Dr Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist who testified in the Andrea Yates case, is expected to be a key defense witness in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial.
Trial Developments in Duxbury Murder Case
Clancy, 36, is currently on trial for the first-degree murder of her three children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan—who died in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Defense attorney Reddington is arguing that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible due to alleged overmedication and her struggle with postpartum psychosis.
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan indicated that closing arguments in the trial are expected to occur on Monday or Tuesday, depending on the duration of testimony from the final four witnesses.
His testimony in the Andrea Yates case
On June 20, 2001, police found Andrea Yates outside her Clear Lake, Texas, home. Yates had filled the bathtub and drowned her sons Luke, 2, Paul, 3, John, 5, and her 6-month-old daughter Mary. Her eldest son, Noah, 7, saw his sister in the tub and tried to run, but Yates caught him and drowned him too. She placed the bodies of her four youngest children on her bed, covered them with a sheet and repeatedly called 911. Dr Resnick was a key defense witness in Andrea Yates’ 2001 trial.
She told officers she had drowned her five children. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is nearing the end of his case in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity after killing her five children in Texas, as per CNN .
He said he plans to call Dr Phillip Resnick as his final witness via Zoom on Friday, as per CBS .
