Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Denies She Will Testify in Ex-Husband's Suit Against Her Providers
Photo: Fox NewsA lawyer for Lindsay Clancy said Wednesday that she does not plan to testify in a civil lawsuit filed by her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, against her former mental health providers, disputing statements from Patrick Clancy's attorney. The case had its first hearing Wednesday in Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. Patrick and Lindsay Clancy each filed separate lawsuits earlier this year, claiming the providers did not take her pleas for help seriously and so contributed to the deaths of their three children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. The suits say Lindsay Clancy strangled the children in the basement of the family's Duxbury home during a mental health crisis worsened by poor treatment and prescription mismanagement. Lawyers for the providers and hospitals asked a judge to dismiss the case, arguing their clients are immune under Massachusetts law. Attorney Tim Sweetland told the court the 86-paragraph complaint never alleges she told them she intended or threatened to harm the children. Patrick Clancy's lawyer, Howard Cooper, said he expects she will testify otherwise once her Fifth Amendment issues are resolved. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, issued a statement rejecting that. She did not testify at her first murder trial.
Fox News, the right-leaning outlet, frames the story around the substance of the dispute: its headline and summary stress that Clancy's lawyer denies she will testify about homicidal thoughts and says she never told providers about homicidal ideation, setting that against Patrick Clancy's counsel. CBS News, on the left, covers the same denial but leads with her not testifying at the murder trial and builds the story around the Dedham hearing. It adds the providers' immunity argument, Sweetland's quoted point about the complaint, and Cooper's expectation that she will testify. Both sides agree on the core facts: the denial, the providers' defense, and the dispute with Cooper. The difference is emphasis, with Fox centering the homicidal-thoughts question and CBS the courtroom procedure and legal arguments. TMZ, the independent outlet, differs mainly in tone, casting it as Reddington blasting and firing back at the ex-husband's legal team through a Wednesday statement.
How the sides differ Right sources stress her lawyer's denial that she told providers of homicidal thoughts; left sources add the court hearing and immunity arguments; alternative sources frame it as a lawyer feud.
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