By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-01 17:11:52 | Updated at 2026-10-01 21:58:40
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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer set the record straight after making an apparent stunning reversal of his trial strategy when he suggested this week there was no evidence the accused killer mom strangled her three kids.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, at a hearing Tuesday for the 36-year-old mother of three, appeared to backpedal on his trial tactic of not disputing that she killed the kids but claiming she was psychotic at the time.
“Where is the evidence that she did this?” he asked the court, before insisting “This entire case is based on speculation.”
“She was told what happened. She had no memory of what happened,” the lawyer added. “There’s no evidence that she admitted that she did this.”
Reddington said prosecutors still needed to reach a minimum bar of evidence to support the triple murder charges and claimed they failed to do so as he argued for the judge to make a required finding of not guilty — a motion he unsuccessfully tried twice at trial.
“What I did was argued exactly what I argued in my closing to the jury, exactly what I argued in 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 guilt of the citizen based on their investigation that person is entitled to a not guilty regardless of what a defense may be.”
“And this investigation was so horrific, so atrocious that it just defies, it boggles the mind why this investigation ended up the way it did, so I had to raise that issue on the motion for a required finding,” he said.
The 75-year-old veteran defense lawyer said Tuesday that the DNA and fingerprint evidence was lacking, the timeline of the alleged crimes was unfeasible and the investigation was incomplete.
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, however, said it was “laughable” to claim there wasn’t enough evidence in the case to show Clancy on Jan. 24, 2023, used elastic exercise bands to strangle her children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
Prosecutors have argued the fact that Clancy’s DNA was found on the ends of the exercise bands, the fact she was the only adult home with the kids and her Apple Health data tracking her movements through the house as just some of the evidence she carried out the horrific acts.
Judge William Sullivan said he would rule at a later date.
At trial, Reddington didn’t contest that Clancy slayed the kids but said she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice commanding her to kill them and herself.
But prosecutors claimed Clancy coolly calculated how to execute her plan, including by sending her then-husband out on errands.
The jury — made up of nine women and three men — heard testimony that Clancy struggled with her mental health months before the killings.
During that time she saw a psychiatrist, called a suicide hotline twice, consulted with two perinatal clinics and even did a nearly five-day stint in a mental institute.
She was also prescribed 13 psychiatric drugs, which Reddington claimed worsened her declining mental state.
After five weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations, Sullivan declared a mistrial following three notes from the panel that they were hopelessly deadlocked.
Some jurors have since come forward revealing 11 of the 12 wanted to find Clancy not criminally responsible and only one was prepared to convict her.
Prosecutors haven’t yet said how they plan to proceed with the case and whether they will retry Clancy on the same charges, downgrade the charges, drop them altogether or attempt to strike a plea bargain with the defense.
Clancy is due back in court on Nov. 2.
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