It’s Day 15 of the Lindsay Clancy trial, with the defense up for a full day after the prosecution rested. Follow along here with live updates from inside court…
12:22 p.m. Buckingham asked on recross, whether it would be important to be honest about symptoms.
“It should be but that’s not always what doctor’s find,” Condi said.
12:19 p.m. On redirect, Reddington asked whether there might be reasons why Clancy might not have talked about all her symptoms with providers.
Condi also said that Clancy worried about her kids getting taken away and he notes that being a nurse, she may have feared getting her license away.
“But that’s speculation,” Condi said.
12:18 p.m. Condi said that Clancy never told her providers that she heard a voice before Jan. 24.
12:12 p.m. Buckingham tried to ask Condi how Clancy could have upped her dose of Zoloft if there were only 7 pills taken from a Zoloft bottle.
But Condi said he didn’t review police information, including the bottles collected as evidence.
12:05 p.m. On cross examination, Buckingham asked about Condi’s affidavit, which cited a New Yorker article.
She asked if he got most of his information from that article, and he said no, he interviewed Patrick Clancy and reviewed medical records.
12:00 p.m. Clancy was prescribed Seroquel and complained that it made her feel sedated. She started to taper after a visit to McLean.
She still complained of symptoms.
“There were times she appeared to be a little less distress but the symptoms were never resolved,” Condi said.
11:56 a.m. Reddington asked him about the calls to the suicide hotlines, which were recommended to her by other providers.
“That’s not the advice I would give,” Condi said.
11:54 a.m. He said that the records on Clancy’s cleaning weren’t enough information to say it was a hypomanic episode. He said the fact that she ran the day Callan was born and ran a 5K shortly after his birth was “unusual.”
11:49 a.m. Condi is testifying to the different types of bipolar disorder.
“People spend more time being depressed than manic,” Condi said. The mania is “euphoric” and can come with psychotic tendencies.
11:38 a.m. Condi said that Clancy was experiencing postpartum symptoms, including dissociation.
Reddington asked if that was also a symptom of psychosis.
“It certainly can be. Dissociation can mean that people can feel like things around them are not real,” Condi said, saying that psychosis means. “A lack of understanding of what’s real as opposed to what is not.”
11:29 a.m. After bumping up her Zoloft dosages for 25 mg to 50 mg, “She had a rather rapid series of difficulties,” Condi said.
Clancy had insomnia for 48 hours. Condi referred to this as an “activation,” something “these medication can cause in some people who are more susceptible.”
11:26 a.m. Condi described Dr. Jennifer Tufts’ notes as “sparse” in Clancy’s medical record.
“Not a great deal of sentence of what was done during the sessions,” he said.
11:15 a.m. Condi said that he works as a forensic and clinical psychiatrist and is affiliated with Harvard University. He is board certified in child and adult psychiatry.
“I spent a great deal in the state system working with people with psychotic disorders,” Condi said.
11:12 a.m. The jury is back and Dr. Donald Condi is up.
11:10 a.m. Condi’s testimony was being allowed but can’t testify to standard of care.
11:09 a.m. Reddington said that he did not have accept the evidence of the Commonwealth’s doctors, and called Condi “a very qualified psychopharmacologist.”
11:05 a.m. We’re back in the courtroom. The Commonwealth objection to testimony from Dr. Condi because his affidavit was not specific enough.
10:54 a.m. Laposata’s testimony via Zoom has been delayed due to technical issues. Court is back in recess.
10:15 a.m. Reddington said he can pare down the packed of diagrams he wants to present to what is most pertinent to Dr. Laposata’s testimony on Clancy’s injuries.
10:10 a.m. The Commonwealth is objecting to a rendering of Lindsay Clancy’s fall from the window.
“The window well is in the wrong place and where they have her falling and landing is where the window well is actually placed,” Sprague said. “Putting aside the late disclosure… the main objection is that its inaccurate.”
Reddington said it was accurate.
“If there is an issue with the window well,” Reddington said. “They can raise the issue on cross.”
10:08 a.m. The jury is being excused from the courtroom.
10:06 a.m. On redirect, Reddington asked Susan if she was aware that Lindsay was turned away “not once but twice” by a suicide hotline.
Buckingham, on recross, said asked if Susan read the medical records or was aware recommendations were made based on Clancy’s statements about potential medication side effects.
10:01 a.m. Buckingham asked Susan if she is an active member of the Catholic and she says yes.
“Are you aware that murder is considered a mortal sin?” Buckingham asked.
There were audible gasps in the courtroom.
It’s not clear if Reddington objected, but the judge called them over to side bar anyway.
That question will be stricken, the judge said. “You are not to consider it for any reason.”
9:58 a.m. At Thanksgiving, Lindsay had lost weight and had a lower appetite. She reported to her mother-in-law that she was trying to feel better and feeling a little better, according to Susan’s grand jury testimony.
9:54 a.m. “I feel like no one is hearing that…” Lindsay texted Susan about a benzo dependence, “and we keep throwing different meds in the mix.”
Susan asked if maybe she should stop taking them and Lindsay said if she stopped, she wouldn’t be able sleep.
9:53 a.m. Buckingham asked Susan if she was aware that Lindsay told a therapist that she wasn’t close with her in-laws and didn’t allow them to watch the kids?
Susan said she wasn’t aware Lindsay said that and that she did watch the kids sometimes.
9:48 a.m. Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz just came into the courtroom and is sitting with the press.
9:46 a.m. “Did she tell you that she had consumed a weed gummy that day?” Shanan Buckingham asked Susan about Lindsay’s ER visit on November 16, 2022. Lindsay had said she had heart palpitations and was worried about sleeping.
9:45 a.m. In the middle of cross examination, the judge has called the attorneys to a side bar. Reddington just had a whispered conversation with one of the court officers. It’s not clear whether that has to do with the side bar.
9:43 a.m. Lindsay Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington moved to submit text messages between his client and her mother-in-law, but didn’t read them aloud.
9:41 a.m. Susan, a labor and delivery nurse, connected Lindsay with the providers at South Shore Health that her daughter in law say in December.
Susan described the defendant as suffering from insomnia, decreased appetite, and anxiety.
9:39 a.m. Susan described Lindsay as a mother:
“She was very nurturing… She loved her children, all of them, very very much,” Susan said.
Lindsay appeared to be crying a little bit.
9:34 a.m. “We had a very good relationship,” Susan said.
What was your relationship like with your grandkids?
“Beautiful,” she said.
9:33 a.m. Susan Clancy, Patrick Clancy’s mom and Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law is taking the stand.
9:31 a.m. The jury is back in the courtroom.
9:20 a.m. Everyone is back in the court this morning except the jury. Judge William Sullivan is calling the lawyers to side bar for scheduling.
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