Lindsay Clancy (Trial week 1/Part 2)

But so, okay, so on July the 30th, that's when we were getting a lot of first responder testimony.

So basically what they all sort of said, I didn't write down individual names or anything.

These were like police, paramedics, firefighters that had responded to the scene.

There

were quite a few of them that sort of testified to the same thing, that they got there, they went to Lindsay, and then the children were discovered in the house by Patrick during their time there, and that the scene became more chaotic, that they brought in more people, and that that's kind of the basic information that was given.

And then...

There were first responders that testified to the life-saving measures that they attempted with each of the children, which was very difficult testimony to hear.

But I wanted to, for our purposes, I wanted to focus more on what they had to say about Lindsay's injuries because we already started hearing the narrative that this wasn't a real suicide attempt, that this was sort of simple injuries.

And so I was curious to hear how they were going to talk about it.

One thing I wanted to say as well is the defense has made it clear that Lindsay disputes none of the facts of the case.

So really focusing, I believe, on the horrific nature of the crime scene that night, what the first responders witnessed, all of that.

She does not, none of that is being dismissed or argued by the defense, which I think is relevant to the amount of witnesses they have that are really just talking about facts that are not being disputed.

So some of the things that I just noted, I don't think we need to go through like testimony to discuss what they said.

But some of the things that I noted was that the Commonwealth was asking some of like the police officers, did her injuries appear to be life-threatening? Which it's very strange to me because number one, how would a non-medical professional know the nature of her injuries and whether or not they were life-threatening? And Two, we know they were life-threatening.

We already know that.

She coded.

They said it in openings.

So to say, oh no, her injuries weren't life-threatening, they were really focused on the, she had made cuts to her wrist and her neck after taking the overdose and before going out the window.

And they were really, really, really focused on those injuries being very superficial is what they kept saying.

kept reiterating that they weren't bleeding that they weren't you know that that wasn't their priority eventually the defense attorney kevin ruddington did ask one one of the first responders who was really focused i think he had stayed with lindsey until she was in the ambulance and they had asked him a lot of questions about her wounds and whether they were bleeding And I think he said she was wearing like the neck stabilizing brace.

So he couldn't see her neck injury, but that it wasn't bleeding because there's like little holes in the brace that you could see through and that her wrists weren't bleeding.

The defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked him things like, how does the cold weather affect the bleeding of wounds? And he did say, say, you know, that can slow bleeding because of how cold the temperature was.

She was in the snow when she had gone out the window and apparently that snowfall hadn't even been very recent.

It was just so cold that there was still snow on the ground.

And we heard today that she was hypothermic at 82 degrees.