A brief hearing was held Friday in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother accused of killing her three children in 2023.
Lawyers on both sides in the case convened in Plymouth Superior Court for the short hearing, though Clancy didn't appear, in person or on video.
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Nothing was decided at Friday's hearing, but the judge set a new hearing date, March 21, for discussion of motions about medical records and prosecutors' request to obtain notes from a New Yorker article last year in which Clancy's husband, Patrick, detailed the symptoms his wife was experiencing that should have been red flags.
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"I wasn't married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick," he said in the interview, in which he also recalled his wife's mental health struggles.
The prosecutor in court said she'd sent notice to representatives of the magazine two weeks ago but hadn't heard back. She, Clancy's lawyer and the judge all agreed it was likely that The New Yorker would oppose the motion to obtain notes from the interview.
At Clancy's last hearing, she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination by experts chosen by the prosecution, given that her defense team has said they intend to pursue an insanity defense.
Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Friday his team was "in good shape" processing evidence, and noted, during a discussion about access to the woman's medical records, that she had waived medical privilege during grand jury interviews so her health care team could speak.
He also said he would likely have no objection sharing records that Clancy's doctors relied on.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges brought by the Norfolk District Attorney's Office over the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of their children, 5-year-old Cora Clancy, 3-year-old Dawson Clancy, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. After killing her children, authorities said Lindsay Clancy cut herself and jumped out of a window in an attempt to kill herself.
Reddington has said that he plans to assert her "lack of criminal responsibility" at trial due to her mental condition. He's said she's still in a wheelchair in connection with her fall out of the window.
In December, he filed a notice of lack of criminal responsibility, saying "statements of the defendant as to her mental condition will be relied upon by defendant's expert witnesses and the defendant does intend to present to the Court a defense of lack of criminal responsibility."
Clancy's trial was originally scheduled for Dec. 1, 2025, but was rescheduled to Jan. 5, 2026, at the request of both sides, so the case wouldn't have to be suspended during the holidays.
