Lindsay Clancy Trial- Day 7
- brooke mcleod
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
Witness #42- Eitan Negri- Called by prosecution
Physician Assistant at Brighams
Job is to assesses patient, come up with a plan of treatment with attending physician and executing plan.
Testifies Lindsay had multiple injuries some of which required consulting other services within the hospital but he was tasked with the lacerations
Notes on one wrist she had a laceration was 3 cm deep and required 3 sutures which he preformed and another laceration wasn't as deep and was able to be sealed with steri strips
The other wrist had two lacerations, one was 2 cm deep and required 1 suture and the other was able to be sealed with steri strips
on cross he notes she was critically ill and wouldn't have been able to just get up and leave the hospital.
Had nothing to do with treatment of the spine or the massive blood transfusion but did manage the chest tubes after they had been placed
Notes she did code at one point but he was not there for it.
Witness #43- Nicholas Roberts- called by the prosecution
state police crime lab
Reporting analyst on Lindsay's toxicology testing
Test was negative for alcohol and THC, tested positive and noted 5 different Benzos but not at toxic levels
Witness #44- Justin Brower- Called by prosecution
State Police Lab- Toxicologist
Spoke to the levels of concentration of each drug found and noted:
Lamotrigine, mirtazapine, trazodone and diazepam were within therapeutic ranges.
Quetiapine was somewhat elevated but not at a toxic or suicidal level
Prosecution Stipulates to Certain Facts
Chain of custody for evidence — the defence agreed not to contest how certain evidence was collected, transferred and maintained.
DNA evidence — including the handling and testing of DNA-related evidence.
Blood and bodily-fluid evidence — the defence agreed not to require the Commonwealth to separately establish every foundational step for this evidence.
Exercise-band evidence — the handling/chain of custody of the bands could be established without calling numerous additional witnesses.
Postmortem evidence/toxicology involving the children was also included among the stipulated forensic facts reported from the agreement
this should in theory speed up the trial and minimize witness needing to be called
Witness #45- Katarina Stashyn- DNA Analyst
Police State crime lab
Explained how DNA profiles are created and how the are compared ( defence was annoyed time was wasted on this as the had agreed not challenge any of the process)
Created profiles for each member of the family
compared them too the exercise bands but due to familiar DNA have many similarites it was hard to rule certain people out
Said the centre of the black band had Cora's DNA for sure.
Sample taken from outside of the house matched Lindsay Clancy
In my opinion this was a waste of time. the case isn't about who did it, it's about why. and being that all family members lived in that home it would make sense for any of their DNA to be present.
Witness #46- Elanie Ross- Called by the prosecution
Former Nanny for Clancy family
Originally hired for when Lindsay went back to work a couple days a week
Started early to familiarize her self with callen and the family
Found Lindsay to be a good and caring mother
Lindsay would leave her instructions and information through a notebook
She felt Lindsay was an involved mother who loved her kids
Never had concerns about the children's safety
was aware of her mental health struggles and said Lindsay had to quit breastfeeding due to medications
A video clip was shown of the nanny holding Callen and feeding him a bottle.
Personal opinion of this witness:
she seemed to say the same things Patrick did about her being a good mom who loved the kids but was struggling postpartum. the video being shown was purely used to envoke emotion if you ask me and i'm not really sure why the judge allowed it as he seems to be very fair and nice and has denied things with more relevance to the case.
Court ended for the day
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