“What I can’t fathom is the district attorney’s intent to put a circus in front of this jury that is calculated to just inflame the passions of the jury,” Reddington stated.
He stated he additionally supported a request by Clancy’s former husband, Patrick, to stop the general public launch of among the proof that will likely be offered to jurors, together with post-mortem images of his youngsters and a recording of a 911 name he made on the evening of the slayings in January 2023.
Patrick Clancy, 38, who is anticipated to be the primary witness referred to as to testify Monday, has remarried and is “trying to move on with his life,” Reddington stated. But, he’s being hounded by some tabloid media retailers, in response to Reddington, who accused prosecutors of eager to “put that guy on the stand and show little onesies” his youngsters have been sporting after they have been killed.
“I think it’s reprehensible the way the government is trying this case,” Reddington stated.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague, who alleges Lindsay Clancy premeditated the brutal murders, countered that the protection is attempting to “whitewash” the ugly info of the case.
Lindsay Clancy, 35, strangled all three of her youngsters with train bands in the basement of her Duxbury dwelling on Jan. 24, 2023, minimize her neck and wrists, and jumped out a second-story window in an unsuccessful try and kill herself.
The former labor and supply nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital admits she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. But she has pleaded not guilty to 3 first-degree murder costs, saying she was in the throes of extreme postpartum psychological sickness.
Sprague has accused Lindsay Clancy of intentionally sending her then-husband out to select up takeout at a restaurant that was far sufficient away to offer her time to kill their youngsters.
Prosecutors plan to play the recording of the 911 name by Patrick Clancy after he discovered his injured spouse outdoors the house, then his discovery of his youngsters’s lifeless our bodies in the basement.
During Thursday’s listening to, Sprague stated there was a large response by police, hearth and EMTs as they desperately tried to avoid wasting the youngsters, and have a tendency to Lindsay Clancy and her distraught husband who additionally went to the hospital. As a outcome, she stated, prosecutors should name many witnesses.
“The Commonwealth did not choose the number of victims, the defendant did,” Sprague stated.
She added that if Reddington needs the prosecution to scale back the variety of witnesses, it might require not speaking about one of many victims.
“So if he would like me to not talk about one of the children … tell me which one of these children don’t matter,” Sprague stated.
Judge William F. Sullivan denied the protection request to restrict the variety of prosecution witnesses, saying, “I’m not telling the Commonwealth how to try their case.”
He took underneath advisement the request by Patrick Clancy’s lawyer to impound the 911 recording, post-mortem images, and different displays that will likely be offered to jurors. He stated he expects to rule on that Friday.
Attorney David Meier, who represents Patrick Clancy, requested a sidebar, the place his movement was mentioned at size with the choose, prosecutors, and Reddington out of earshot of the general public and members of the media seated in the spectator part.
Afterward, in open court docket, Meier argued that the hurt to Patrick Clancy brought on by the general public launch of some displays outweighed the general public’s proper to entry them.
Meier is also urging the choose to bar the discharge of any images and movies proven to jurors of the Clancy youngsters after they have been alive, and images of the clothes they have been sporting after they have been slain.
Jury choice, which was held over 4 days, was accomplished Thursday, however not and not using a setback earlier in the day. Two jurors, a person and a lady, who had been seated earlier, returned to court docket saying they couldn’t serve.
The two have been questioned individually at sidebar by Sullivan, prosecutors, and Clancy’s lawyer.
Their causes for in search of elimination weren’t publicly disclosed, however it appeared the person was involved concerning the monetary pressure of lacking work for a prolonged trial.
He may very well be overheard saying, “50 bucks a day,“ which is the amount of compensation the state pays a juror beginning on the fourth day they serve on a jury. Employers are required to pay jurors their wage for the primary three days they serve, in response to the state’s web site.
Sullivan excused the 2 jurors. Earlier in the week, he excused one other juror who additionally returned to court docket a day after being chosen, in search of elimination from the panel.
Shelley Murphy will be reached at shelley.murphy@globe.com. Follow her @shelleymurph.
