HUNDREDS of Lindsay Clancy supporters rally outside courthouse as she continues her defense in ‘America’s saddest murder trial’: Live updates

Hundreds of pink-clad Lindsay Clancy supporters gathered outside the courthouse Thursday morning to show their support for the former nurse.

As defense attorney Kevin Reddington drove by, the crowd cheered and clapped.

Asked by reporters for a message to the crowd, he said, ‘Thank you,’ and added that he would share their support with Clancy.

When Clancy’s transport van drove past, the crowd cheered.

Clancy is expected to continue her defense in the murder trial of her three children.

She has admitted to killing her children but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis, and is seeking to be committed to a state mental health facility rather than a prison sentence.

The Daily Mail has launched a new podcast taking you inside the courtroom for the murder trial of mother-of-three Lindsay Clancy.

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.

Rachel will now be joined by Trial USA host Kayla Brantley twice a week to record a special podcast miniseries.

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.

Lindsay Clancy entered the courtroom in a pink shirt, dressed like the hundreds of supporters who rallied outside.

Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law showed her a sign of support after delivering emotional testimony about her three slain grandchildren on Tuesday.

Patrick Clancy’s mother, Sue Clancy, faced intense questioning while testifying as a defense witness, including from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham who asked the grieving grandmother if she was aware that ‘murder is considered a mortal sin.’

Sue testified that Clancy loved all her children, and described her as a ‘nurturing’ and ‘wonderful mother.’

She also rejected the prosecution’s suggestion that Clancy disliked her middle son Dawson.

After tense cross-examination in which Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham questioned Dr Paul Zeizel about potential bias on Wednesday, she exchanged tense words with defense attorney Kevin Reddington.

‘Let’s talk about confirmation bias,’ Reddington said, springing to his feet as soon as the prosecutor said she had no other questions.

Buckingham quickly responded: ‘Can I sit down please.’

The public gallery laughed.

Judge William Sullivan ruled on Wednesday that Emily Thorndike cannot testify in the trial.

Thorndike was a social worker who previously worked at McLean psychiatric hospital – where Clancy admitted herself in December 2022.

She posted on TikTok about the hospital after Patrick Clancy’s testimony.

Thorndike told the judge she felt the prosecution’s characterization of the facility was ‘misleading.’

The judge said that he finds Thorndike credible. But he has to look at issues such as the element of surprise, bad faith, prejudice to other parties and the materiality of the testimony.

The first three issues he said do not apply here.

The fourth – materiality of the testimony – is at issue, he said, in that she didn’t work there for a year before Clancy was admitted to the hospital.

He also said that the McLean records show the staffing levels in holidays and not in holidays. He will allow those records to be admitted to show what was available to Clancy during her time there.

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’s final movements before the deaths of her three children were apparently captured by the devices inside her home.

On Monday, the 14th day of her trial, prosecutors revealed how data from Clancy’s Apple Watch and iPhone recorded her heart rate, phone activity and apparent movement around the house before the health and movement records stopped at 5.38pm.

The evidence was presented by Ian Whiffin, a digital-forensics expert with Cellebrite who analyzed a full extraction of data from Clancy’s iPhone 13 for the prosecution.

Graphic images of Lindsay Clancy’s injuries from the night she killed her children and then attempted suicide have debunked wild conspiracy theories pushed by internet sleuths.

Since the start of the trial last month, social media users have been peddling bizarre theories about the case.

Particularly cruel posts have suggested, without evidence, that Patrick Clancy was somehow involved in the murders and framed his ex-wife.

Inside the courtroom on Wednesday, jurors heard testimony from Lindsay Clancy’s psychologist that she was in the throes of psychosis when she killed the children.

Dr Paul Zeizel, a highly experienced, well-respected forensic psychologist who works with Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington, explained that someone in the grips of psychosis can continue with normal tasks.

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