Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney has appealed to President Donald Trump to pardon her for killing her three children after the high-profile case ended in a mistrial on the seventh day of deliberations last week.
Kevin Reddington spoke for the first time Tuesday about what comes next for Clancy, after the jury was split 11-to-1 over whether the 36-year-old former nurse is criminally responsible for killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan in 2023.
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady — the type of person she is, what she’s been through — and consider a pardon,” Reddington said during the interview with Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos.
Reddington said he hoped Trump would issue the pardon since he had "felt compelled to speak out about the case."
Trump addressed the case while taking reporters' questions last week. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse. But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be [a] mental institution or jail or something,” he said.
Trump is legally unable to carry out the attorney’s request. The president cannot pardon Clancy because she faces state-level murder charges in Massachusetts, and his pardoning power only applies to federal crimes.
When asked about a potential retrial, Reddington said he hoped “after sitting through this trial and seeing the evidence that was presented” that both sides would be able to come to an agreement.
Reddington also said that he believed the 11-1 split favored not guilty by insanity.
Clancy doesn’t deny strangling her children to death in the basement of her Massachusetts home before trying to take her own life. However, her attorney has argued that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, which left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Prosecutors claimed she knew what she was doing when she killed her three kids.
Reddington said that he wished he had more “circumspect” before saying his case “crushed” District Attorney Tim Cruz last week. However, he also noted that his words were all “bravado,” and said emotions were high after finishing the lengthy trial.
“I don’t regret saying it at all,” he said, noting that he “perhaps could have been a little more circumspect” and simply said that he “did a good job” with his defense.
When asked what he makes of the hold-out member of the jury, Reddington said he wasn’t upset about the juror but about “all the work everyone put into this, including these jurors.”
“I would defend that individual’s right to be a holdout forever; that’s part of our judicial system. I respect that and I would certainly defend his right to do that,” Reddington said.
Redding said that his frustration stemmed from a note given to the court that the holdout “had doubt but he would not apply reasonable doubt as presented by the judge.”
“That’s not right, and that’s why I was upset,” the attorney said.
Reddington blamed the deaths of Clancy’s children on her medical team and the system for failing her. According to the lawyer, Clancy’s meeting with her psychiatrist - who had claimed to be an expert on postpartum depression after only practicing for a month - was “the worst thing she could have done.”
“She said in letters to family she was suffering, and she was suffering horribly. She called suicide hotlines twice. This girl’s life was ruined,” he said.
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