The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential

How do experts determine whether someone is or isn't criminally responsible for their actions? In this "The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential" extended interview, Dr. Stephanie Hansen, a forensic psychologist and expert on conducting those evaluations, including at Tewksbury Hospital, shares her experience, her thoughts on the relationship between analyst and subject, how psychosis and postpartum psychosis affect people and more.  

 

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After calling 10 witnesses in five days, the Duxbury mother's defense rested Friday, and prosecutors called their first rebuttal witness. Friday's experts testified to the issue at the heart of the trial: was Clancy experiencing psychosis when she killed her kids? Plus, as closing arguments approach, we look at what the jury will need to weigh at the end of a weekslong trial, and a juror in the Karen Read trial shares her insight on deliberating in a complex, high-profile case.  

 

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In this Commonwealth Confidential extended interview, Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, a psychiatrist and the founder of a firm that helps people taper off of psychiatric drugs, shared his thoughts on the evidence shared about Lindsay Clancy's psychiatric medications, his suspicion that she had "an adverse drug reaction" as well as the benefits that the drugs have for many people.  

 

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Jurors heard from Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women's Hospital who recalled the Duxbury mother saying she had heard a voice telling her to kill her children and herself. Our legal analysts discuss how the witness' account, and cross-examination from prosecutors, might impact the case as testimony nears its end. They also talk about the rally held outside court Thursday in support of Clancy, which prompted the judge to poll the jury one by one.  

 

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Jurors heard from a forensic pathologist who shed light on what he says was in the Duxbury mother's mind on the night she killed her three children, and what her life's been like in the hospital. The judge also ruled that her team could not call as a witness a TikTok influencer who used to work at another hospital where Clancy was admitted. Here's have full analysis of the day in court.  

 

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