen herself.
9:50 a.m. Reddington asks whether Edinburgh test, which screens for postpartum depression, was administered to Clancy, and Tufts said no. Instead, Clancy got a general depression screening.
9:45 a.m. Tufts said that she had never seen Clancy in person until she testified on Friday.
9:36 a.m. “You are a defendant in a very large lawsuit, are you not?” Reddington asks, referred to the suits Clancy and her ex-husband have filed again her.
He asks whether she is aware that the outcome of the criminal trial would impact the outcome of the civil suits, and she said she wasn’t sure.
“You understand if you advertise as an expert in postpartum,” with just one month in practice, out of residency, Reddington asks, “Would you consider that to be negligent?”
“I do not believe I have been negligent,” Tufts said.
9:32 a.m. Reddington asks if she remembers that her website bio says that she specialized in postpartum depression.
9:27 a.m. Tufts said that she saw about 50 women postpartum before she started working at an outpatient practice in August of 2022. She started seeing Clancy about a month later.
9:22 a.m. Reddington is asking about how Tufts residency was potentially limited by the fact that much of it occurred during the pandemic.
“Did you touch people, shake their hand, give them a hug?” he asked.
“Sometimes,” she said.
9:19 a.m. Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist that treated Clancy before the killings, is back on the stand to be cross examined.
9:17 a.m. Judge William Sullivan has brought down an order this morning on three expert witnesses Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington wants to take the stand. Sullivan will allow two doctors to speak on Clancy’s injuries and a third will undergo voir dire to determine if they can testify.
9:16 a.m. Jurors are back in the courtroom to start the third week of Clancy’s Trial.
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