Lindsay Clancy's ex wants distressing pics of kids and 911 call kept from public as potential jurors stunned by case

The ex-husband of a Massachusetts woman who strangled her three children, then tried to kill herself, is seeking to keep sensitive evidence from public view, as prospective jurors beg to be excused from the disturbing case.

Lindsay Clancy, 35, is accused of ruthlessly murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – back in January 2023.

Although Clancy does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis.

When jury selection for the high-profile trial kicked off on Monday, Clancy's ex-husband filed a motion asking Judge William Sullivan to block access to his 911 call on the day of the murders, WPRI reported.

Patrick Clancy, who has since remarried, also asked that the judge ban photos of his children, including images taken before their deaths, at the crime scene and during their autopsies, from being shown.

'The potential harmful and everlasting emotional impact to Mr. Clancy and his family of any public dissemination of such graphic and sensational evidence and exhibits related to his three children is immeasurable,' his attorney David Meier explained in the motion.

'Likewise, the disrespect for the dignity and memory of the three child victims that would inherently be occasioned by such dissemination speaks for itself.' 

Meier noted that Patrick is 'not seeking to close the courtroom.'

'Mr. Clancy seeks a narrowly circumscribed order limiting the recording, display, and disclosure by the media (or any other persons) of certain graphic and sensational items of evidence related to his three young children, which, if disseminated, would only serve to perpetuate the already severe emotional harm to Mr. Clancy and his family,' he wrote.

Jury selection entered its fourth day on Thursday as the prosecution and the defense struggled to find jurors willing to sit through the trial. 

On Wednesday, one man who had previously been selected to serve on the jury told the judge: 'I just don’t know if I can handle being on the jury,' The Boston Globe reported.

The judge dismissed the man, adding him to the more than 250 potential jurors who have already been excused from the case.

On Thursday, lawyers began their search for one more juror after that man was dismissed. 

However, the case took another turn when two more jurors asked to be dismissed and the judge granted their request.

In total, eighteen jurors, including six alternates, are expected to be chosen over several days for the trial in Plymouth, which is near the family's home in Duxbury, an upscale coastal suburb about 30 miles south of Boston. 

The judge said he expects the trial to last six to eight weeks.

Prosecutors are planning to argue the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

On the day of the killings, Clancy asked her husband to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy.

Clancy strangled the children with exercise bands, then used multiple methods to try to end her own life.

She was paralyzed after falling from the home's second-story window and is being held at a state hospital.

Patrick is expected to testify in her defense after he filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing multiple doctors and healthcare providers of overmedicating his wife and causing her to spiral out of control.

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