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Lindsay Clancy\u0027s trial entered a 12th day Wednesday, with the jury hearing testimony from police officers and a mental health counselor.\u00a0You can watch the trial in Plymouth Superior Court live on CBS News Boston in the embedded video or on YouTube when court is in session. Court is in recess until 2 p.m.Clancy, 36, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty.Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham said Clancy planned the murders and faked a suicide attempt.Clancy\u0027s attorney Kevin Reddington said Clancy admits to killing her children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.Mental health counselor takes witness standLatiesha Dukes, a mental health counselor who worked with Clancy, was on the stand for about two hours and stepped down just before 1 p.m. \u00a0\u00a0Dukes, who worked at the time for South Shore Hospital, first met with Clancy in late November 2022 into early December of that year. She met with Clancy four times total during that time period.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Dukes said she worked closest on Clancy\u0027s case with Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who finished her testimony on Tuesday."Her presenting concerns were anxiety, lack of sleep, suicidal ideation, thoughts of no longer wanting to live or be here," Dukes said.Dukes testified that her feeling about Clancy\u0027s diagnosis was postpartum anxiety because she did not have anxiety about most things. She recommended outpatient therapy, continued use of medications, and seeing her for weekly therapy. On Dec. 5, 2022, Clancy reported that she had a difficult weekend and had intrusive thoughts about wanting to die. Following her meeting with Clancy that day, Dukes said she recommended partial hospitalization. On Dec. 19, 2022, Dukes said Clancy seemed more engaged during a telehealth visit, was able to smile and laugh and was enjoying time with her family.Dukes testified that on her last visit with Clancy, she seemed to show an improvement of mood and ability to connect with others. She said that Clancy did not show signs of mania, delusions, paranoia or psychosis.\u00a0On cross-examination, Reddington asked about Clancy\u0027s reluctance to take medications."She was concerned about becoming addicted to medication, yes," Dukes said.On Tuesday with Jollotta on the stand, Reddington attempted to show that Clancy tried to attend an outpatient postpartum program at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island for two weeks in December 2022, but was turned away on the first day because they wanted to find out if she was overmedicated."Would you be surprised if I told you that they said they could not help her because she was overmedicated?" Reddington asked Dukes on Wednesday."It would surprise me, yes," Dukes said.Reddington also questioned Dukes over her testimony that Clancy laughed during her final visit, saying it was not in her notes.After Dukes stepped down, Cameron Daley, who was working for the Duxbury Police Department and stood watch outside of Clancy\u0027s room at Brigham and Women\u0027s Hospital after she killed her children, testified for less than five minutes.\u00a0Massachusetts State Police investigator testifiesEarlier, Sgt. Dan Lawlor testified. Lawlor has worked for Massachusetts State Police for nine years.\u00a0The night of the children\u0027s deaths, Lawlor went to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and saw Clancy, who was unable to speak and suffering from injuries after jumping out a second-floor window.Lawlor went to Boston Children\u0027s Hospital to check on 8-month-old Callan\u0027s status, then later went to Brigham and Women\u0027s Hospital, where Clancy was transferred, to stand watch outside the room.Reddington took over cross-examination after about 15 minutes. The defense attorney asked Lawlor about how no one was allowed to get into Clancy\u0027s hospital room. Eventually, Reddington got a court order for psychologist Paul Zeizel to enter the room to meet with Clancy."Isn\u0027t it fair to say that one of the contentions of the district attorneys is that Paul Zeizel, my doctor, that I got a court order to get in and see her, told her to call Pat and tell him that she heard voices?" Reddington asked.When Reddington referred to Pat, he was speaking about Patrick Clancy. Lindsay and Patrick Clancy were married at the time of their children\u0027s deaths, but have since divorced.Following that question, the judge asked to see attorneys at sidebar due to an objection by the prosecution. After about 20 minutes, the judge sent jurors out of the room to question Lawlor without the jury present.With the jury out of the room, Reddington asked about Lawlor\u0027s recollection that lead investigator Josh McKelligan had told him that at some point when Clancy was hospitalized, she called Patrick to indicate she was hearing voices. Reddington suggested that the theory investigators were trying to use was that Zeizel had suggested Clancy make the phone call."I don\u0027t know if it\u0027s a theory or not, I just recall the conversation," Lawlor said.The prosecutor then questioned Lawlor without the jury present. "You never had a conversation with the prosecution about what the theory was, did you?" she asked. Lawlor said he had not, saying it was only with the fellow trooper."Is this conversation guiding your testimony?" Buckingham asked. Lawlor said it was not.The judge took arguments under advisement and the jury returned a short time later.With the jury back in the room, Reddington asked Lawlor if he and McKelligan talked about the theory that Zeizel "is the reason that she told her husband she heard voices." Lawlor said they did talk about that theory. "There\u0027s no investigator basis for that, that\u0027s McKelligan\u00...
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