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Duxbury mother Lindsay Clancy asks for another delay in murder trial
Clancy is scheduled to stand trial in February for allegedly killing her three young children.
Scheduled to stand trial for murder in February, Lindsay Clancy — the Duxbury woman accused of killing her three young children — is seeking another delay.
With prosecutors’ agreement, defense attorney Kevin Reddington has asked that Clancy’s trial be pushed back from Feb. 9 until at least May 11.
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As justification, Reddington cited several unresolved pretrial matters, “including government evaluation by government physicians of the defendant, the defendant’s consultation with [a] toxicologist and psychopharmacologist, [and] preparation and filing of substantive motions.”
“Both trial counsel have had numerous matters before the courts of the Commonwealth for trial in the past six months and are docketed with cases up to and including the February date presently scheduled for trial,” he added.
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Clancy’s trial has been pushed back several times since Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan first set a Dec. 1, 2025, start date last year. He later pushed the trial back to January, then February 2026. Speaking in court last month, Reddington hinted that another delay might be needed as Sullivan expressed his reluctance to further postpone.
Clancy, 35, remains committed at the state-run Tewksbury Hospital nearly three years after she allegedly strangled her three children and severely injured herself in a suicide attempt on Jan. 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation in the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.
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Reddington has said Clancy plans to pursue an insanity defense, arguing she was heavily medicated and struggling with her mental health following the birth of her third child.
“She obviously had no reason to kill those three beautiful children,” Reddington argued during Clancy’s superior court arraignment. “You have to ask yourself why. Why? And when you ask yourself why, you consider all of these factors, it’s readily apparent … that this woman was a troubled soul.”
Prosecutors, meanwhile, have sought to portray Clancy as a cold and calculating killer who sent her husband out on errands to allow more time for the murders.
Sullivan has yet to rule on Reddington’s motion to delay the trial. Clancy’s next hearing is Nov. 18.
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