Kevin Reddington sets the record straight after allegations of shocking evidence in Lindsay Clancy hearing

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer has set the record straight after making a seemingly stunning reversal of his trial strategy when he suggested this week that there was no evidence the accused murderous mother strangled her three children.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, at a hearing Tuesday for the 36-year-old mother of three, appeared to backtrack from his trial tactic of not disputing that she killed the children but claiming she was psychotic at the time.

“Where is the evidence that she did this?” » he asked the court, before insisting: “This whole matter is based on speculation. »

“She was told what happened. She had no memory of what happened,” added the lawyer. “There is no evidence that she admitted to doing this.”

Reddington said prosecutors still had to reach a minimum level of evidence to support the triple murder charges and claimed they had failed to do so, arguing for the judge to make the required finding of not guilty – a motion he tried unsuccessfully twice at trial.

“What I did was exactly what I argued in my finding to the jury, exactly what I argued in the motions for required finding,” Reddington explained on “Hot Mics with Billy Bush.”

“The government has to prove probable cause,” he continued. “If they can’t prove the citizen’s guilt based on their investigation, that person is entitled to a not guilty no matter the defense.”

“And this investigation has been so horrific, so atrocious that it defies, it boggles the mind why this investigation ended the way it did, so I had to raise that issue in the required finding motion,” he said.

The 75-year-old veteran defense attorney said Tuesday that DNA and fingerprint evidence was lacking, the timeline of the alleged crimes was unworkable and the investigation was incomplete.

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, however, said it was “laughable” to claim there was not enough evidence in the case to show that Clancy, on January 24, 2023, used exercise bands to strangle her children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.

Prosecutors argued the fact that Clancy’s DNA was found on the ends of the exercise bands, the fact that she was the only adult in the home with the children and her Apple Health data that tracked her movements around the house are just some of the evidence that she committed these horrific acts.

Judge William Sullivan said he would rule at a later date.

At trial, Reddington did not dispute that Clancy killed the children, but testified that she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and had hallucinated a voice ordering her to kill them as well as herself.

But prosecutors said Clancy coldly calculated how to carry out her plan, including sending her then-husband on an errand.

The jury – made up of nine women and three men – heard testimony that Clancy had mental health issues months before the murders.

During that time, she saw a psychiatrist, called a suicide hotline twice, visited two perinatal clinics and even spent almost five days in a psychiatric institute.

He was also prescribed 13 psychiatric medications that Reddington said worsened his declining mental state.

After five weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations, Sullivan declared a mistrial following three notes from the panel indicating they were hopelessly at an impasse.

Some jurors have since come forward, revealing that 11 of the 12 wanted to find Clancy not criminally responsible and only one was willing to convict her.

Prosecutors have not yet indicated how they plan to move forward with the case and whether they would retry Clancy on the same charges, downgrade the charges, drop them altogether or attempt to reach a plea deal with the defense.

Clancy is due back in court on November 2.

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