The defense asked the prosecution's final witness whether sleep deprivation can cause psychosis. After a long pause: "It's possible." And no, the jury is not deliberating yet.
He has tried more than a hundred murder cases, never prosecuted one, and runs a sole practice out of Brockton. A full review of his career and of the defense he has built for Lindsay Clancy.
She has never spent a night in county jail. Where she has actually been since 2023, why, and the three very different places the verdict could send her next.
They are divorced. He remarried in spring 2026, moved to New York, and started a charity named for his children, all while remaining a witness in a murder trial about their deaths.
She is wheeled into court every morning and stays in the chair through every hour of testimony. The injuries date to the same night her children died, and the prosecution has built part of its case on them.
Rusty Yates lived through the online accusations aimed at Patrick Clancy today. He went on NewsNation to say there is nothing to them, and to explain what twenty-five years taught him.
A scholar who has spent her career studying mothers who kill argues in the New York Times that Clancy should be acquitted. Her explanation of why these defenses fail is the part that matters to this jury.
The prosecution never argued Lindsay Clancy was well. All six experts accept she was ill. The fight is over a distinction Massachusetts law draws sharply and almost nobody outside a courtroom draws at all.
The Commonwealth's last witness, an FBI forensic psychiatrist, seized on one detail: the voice stopped the instant the killings ended. Closing arguments have now moved to Thursday.
The Commonwealth's last expert conceded the illness and denied the incapacity, then handed jurors a second explanation for the voice she described. Closing arguments are expected Wednesday.
