Hospital care, causes of death, injury evidence, and the limits of medical inference.
Evidence Cards
Card #01: Adult toxicology
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Compounds reported at trial.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Lamotrigine, mirtazapine, trazodone, and diazepam were reported within therapeutic ranges; quetiapine was somewhat elevated but not at a toxic or overdose level. [Trial Day 7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YuM1a0J08Y)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Screening was negative for alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, fentanyl, opiates, and cannabinoids. [Trial Day 6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoa0AtT_fc) · [Trial Day 7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YuM1a0J08Y)
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Card #02: Children's medical response
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Emergency efforts and official outcome.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Responders and hospital witnesses described resuscitation efforts for all three children. [Trial Day 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6V0wEeMxU) · [Trial Day 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso)
[VERIFIED FACT] Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that evening; Callan died January 27 after catastrophic brain injury. [DA release](https://plymouthda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DuxburyPCONF.pdf) · [DA indictment announcement](https://plymouthda.com/news/2023-press-releases/duxbury-woman-indicted-on-charges-that-she-murdered-her-three-children/)
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Card #03: January 24 · evening
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Hospital transport.
[VERIFIED FACT] Cora and Dawson were transported to Beth Israel Deaconess–Plymouth and pronounced dead; Callan was flown to Boston Children's Hospital. [Plymouth DA release](https://plymouthda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DuxburyPCONF.pdf)
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Card #04: Causes and mechanism evidence
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Official findings and medical-examiner testimony.
[VERIFIED FACT] Official findings listed Cora's and Dawson's causes of death as asphyxia and Callan's as complications of asphyxia. [DA indictment announcement](https://plymouthda.com/news/2023-press-releases/duxbury-woman-indicted-on-charges-that-she-murdered-her-three-children/)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Dr. Kimberly Springer testified that Callan's injuries were consistent with ligature strangulation. [Trial Day 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93sfJyLzhqM) · [AP medical report](https://apnews.com/article/757f3d658943cb7a993aeba42f0c7e5d)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] On Day 12, neuropathologist Dr. Renee Stonebridge described eye hemorrhages in Cora and Dawson consistent with the asphyxial context and hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in Callan; Dr. Barbara Olson testified that Cora and Dawson died from ligature strangulation. [Trial Day 12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0) · [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
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Card #05: January 25 · hospital examination
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Forensic collection from Lindsay.
[VERIFIED FACT] A hospital warrant return records injury photographs, hand and fingernail swabs, and a nursing note collected during a forensic examination. [Warrant packet](https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Linday%20Clancy%20Search%20Warrant.pdf)
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Card #06: Lindsay's injuries
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Severe fall trauma and non-deep cuts.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Medical witnesses described hypothermia around 82.1°F, low blood pressure, complex thoracic and spinal fractures, later cardiac arrest and transfusion, plus neck and wrist cuts described as superficial relative to the internal trauma. [Trial Day 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso) · [Trial Day 6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoa0AtT_fc)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] The wrist wounds nevertheless required repair with sutures and Steri-Strips. [Trial Day 7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YuM1a0J08Y)
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Card #07: January 27, 2023
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Callan's death and official cause findings.
[VERIFIED FACT] Callan died after catastrophic brain injury. Later official findings listed Cora's and Dawson's causes of death as asphyxia and Callan's as complications of asphyxia. [DA indictment announcement](https://plymouthda.com/news/2023-press-releases/duxbury-woman-indicted-on-charges-that-she-murdered-her-three-children/) · [Trial Day 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso)
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Card #08: 'Superficial' is a medical description
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Why the term is not proof of staging.
[UNKNOWN] No cited medical witness testified that the cut depth proved a fake suicide attempt or identified another actor; editorially equating 'superficial' with 'staged' exceeds the testimony. [Trial Day 6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoa0AtT_fc)
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Card #09: August 12, 2026 · Trial Day 12
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Counseling, evidence collection, hospital watch, and postmortem testimony.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Sgt. Dan Lawlor, Latiesha Dukes, Cameron Daley, Dr. Renee Stonebridge, and Dr. Barbara Olson testified; the day covered collected clothing and medicines, hospital access, perinatal counseling, neuropathology, and the causes and mechanisms of the children's deaths. [Trial Day 12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0) · [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
[DISPUTED CLAIM] Questioning explored an investigator's secondhand theory about whether the first command-voice report was prompted, but no witness with personal knowledge established coaching. [Court TV report](https://www.courttv.com/news/lawyers-in-lindsay-clancy-case-get-heated-over-whether-she-was-instructed-to-claim-she-heard-voices/)
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Card #10: Post-event psychiatric observations
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Clinical encounters after the incident.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Post-event psychiatric witnesses described their observations, including no overt psychosis in certain encounters; those later observations do not alone resolve Clancy's condition at the offense time. [Trial Day 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso) · [Massachusetts instruction](https://www.mass.gov/info-details/model-jury-instructions-on-homicide-i-criminal-responsibility)
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Card #11: Provider and forensic witnesses
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Specialists whose testimony supplies the public record.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Public testimony through completed Day 12 included clinicians Jennifer Tufts, Julie Paul, Rebecca Jollotta, Alia Goodheart, and Latiesha Dukes; medical witnesses Kimberly Springer, Renee Stonebridge, and Barbara Olson; DNA analyst Katarina Stashyn; and multiple evidence, toxicology, emergency, and blood-pattern witnesses. [Court TV trial tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/) · [Trial Day 12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0)
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Card #12: Dr. Olson prior statement · attribution limit
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The lead agent's recollection of a prior medical-examiner statement, not new direct expert testimony.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] McKelligan recalled a prior Dr. Barbara Olson statement about continued pressure after unconsciousness. This is the agent's sworn recollection, not fresh Day 13 testimony from Olson.
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Card #13: Statements attributed after the fall
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Accounts reported in testimony and emergency records.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Patrick testified that Lindsay told him she had tried to kill herself and that the children were in the basement. [Trial Day 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3oGUuSo7JQ) · [CBS recap](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-recap-911-call-ex-husband/)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Medical witnesses later described severe fall-related spinal and thoracic trauma, hypothermia, and low blood pressure alongside comparatively superficial neck and wrist cuts. [Trial Day 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso) · [Trial Day 6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoa0AtT_fc)
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Card #14: Dr. Michael Vulfovich · record-review opinion on Lindsay's injuries
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A defense emergency-medicine expert described severe hypothermia, lacerations, fractures, cardiac arrest, and injuries consistent with self-injury while declining to infer intent.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Dr. Michael Vulfovich, a board-certified emergency physician retained by the defense, reviewed scene photos and South Shore and Brigham records rather than treating Lindsay. He described severe hypothermia, reduced responsiveness, neck and wrist lacerations, spinal fractures, cardiac arrest, hemorrhage, and other injuries. He called the cuts consistent with self-injurious behavior but said he could not gauge intent. Questions asking whether the wounds were fake or constituted a suicide attempt drew sustained objections; those questions are not evidence.
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Card #15: Trial Day 5 · August 3
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Hospital care, scene searches, and journals.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Medical, ICU, police, and evidence witnesses addressed treatment, the bedroom and window, item collection, and journal excerpts documenting distress and medication tracking. [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ol0huRYsso) · [AP diary report](https://apnews.com/article/5a1d1b257e454709dc3f9476e5529de8)
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Card #16: Dr. Elizabeth Laposata · fall reconstruction and ligature-mechanics opinion
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The forensic pathologist attributed Lindsay's spinal injuries to a 13-to-14-foot headfirst fall and discussed ligature-strangulation mechanics; neither opinion establishes intent or third-party involvement.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Forensic pathologist Elizabeth Laposata testified remotely that Lindsay Clancy's C1 Jefferson fracture and thoracic compression fractures were consistent with a headfirst fall of roughly 13 to 14 feet. She also discussed differences between manual and ligature strangulation and described ligature compression as capable of producing rapid loss of consciousness. [UNKNOWN] The opinion does not establish why the fall occurred, Lindsay's mental state, the exact timing of the killings, or any third-party role.
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Card #17: Trial Day 8 · August 6
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Medical examiner and community witnesses.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] The medical examiner described injuries consistent with ligature strangulation; the pediatrician, teachers, friends, relatives, a colleague, and a police witness also testified. [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93sfJyLzhqM) · [AP medical report](https://apnews.com/article/757f3d658943cb7a993aeba42f0c7e5d)
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Card #18: Trial Day 12 · August 12
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Evidence collection, perinatal counseling, hospital access, and postmortem evidence.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Sgt. Dan Lawlor described collecting Clancy's clothing and wedding band, checking Callan's status, documenting a home search and pill bottles, and later guarding Clancy's hospital room. [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0) · [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Latiesha Dukes described anxiety, insomnia, depression and passive suicidal ideation without an active plan, with temporary improvement observed at the final December 19 telehealth visit; Cameron Daley described a January 25 hospital watch with no outside visitor or attorney entering during his shift. [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0) · [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Dr. Renee Stonebridge gave autopsy-related neuropathology evidence concerning all three children; Dr. Barbara Olson testified that Cora and Dawson died from ligature strangulation. [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0) · [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
[DISPUTED CLAIM] Lawlor relayed a secondhand investigative theory that Dr. Paul Zeizel prompted the command-voice account, but Lawlor was outside the closed room, heard no conversation, and said no prosecutor had told him that theory. [Court TV report](https://www.courttv.com/news/lawyers-in-lindsay-clancy-case-get-heated-over-whether-she-was-instructed-to-claim-she-heard-voices/) · [Official Court TV stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltlkNTXKO0)
[VERIFIED FACT] The Commonwealth had not rested when Day 12 ended; no verdict existed. [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)
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Card #19: Museum of Science video · January 8, 2023
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A family video admitted for observation, not retrospective diagnosis.
[VERIFIED FACT] Commonwealth Exhibit 14 showed Lindsay guiding the children during a Museum of Science outing. [UNKNOWN] A brief view of outward behavior cannot establish or exclude a psychiatric condition.
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Card #20: Dr. Donald Condie · record review and psychopharmacology testimony in progress
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The defense psychiatrist said he had not examined Lindsay or evaluated criminal responsibility; he discussed treatment records, reported deterioration, laboratory considerations, and medication complications before cross began.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Dr. Donald Condie identified himself as a child, adolescent, adult clinical and forensic psychiatrist. He testified that he had never met, interviewed, or examined Lindsay Clancy and had not evaluated criminal responsibility; he consulted on psychopharmacology and reviewed treatment records. [SWORN TESTIMONY] He criticized some records as sparse, described reported deterioration, discussed postpartum laboratory considerations, and said his review found no blood testing by two named providers. [UNKNOWN] Cross-examination was still underway at the noon cutoff, so this card does not characterize his completed opinion or the eventual scope of cross-examination.
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Card #21: Day 15 morning expert rulings · limited slides, deferred Zoom, bounded Condie scope
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Outside the jury's presence, the judge limited Laposata's demonstrative slides, deferred her remote testimony after technical problems, and permitted Condie to address psychopharmacology while barring standard-of-care opinions.
[VERIFIED FACT] After argument outside the jury's presence, Judge William Sullivan allowed only slides 4, 5, and 6 from proposed Dr. Elizabeth Laposata demonstratives following a prosecution accuracy objection. Remote technology problems then deferred Laposata's testimony; she had not testified by the noon cutoff. [VERIFIED FACT] The judge overruled a prosecution objection to Dr. Donald Condie's revised testimony but limited him to the disclosed psychopharmacology scope and barred standard-of-care opinions. [UNKNOWN] These rulings do not establish what Laposata may ultimately say or how the jury will weigh Condie's evidence.
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Card #22: Dr. Donald Condie · completed record-review testimony and attribution limits
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Condie criticized aspects of psychiatric care and linked record-described symptoms to postpartum psychosis, while acknowledging no personal examination and no pre-event voice report to treating clinicians.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Defense psychiatrist Donald Condie reviewed treatment records rather than examining Lindsay Clancy. He criticized sparse notes and the absence of blood or thyroid testing and testified that recorded symptoms were consistent with postpartum psychosis. [SWORN TESTIMONY] Condie acknowledged that the records did not show Lindsay reporting voices to her treating doctors before the killings. His retrospective opinion is evidence offered by the defense, not a diagnosis made by a treating clinician or a finding by the jury.
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Card #23: Dr. Paul Zeizel · hospital observations, voice report, and coaching denial
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Zeizel described hospital meetings and a facilitated call in which Lindsay reported a male command voice; he denied planting the account, while cross-examination remains incomplete.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Clinical and forensic psychologist Paul Zeizel described meeting Lindsay Clancy while she was hospitalized, shackled, and intubated. He testified that he facilitated a call with Patrick during which Lindsay mentioned a male voice directing her to harm the children and herself. Zeizel denied planting that statement. [SWORN TESTIMONY] He also relayed that testing by a government doctor found no evidence of faking or exaggeration. [UNKNOWN] The testimony establishes a reported account and a firsthand denial of prompting; it does not independently verify that a hallucination occurred. Prosecution cross-examination continues August 19.
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Card #24: Dr. Paul Zeizel · criminal-responsibility opinion and cross-examination limits
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Zeizel gave a defense expert opinion on wrongfulness and testing, while cross-examination examined his defense relationship, medication-history accuracy, source review, and public statements.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Zeizel opined that Lindsay Clancy did not appreciate the wrongfulness of her acts and testified about testing that he said did not indicate antisocial personality disorder. These are defense expert opinions, not adjudicated facts. [SWORN TESTIMONY] On cross, Zeizel acknowledged that he had only perused another expert's report and had not reviewed every page of the Tewksbury records. The prosecution also questioned his relationship with defense counsel, medication-history accuracy, and played part of his December 2023 press conference. [UNKNOWN] Cross-examination and the trial day were incomplete at the cutoff; the morning record neither proves nor disproves the reported command voice or criminal responsibility.
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Card #25: Sheila Cavanaugh · hospital chaplain account and missing-note qualification
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The chaplain recalled a January 31 voice statement that predates Zeizel's first hospital visit, while cross-examination established that her contemporaneous notes did not document it.
[VERIFIED FACT] Official hospital records and the witness's spelling identify her as Sheila Cavanaugh. [SWORN TESTIMONY] Cavanaugh described more than 200 contacts beginning when Clancy was unconscious or intubated and recalled that on January 31 Clancy said she was glad her children were safe, then described a persistent male voice commanding compliance or neither she nor the children would be safe. This is sworn recollection of an out-of-court statement, not independent proof of a hallucination. [SWORN TESTIMONY] Cross-examination established that Cavanaugh's contemporaneous notes omitted the voice account even though they contained other observations and quotations; she explained that her chaplain role was not a clinical evaluation and that conversations were confidential.
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Card #26: Dr. Phillip Resnick · criminal-responsibility opinion and cross-examination limits
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The defense psychiatrist opined that bipolar II depression and postpartum psychosis left Clancy unable to conform her conduct, while the judge and cross-examination sharply limited what his account proves.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Resnick diagnosed bipolar II disorder with severe depression, opined that Clancy was psychotic on January 24, and said a command hallucination and delusion of influence left her unable to conform her conduct to law. These are retained-expert opinions, not adjudicated facts. [VERIFIED FACT] Judge Sullivan instructed jurors that statements made to evaluators were not proof of the facts asserted and could be considered only as a basis for mental-condition opinion. [SWORN TESTIMONY] Cross-examination established alternative propositions: command hallucinations can be fabricated or resisted, treatment records repeatedly documented denials of homicidal ideation, and the timing was atypical under some definitions of postpartum psychosis.
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Card #27: Dr. Aram Mack · Commonwealth rebuttal begins
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The prosecution's first rebuttal witness began with qualifications and method; no case-specific opinion had been stated by the noon cutoff.
[VERIFIED FACT] After the defense rested, the Commonwealth called Aram Mack, who identified himself as a psychiatrist and professor with board certifications in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. [SWORN TESTIMONY] He said the prosecution retained him for an independent review and began explaining general forensic methodology and Massachusetts criminal responsibility. [UNKNOWN] His direct examination was still underway, so this card does not state his ultimate case opinion or a complete rebuttal roster.
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Card #28: Dr. Avram Mack · opposing diagnosis and unfinished cross-examination
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The prosecution psychiatrist diagnosed major depression rather than bipolar disorder or psychosis and opined that Clancy retained legal capacity; his cross-examination is not finished.
[SWORN TESTIMONY] Mack diagnosed a major depressive episode and rejected bipolar and psychosis diagnoses in his review. He opined that Clancy retained substantial capacity to appreciate wrongfulness and conform her conduct. These are retained-expert opinions, not jury findings. [SWORN TESTIMONY] He relayed Clancy's reported account of a male voice and interpreted her statements and conduct differently from defense experts; those reports are not independent proof. [SWORN TESTIMONY] Cross-examination challenged his limited postpartum case experience, retention, collateral work, and diagnostic framework and will continue Monday.
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