Clancy Trial: Prosecution's Own Psychiatrist Admits Key Claim Isn't in His Notes

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial resumed Friday with Dr. Avram Mack, a psychiatrist called by the prosecution, continuing his rebuttal testimony after the lunch break. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Mack testified that Clancy told him she heard a command voice tell her this was her "last chance" — that she had to kill her children before killing herself. He diagnosed her with major depressive disorder, which he agreed qualifies as a Mental Disease or Defect. His conclusion, though, was that she retained the capacity to know her actions were wrong, and therefore retained criminal responsibility.

Reddington used cross-examination to chip away at Mack's credibility. Mack confirmed he's being compensated by the district attorney's office, that Park Dietz & Associates brought him in, and that he'd met with Clancy alongside a second forensic psychiatrist from that same firm — declining, notably, to discuss "the contact" between the two of them. He also testified Clancy had a "lifelong history" of medication resistance, then acknowledged that claim isn't documented anywhere in his own notes. What he did document: she avoided medication specifically because she was breastfeeding.

The trial continues at Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.

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