The jury is back after a long weekend for Day 14 of the Lindsay Clancy trial. Follow along here with live updates…
12:54 p.m. Clancy’s mom told her and Patrick in December that she had thoughts of harming the children.
Clancy is crying.
The judge has called a recess for lunch.
12:46 p.m. “Mom will you please come up and stay with me for a bit, I’m really sick. Something is wrong,” Musgrove read out a text from Oct. 20, 2022 from Clancy. Clancy also said she’d tried some medicine but thought it might be making her worse.
“It’s just really scary and I don’t want to be alone,” the text said.
12:43 p.m. “I love my grandchildren with all my heart,” Musgrove said. “It was the most beautiful thing.”
She described her daughter as a “loving mother… a fun mother.”
“I always thought it was the best thing that ever happened to her,” Musgrove told the jury. “She would do anything for her children.”
12:39 p.m. Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy’s mother is on the stand.
12:35 p.m. Ozga said that he sister was struggling and expressed to her that she’d had suicidal ideation for an entire month by the end of December.
On cross, Ozga said she was social worked and mandated reporter, and did not observe anything that would have caused to file a report about Clancy or the children’s safety.
12:27 p.m. Allison Ozga, Clancy’s sister, is on the stand.
12:25 p.m. Hamp also recalled a time when a suicidal pregnant woman came in and Clancy was a new nurse.
Hamp told her about the Andrea Yates case.
“She cried and said, ‘how could a mother hurt her children,’” Hamp said.
12:23 p.m. “You don’t know what was going on with her life,” after Callan was born and Clancy stopped working, ADA Shanan Buckingham asked.
The prosecutor also asked about dealing with patients with mental health issues and having to stay compliant with medicines.
12:22 p.m. Hamp recalled a time that Clancy was watching Cora’s baby monitor and saw her crying. After Patrick Clancy didn’t answer the phone, Clancy called in a wellness check and everything was fine.
12:20 p.m. “Lindsay loved being a nurse she was really good at being a nurse, she was kind, she was passionate,” Hamp said, describing Clancy as, “the kind of nurse you wanted to take care of you.”
Hamp also talked about how attentive Clancy was as a mother, always asking the other nurses for advice at work.
Clancy has taken her glasses off and is crying.
12:15 p.m. Margaret Hamp, a Labor and Delivery nurse at Mass General who worked with Lindsay Clancy, is the first witness for the defense.
12:14 p.m. The jury is back in and Reddington will start to present the defense’s case/
12:10 p.m. “There’s no evidence from the government that would rebut that there is a lack of criminal responsibility,” Reddington said while asking the judge to dismiss the case.
Reddington also mentioned that the charges should be lowered to second-degree murder, because of a lack of evidence for premeditation.
ADA Sprague said that case law shows precedent where criminal responsibility is at issue, cases can only be dismissed after all evidence being submitted, not after the Commonwealth rests.
Judge Sullivan denied the motion to dismiss.
11:21 a.m. Court is taking a recess.
11:18 a.m. The Commonwealth has rested.
11:13 a.m. Whiffin said that Clancy’s watch and phone picked up steps on Jan. 25. Reddington asked if he was aware that Clancy was in coma that morning after her suicide attempt.
On redirect, Sprague points out that those steps could have come from Clancy’s watch or phone, the ladder of which had been seized by police in the course of their investigation.
11:03 a.m. More searches about drugs side effects and suicidal ideation from January 2023 were read out from Whiffin’s report of the phone.
10:58 a.m. Whiffin testified to cell phone data in Karen Read’s retrial last year.
10:49 a.m. Reddington is cross examining the witness. He asked Whiffin about the accuracy of Apple Health data, and Whiffin said he has studied it before.
10:18 a.m. The Commonwealth is done questioning the witness and court is in a short recess.
10:15 a.m. According to Clancy’s phone data there were two calls during the period between her last flight climbs, an incoming call, missed from Patrick and a call back to him that lasts 14 seconds.
10:01 a.m. Whiffin also analyzed some web searches on Clancy’s phone, including a search on the morning of Jan. 19, 2023, five days before the children were killed, for “symptoms of postpartum psychosis.”
9:52 a.m. According to the phone data, Clancy climbed a flight of stairs at 5:03 p.m. that day, the climbed two flights of stairs within a five minutes period started at 5:33 p.m.
9:49 a.m. Clancy’s Apple Watch was last active at 5:23 p.m. Jan. 2024. Whiffin said it could have died, been taken off, or been shut off.
9:36 a.m. Whiffin analyzed Apple Health data from Clancy’s phone, a source that can show steps taken and flights of stairs climbed. The defendant’s Apple Watch synced to her phone.
9:30 a.m. Ian Whiffin, an employee at Cellebrite a digital intelligence company, is on the stand. Officers used Cellebrite to analyze Clancy’s phone.
9:29 a.m. Judge William Sullivan said that the Commonwealth rests to close today.
9:27 a.m. The jury has been brought in.
9:16 a.m. Attorneys for both sides are at side bar.
9:07 a.m. Everyone is back in the courtroom this morning for the start of week four of Clancy’s murder trial.
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