How Many Pills Lindsay Clancy Actually Took

The Lindsay Clancy trial testimony started with a father describing his three children to a jury, and ended with a prosecutor reading him pharmacy counts off nine bottles. Patrick Clancy was the Commonwealth's very first witness in Plymouth Superior Court, and the afternoon did not go the way an opening witness usually goes. Prosecutors asked him to describe Cora, Dawson, and Callan. He needed a moment before he could. Then the questions turned to prescriptions, and the state entered a bag of pill bottles into the record. Seven gone from one. Six out of thirty from another. One bottle that had never been opened. The prosecutor asked him point blank whether he understood that a lot had been prescribed and very little had been taken. He agreed, and then said the context was important. Here is why that exchange is the whole trial in miniature. The state wants those counts to prove she cannot blame medication she was not swallowing. The defense wants those same counts to prove that prescriptions were flying out of multiple offices with nobody checking what was actually happening to the woman receiving them. Same exhibit, two completely different cases. This episode walks the counts, the September conversation about a prescription that turned out to have been filled a day earlier, the family videos the state used to argue she was fine, and the reason a jury may hear that footage differently than prosecutors intend. We also cover what Patrick Clancy said about telehealth appointments, what he never got told about his wife's hospital stay, and the number he gave investigators that sent him looking for a lawyer.

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