With the trial over, Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz must now decide if he will retry Lindsay Clancy and, if so, what charges she will face. He said that decision won’t be made Friday.
“I do know that one of the questions that are out here right now are regarding re-trials. I will let you know that there will be no decisions made today regarding that. I’m going to be meeting with our team and we will address this case further at the appropriate time and in the context of an official court proceeding,” Cruz said at a news conference outside the courthouse Friday afternoon.
He also defended his decision to charge Clancy with first-degree murder in the case.
“Because this case is not about the healthcare system or about how women are treated in it,” Cruz said. “Those are all important issues. They stir up emotion and sometimes they stir up anger. This case, however, was about Lindsay Clancy and what she did on January 24, 2023, and the cruel and calculated killing of three innocents. I understand that postpartum depression has impacted the lives of countless women and their families and I sympathize with their struggles. The investigation into these heinous killings however, did not establish that they were caused by such depression, and based upon that assessment, it was determined that the charges of first-degree murder were warranted and appropriate in these circumstances.”
“This has been an emotional trial for everybody,” Cruz said. “But in the end, I bring it all back to the child victims in this case – Cora, Dawson and Callan. This was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies. We are here at this courthouse today because those children are not.”
“Children were murdered and it’s our job to seek justice. I appreciate that there are strong feelings and opinions tied to this case, however, our job is to set aside our feelings and focus solely on the facts. The facts are Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and the evidence suggested to us that she was in control of her actions when she committed those homicides,” Cruz said.
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