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Judge sends Lindsay Clancy trial jurors home after chaplain testimony
ABC7 Los Angeles • • nation
Key Points:
- Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial were sent home after just an hour of testimony on Thursday, with the judge warning them to prepare for a longer day on Friday.
- Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of her three young children in January 2023 and has pleaded not guilty.
- Chaplain Sheila Cavanaugh testified that her notes did not mention Clancy hearing voices, despite Clancy reportedly experiencing them; Cavanaugh emphasized her role was to bear witness to suffering, not evaluate the patient.
- Defense attorneys argue Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her children and thus should not be held criminally responsible, though they do not dispute her responsibility for their deaths.
- Cavanaugh has continued to visit Clancy approximately 200 times at Tewkesbury State Hospital since the incident.
