Clancy Trial: Toxicologist Says Drug Levels Were Within Therapeutic Range

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, continued this week with a run of clinical, detail-heavy testimony. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is pursuing an insanity defense under attorney Kevin Reddington, who argues she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis compounded by psychiatric overmedication.

Physician Assistant Eitan Negri opened the day describing the treatment of Clancy's wrist injuries. From there, jurors moved into the science. Nicholas Roberts, formerly of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab's toxicology division, testified to the drug levels detected in Clancy's blood and urine. Then forensic toxicologist Dr. Justin Brower took the numbers further, telling the court that the levels he tested for were within therapeutic range — not elevated, not consistent with the kind of overmedication the defense has leaned on to explain her state of mind.

That's a problem for a defense strategy built partly on the idea that Clancy was chemically overwhelmed. Toxicology doesn't argue with a jury. It just sits there as a number, and today's number wasn't the one the defense probably wanted.

After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court and expected to run several weeks.

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