husband out of the house<\/a> by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.<\/p>\nZeizel, who said he spent more than 35 hours with Clancy over dozens of visits and reviewed her medical records, said she went to a perinatal clinic in December 2022 because she felt her \u201cbrain was damaged,\u201d \u201cshe should kill herself\u201d and that she \u201cis never going to get any better.\u201d She also showed signs of psychosis, was paranoid and feared that people could hear her thoughts and that she would lose her children.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was worried that her children would be removed from her and that she would never see them again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But just because she was in a psychotic state, Zeizel said, that didn’t mean she couldn’t do \u201ceveryday tasks of living\u201d like driving and searching the internet, a reference to the fact that the day of the killings she took her daughter to the doctor, played with the children in the snow and searched online for a pharmacy and a restaurant.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the fact she is not talking about the unicorns in the corner, she is not slurring her words and she is not unable to walk, to your opinion to a degree of medical certainty, does that mean she is not in a psychotic state?\u201d Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington asked.<\/p>\n
Zeizel responded: \u201cIt does not.\u201d <\/p>\n
On cross-examination, prosecutors pointed out mistakes Zeizel made in his report about Clancy and questioned whether he could be objective about her diagnosis when he was seeing her as a patient and working with the defense including appearing with Reddington at a news conference.<\/p>\n
Zeizel acknowledged that there was nothing in Clancy’s medical records in which she reports hearing voices telling her to kill herself, only that she told her caregivers that \u201cshe wanted to die.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have questioned the seriousness of Clancy\u2019s suicide attempt. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham also read from daily reports from Tewksbury Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital where Clancy stays, that included the anniversary of the killings and what would have been her children’s birthdays. Those reports mentioned her parents sometimes visiting or her talking with other patients. But they never mentioned anything she did to remember her children.<\/p>\n
Reddington asked Zeizel if he saw anything in the record from the hospital about her \u201claughing, and partying and having a good time\u201d while in the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cLindsay Clancy has bad days and worse days,\u201d Zeizel said.<\/p>\n
Zeizel also said Clancy often talks about her children, aiming to dispel prosecutors’ contention that she never mentions them. \u201cShe really loves them and misses them and thinks of them every single day, almost every moment of the day,\u201d Zeizel said.<\/p>\n
If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty because of a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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