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Lindsay Clancy, 35, is seeking a change of venue for her upcoming murder trial
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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington cites “prejudicial information contained in the media coverage” and “the community disapproval the coverage has evoked”
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Clancy has pleaded not guilty to the murders of ther three children
Lindsay Clancy is requesting a change of venue for her upcoming murder trial in a motion filed in court this week.
The Massachusetts mother is currently set to stand trial starting on Feb. 9 in Plymouth County after being indicted on three counts each of murder and strangulation for the deaths of her three children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.
A motion filed on Nov. 3 by defense attorney Kevin Reddington is now seeking a change of venue to Boston, arguing that Clancy cannot receive a fair trial in Plymouth County.
Reddington specifically cites the “extensive media coverage” and “prejudicial information contained in the media coverage,” plus the “community disapproval the coverage has evoked,” to support his motion, a copy of which was obtained by PEOPLE.
“The unavoidable conclusion is that Lindsay Clancy cannot be given a fair trial in Plymouth County,” Reddington argues.
Facebook Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy
The motion comes on the heels of another filed one week prior by Reddington, which seeks to push back the start date of the trial to May 11.
Clancy is accused of murdering her three children and then attempting to take her own life Jan. 24, 2023.
Prosecutors allege Clancy meticulously planned the crime based on Internet searches made in the preceding days and hours.
Clancy’s husband, Patrick, came home that evening to find his wife had jumped out the window, at which point he called 911, according to a search warrant obtained by PEOPLE. While on the phone with dispatchers, he allegedly discovered his children’s bodies.
Cora and Callan were found on the floor of the denm the warrant said, while Dawson had been left on the floor of Patrick’s home office.
Each child had an exercise band tied around their neck, which Patrick immediately removed as he tried to perform life-saving measures on his children, per the warrant.
When officials arrived on the scene, the warrant said that Patrick allegedly yelled from the basement: “She killed the kids.”
The two oldest children, 5-year-old Cora and 3-year-old Dawson, died later that night at a local hospital while the youngest child, 8-month-old Callan, died two days later.
Clancy survived the 20-foot fall from her bedroom window but broke several bones in her back and ribcage. She also suffered injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
David Ryan/The Boston Globe/AP Clancy appears in court from her hospital bed in 2023 after suicide attempt left her paralyzed
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Clancy, who has entered a not guilty plea to all charges, is arguing that she was not of sound mind due to postpartum depression and the large cocktail of drugs that had been prescribed to her by various doctors.
Patrick told officials that at one point prior to the deaths of their children, his wife was seeing two doctors and had prescriptions for Zoloft, Valium, Trazadone, Ativan, Klonopin, Prozac, and Seroquel, according to the warrant.
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