Dr Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist who testified in the Andrea Yates case, is expected to be a key defense witness in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial.
Clancy, 36, 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 Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. Because she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis, reddington has been trying to show that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible.
Judge William Sullivan of Plymouth Superior Court said closing arguments will likely happen Monday or Tuesday, depending on how long the final four witnesses take on the stand.
His testimony in the Andrea Yates case
He said he plans to call Dr Phillip Resnick as his final witness via Zoom on Friday, as per CBS . On June 20, 2001, police found Andrea Yates outside her Clear Lake, Texas, home. Yates had filled the bathtub and drowned her sons Luke, 2, Paul, 3, John, 5, and her 6-month-old daughter Mary. Her eldest son, Noah, 7, saw his sister in the tub and tried to run, but Yates caught him and drowned him too. She placed the bodies of her four youngest children on her bed, covered them with a sheet and repeatedly called 911. Dr Resnick was a key defense witness in Andrea Yates’ 2001 trial.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is nearing the end of his case in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity after killing her five children in Texas, as per CNN .
She told officers she had drowned her five children.
