Lindsay Clancy (Part 4/Pre-trial)

So the jury, they did jury selection this week in court, which is not live streamed because it's, uh, you know, for the anonymity of the jurors.

But a jury of 18 has been seated, [clears throat] and so we have heard that opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday.

So I think this will be our last shorter update because starting Monday we're gonna be getting into the trial, into opening statements, and into the evidence.

So after jury selection on, was complete on Friday, they came back for two mo- to hear two motions prior to the trial starting Monday.

The first motion was made and was heard by the court, and it was made by Pa- the attorney for Patrick Clancy, who is Lindsay's ex-husband and the father of the children who died.

They, the motion by Patrick's attorney was to keep certain items of evidence out of the eye of the public so that they wanted the 911 call, the autopsy photos, crime scene photos, personal photos, and clothing of the children to be not released to the public.

So it would not prevent the jury from seeing them or the people in the courtroom from seeing them.

It would be that their use would be limited in the trial to simply prevent the media and public from accessing these items, and his attorney did cite some cases.

The pr- prosecutor for the Commonwealth, whose name is Jennifer Sprague, is the lead prosecutor, for some reason is really opposed to this it seems like, right?

Yes.

It was-

[clears throat]

So my impression of this was it was just kind of heartbreak- breaking to hear, uh, the attorney for Patrick Clancy, you know, cited some case law from previous, uh, cases around when it do- when things being presented in involving media, like, provides undue harm to victims or family members of victims.

Uh, and Patrick Clancy was just really requesting a degree of privacy for his children, his...

I mean, I ca- like, his, uh, children who died so horrifically, uh, for his own moment of horror, and, like, the, uh, 911 call, um, really just asked for some dignity to be left there around not letting it be seen and viewed and potentially commodified by the media, and I think that was a, within a completely reasonable level of request.

And the prosecutor didn't feel that way, and it just, it feels like it's, um-

She-

I was shocked by the la- lack of level of humanity there.

She seemed really flippant about it almost.

Like-

Uh, yeah

...

so she said-

Oh my gosh

... she was like, "The 911 call is public record, but I would defer to the court," which is like, okay-