Lindsay Clancy trial Day 19 recap of mistrial motion today

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Testimony continued Monday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial as prosecutors call rebuttal witnesses, starting with Dr. Avram Mack and then forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington moved for a mistrial Monday afternoon following a comment about how he’d discussed with Clancy the notion that suicide is a mortal sin, but Judge William Sullivan denied it, while emphatically striking the comment from the record.
Prosecutors say Lindsay strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home after sending her then-husband Patrick out for some errands. She then jumped out of the home’s second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall. The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.
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Testimony was interrupted Monday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial by a motion for a mistrial over a new comment about mortal sin.

Two of the prosecution’s three rebuttal witnesses had been on the stand, where they discussed Clancy’s mental state during the killings: psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack and forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun. The jury was sent home early when the judge denied the mistrial motion.

Prosecutors say Lindsay strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home after sending her then-husband Patrick out for some errands. She then jumped out of the home’s second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall. The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.

Here’s what happened in court on Monday:

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