{"id":2672932,"date":"2026-09-29T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsay-clancy-smiles-as-judge-makes-decision-on-motion-to-dismiss-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:09:45","slug":"lindsay-clancy-smiles-as-judge-makes-decision-on-motion-to-dismiss-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsay-clancy-smiles-as-judge-makes-decision-on-motion-to-dismiss-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy Smiles as Judge Makes Decision on Motion to Dismiss Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flindsay-clancy-smiles-as-judge-makes-decision-on-motion-to-dismiss-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2672932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A woman named Lindsay Clancy, accused of murdering her three children by strangulation, attended court and showed a smile during a hearing where her attorney requested a dismissal of the charges. Her lawyer argued there was no evidence linking her to the crime, claiming she suffered from postpartum psychosis at the time. Clancy&#8217;s defense accepted that she committed the act but contended she was not legally responsible due to her mental state. During the trial, witnesses reported she believed a male voice directed her to kill her children. Reddington, her lawyer, also publicly criticized the prosecution and even suggested potential political influences and future pardons. The case has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-hunter-hunter-biden-appears-in-court-for-paternity-dispute\/\" title=\"There&#039;s Hunter: Hunter Biden Appears in ... for Paternity Dispute\">garnered significant media attention<\/a> and public scrutiny.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The woman charged with murder in the strangling deaths of her three children found something to smile about in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Clancy, whose case has become a cause celebre among radical feminists, managed a courtroom grin at Judge William Sullivan\u2019s announcement that he would wait at least a month before ruling on Clancy\u2019s attorney\u2019s motion to dismiss the charges against her, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/29\/us-news\/lindsay-clancy-court-hearing-live-updates-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long-shot motion, but from news reports about the case, Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington was on a tear throughout Tuesday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, according to the New York Post, he argued there was a \u201ctotal and complete lack of evidence\u201d that Clancy had actually committed the crime which took place in January 2023, when her three children were strangled in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 OH. MY. GOD.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot believe Reddington just did this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHERE\u2019S THE EVIDENCE SHE KILLED HER KIDS?\u201d He says there is NO evidence \u2014 and that there was NO investigation. They just took other people\u2019s word for it that Lindsay killed her kids<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, some Lindsay Clancy\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7LVsL4NjeD\">pic.twitter.com\/7LVsL4NjeD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsay \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@TheLinzerShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheLinzerShow\/status\/2104952198924783959?\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That declaration likely came as news to everyone else in the courtroom, as well as the millions who have followed the high-profile case.<\/p>\n<p>Clancy\u2019s defense throughout her trial \u2014 the defense that Reddington himself argued with considerable drama \u2014 was not that she didn\u2019t kill the children. It was that she wasn\u2019t responsible for the killings because she had committed them while afflicted by postpartum psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, no one during the trial \u2014 including Reddington \u2014 disputed that Clancy was the physical agent of her three children\u2019s deaths. The only legal question was whether she was legally responsible for \u201cmurder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clancy also attempted suicide after the killings and ended up in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lindsay Clancy<\/p>\n<p>We must ask ourselves this.<\/p>\n<p>Why the 180 by Reddington as to who killed the kids?<\/p>\n<p>You stipulated that she murdered the kids. And now you are contending there is no evidence she murdered Cora, Dawson, and Callan?<\/p>\n<p>I thought you said she was crazy, flipped out, and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DsCahK53IS\">pic.twitter.com\/DsCahK53IS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CoffindafferFBI\/status\/2105019585338781940?\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During her trial, witnesses who spoke to Clancy when she was hospitalized at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-blamed-male-voice-ordering-kill-children-court-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said she told them<\/a> a \u201cmale voice\u201d had ordered her to kill her children and that she obeyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Reddington also denied being the cause of \u201cpersecution\u201d of the lone juror who wanted to convict Clancy of murder during her first trial, which ended when a mistrial was declared on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HOLY CRAP HE\u2019S LOST IT. Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington just went berserk on the prosecution calling him out for ATTACKING lone holdout juror Michael Desronvil<\/p>\n<p>REDDINGTON: \u201cI am TIRED of hearing \u2018persecution,\u2019 \u2018attacking.\u2019 I am doing all these \u2018terrible\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/55OEZXYNE6\">pic.twitter.com\/55OEZXYNE6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2104949119194181803?\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reddington, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/clancy-verdict-deadlocked-11-1-defense-pushes-holdout-removed-heated-exchange-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excoriated the juror<\/a> in court while deliberations were ongoing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancys-attorney-files-official-investigation-holdout-juror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a motion<\/a> seeking an investigation of the man after the mistrial, claimed his actions were only in response to comments by others.<\/p>\n<p>He included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-sends-warning-lindsay-clancy-following-mistrial-find-price-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> and South Carolina Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nancy-mace-wants-lindsay-clancy-executed-says-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Mace<\/a> among those to whom he was responding.<\/p>\n<p>Reddington \u2014 who at one point after the mistrial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancys-attorney-requests-pardon-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested Trump consider pardoning<\/a> Clancy \u2014 might also be already playing to a future jury. 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