""The unavoidable conclusion is that Lindsay Clancy cannot be given a fair trial in Plymouth County," her lawyer argued. Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three young children, is seeking to have her high-profile murder case tried in Boston. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has requested a change in venue for Clancy's upcoming trial, currently slated to begin Feb. 9 in Plymouth Superior Court. In a motion filed Monday, he pointed to the intense media coverage surrounding the case and requested the trial be held instead in Suffolk County."
""The allegations of the charges are violent and intriguing and they certainly have been portrayed in a fashion in the media so as to guarantee extensive exploitive, prejudicial publicity," Reddington wrote in a memo accompanying the request. He argued Clancy's case sent an "electric shock" running through Duxbury, leading to a staggering number of articles and news clips that make it "impossible" for her to receive a fair trial in her home county. Clancy, 35, is accused of strangling her three children before severely injuring herself in a suicide attempt on Jan. 24, 2023."
Lindsay Clancy, 35, is accused of strangling her three children on Jan. 24, 2023, and then severely injuring herself in a suicide attempt. 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. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed a motion to move the trial from Plymouth Superior Court to Suffolk County, citing intense local media coverage and prejudicial publicity that he says makes a fair trial impossible. Prosecutors portray Clancy as cold and calculated; the defense asserts heavy medication and postpartum mental illness and plans to pursue an insanity defense. The trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 9.
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