This story was updated at 10:24 p.m.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children before attempting to take her own life, will continue to appear in court virtually rather than in-person, as attorneys and law enforcement officials remain at odds over how she should be transported when her murder trial begins later this year.
Clancy has been paralyzed from the chest down since jumping from a window of her Summer Street home in January 2023. She’s been committed to Tewksbury State Hospital since then.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued she requires a medical van transport from Tewksbury to Plymouth every day of her trial due to her severe medical condition. He told the court that the logistics surrounding her physical transport are extremely difficult.
“This case is going to be a logistical nightmare,” Reddington told Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan during a hearing on Wednesday. “We have a person who is paralyzed, will be paralyzed for the rest of her life, and has lost any sensation and any motor control whatsoever.”
The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office has argued that they can transport Clancy safely in a wheelchair‑accessible van.
Reddington provided the court with specific details on the struggles Clancy faces daily. Referencing a letter from Clancy’s physician assistant, he said, “She requires a two-person, female assist for these issues, necessitating transfers to flat surfaces or exam tables.”
Reddington then raised concerns over Clancy’s “significant suicidal ideation” that requires 24/7 supervision.
“She’s not a danger to others, but she’s surely a danger to herself,” Reddington told the court. “If this woman kills herself during this trial, which there is a very real probability that could happen, it’s on somebody, and it’s not on me.”
Regarding the issue of transporting Clancy to court each day, attorney Jessica Kenny, a lawyer for the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office, told the judge, “Yesterday we tried in case the court didn’t allow her to appear on Zoom today, we tried to see how we’d be able to maybe get an ambulance for today and we had struck out on all of the attempts we had made. So advanced planning is key if there’s going to be an ambulance involved.”
Judge Sullivan said he would like to have an agreement ironed out within the next couple of weeks.
“It’s on me, I understand that, for me to draft this order, circulate it between the parties, and then have one more meeting here,” Sullivan told the court.
Clancy’s case is scheduled to return to court later this month.
She is charged with three counts of murder and strangulation in the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter, Cora, her 3-year-old son, Dawson, and her 7-month-old baby, Callan. She has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Clancy used exercise bands to strangle her kids before jumping out of a second-floor window in a suicide attempt at her Summer Street home in Duxbury on the evening of Jan. 24, 2023.
When the case goes to trial, Clancy’s lawyers plan to argue that overmedication and post-partum mental illness were behind the murders.
Her trial is set to begin on July 20.
Correction: In a previous version of this story, we reported attorney Michael Kenny also represented Lindsay Clancy. That quote was issued by Jessica Kenny, who is an attorney representing the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office. Clancy is currently only represented by Kevin Reddington.
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