Watch Live: Lindsay Clancy trial resumes with testimony from second psychiatric nurse practitioner

Testimony at the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts resumed Tuesday with testimony from Rebecca Jollotta, a second psychiatric nurse practitioner who treated Clancy starting in November 2022.

You can watch the trial live on CBS News Boston in the embedded video or on YouTube when court is in session.

Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, in their home in Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023.

Prosecutors, led by assistant district attorney Jennifer Sprague, say she planned the murders. Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington says she admits killing her children, but she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.

Defense wants to call TikTok user

Before testimony began for the day, attorneys argued before Judge William Sullivan about potential testimony from Emily Thorndike, who posted a TikTok video about her experience working at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Thorndike took issue with the positive description of McLean during Sprague’s questioning of Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband Patrick. 

Prosecutors say the testimony should not be allowed because Thorndike was not working at the facility when Clancy was admitted for treatment in 2022.

Judge Sullivan took arguments under advisement but did not make a ruling.

Lindsay Clancy trial

Julie Paul, the 61st witness in the trial, was on the stand briefly to start the day Tuesday. She testified for the prosecution Monday afternoon, telling the court she prescribed some psychiatric drugs to Clancy and that Clancy never mentioned having thoughts of killing herself or her children.

Paul was set for cross-examination on Tuesday, but it only lasted about a minute and she stepped down.

If convicted of first-degree murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If the jury of 12 women and six men finds that she was not criminally responsible for the deaths of her children, she will be sent to a state psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts.

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