Lindsay Clancy's psychologist delivers considerable prevail to security in revelation approximately day she killed children: Exist modifications

Dr Zeizel explained that someone in the grips of psychosis can continue with normal tasks.

If someone is in a psychotic state they can continue to talk, look things up online and do everyday tasks that they can normally do, he testified.

‘People who are in that state can continue to do things they have done before,’ he said.

Doing new tasks – such as changing a tire if you have never done that before – can prove difficult.

‘They can do everyday tasks,’ he said of someone in a state of psychosis.

So Clancy could continue to do things like take Cora to the doctors and search things online that day even if she was in the grips of psychosis, he said.

‘My opinion is that she did have indeed a mental disease or defect, that’s a legal construct, not a DSM-5 one, but she had bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis,’ Dr Zeizel said.

‘In addition, she was unable to conform her behavior to the law, and she had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act.’

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The Crime Desk’s Rachel Sharp has been covering every single day of the trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, keeping our readers up to date with live reports and filing video roundups from the scene.

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Clancy’s records from Tewksbury Hospital om some of the children’s birthdays and the anniversary of the killings were read to the court.

On May 26, 2023 – Callan’s 1st birthday – Clancy was seen self-propelling her wheelchair along the corridor. She had lunch with her mother and they played games.

On Cora’s birthday on December 24, 2023, she accepted medication, meals and snacks and had her family visit.

On January 24, 2024 – the one-year anniversary of the killings – she was noted as being able to engage with staff and her peers.

Under cross-examination, prosecutor Shanan Buckingham pressed Dr Zeizel about Clancy’s claim that a man’s voice told her to kill herself and the children.

He said that Clancy also told a chaplain at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital after the killings about the voice, as well as her husband Patrick.

Dr Zeizel said that Clancy has not heard voices since the killings in 2023.

But she had heard voices before then, he testified.

The stunning moment came during day 12 of Lindsay Clancy’s trial when a police officer admitted the state’s apparent theory that a doctor had coached the mom-of-three to claim that she killed her children because she was hearing voices.

That doctor is Dr Paul Zeizel, a highly experienced, well-respected forensic psychologist who works with Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, who testified that he visited Clancy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital days after the killings.

She claims that she was in the throes of severe postpartum depression and psychosis and heard a voice commanding her to kill the children and herself, telling her it was her ‘last chance.’

Inside Plymouth County Superior Court on Wednesday morning, Massachusetts State Police Sgt Dan Lawlor was forced to admit that investigators discussed a ‘theory’ that a psychologist hired by the defense had planted the seed of that story in Clancy’s mind.

Lindsay Clancy is accused of murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – in January 2023.

Although the 36-year-old does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

On the day of the killings, Clancy asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy.

The former nurse strangled the children with exercise bands, then used multiple methods to try to end her own life.

She was paralyzed after falling from the home’s second-story window and is being held at a state hospital.

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Lindsay Clancy feared people could hear her thoughts

Dr Zeizel testified that in December 2022, Clancy feared that people could hear her thoughts and that her children would be removed from her care.

She also had intrusive thought about killing herself.

She called the suicide hotline on December 4, 2022. She was told she did not meet the standard of care because she did not have a plan.

The second time she called the hotline was around December 15, 2022. She again did not receive any help.

‘She was having paranoid symptoms of psychosis and she was getting more depressed. She was having paranoid thoughts about the police and DCF,’ Dr Zeizel said.

‘She was worried that her children would be removed from her and she would never see them again,’ he testified.

Lindsay Clancy’s psychologist, Dr Paul Zeizel, has returned to the stand to continue his testimony in her defense.

Haunting evidence gives clearest picture yet of Lindsay Clancy’s mental health.

Court kicked off on Wednesday with an immediate sidebar, then Judge William Sullivan ordered a recess.

‘At this point what we’re gonna do is we’re going to be in recess and we’ll come back as soon as we can in regards to this. We’ll resume the trial at that time,’ Sullivan said.

Court has resumed in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Inside the courtroom there are lots of new faces in the media as well as public gallery.

Clancy’s mom, sister, priest all here.

Clancy is dressed in a dark green blouse.

Judge has instantly called a sidebar to speak to the two sides.

The defense and prosecution came back from the sidebar and said we’re going into a recess.

Lindsay Clancy’s bow-wearing prosecutor is facing criticism for a brazen courtroom stunt and tense questioning of the slain children’s grieving grandparents.

Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham is one of the two prosecutors from the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office working to prove that Clancy intentionally murdered her three children.

Buckingham has raised eyebrows throughout the trial as she has worn a bow in her hair each day in an apparent tribute to Cora, then subjected the children’s grandparents to intense questioning.