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Aug 8, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
Show Notes: Our second recap of week one of the Lindsay Clancy trial. Trigger warnings noted at the beginning of the episode. Please check out Part 1 for the background of this case Connect with…
So on the 4th, which was Tuesday, I believe, the Commonwealth finally agreed to some stipulations that the defense was offering.
I was wondering if they're sensing the jury getting frustrated with all the chain of custody witnesses because the defense attorney was making a point to be like, yes, this has already been stipulated to every time they were having these witnesses.
So that was nice.
It kind of moved things along a little faster.
And then they had, okay, so I'm just going to go through these really quick because I don't think that they made a big dent for me one way or the other.
It was kind of just confirming what we already knew.
So there was a general surgeon from South Shore Hospital who was the other treating physician at the initial emergency room that Lindsay went to.
She came on to testify about bloodstain collection.
an officer who collected fingerprints and basically got nothing of note.
Lab tech for toxicology, benzos positive, which is to be expected.
That's what she was prescribed.
And then a blood splatter witness came in and the Commonwealth Department seem to be trying to say that based on the blood where the blood was on the window pain that she was hanging from the window and like dropped or the as the defense keeps saying spider-man down so there's no
prosecution
i'm sorry the proxy no the defense keeps saying oh do they think she's spider-man down like he's using it against us
like as a joke or not a joke but like making light exactly okay
I thought there was nothing really notable to report.
I did see someone on social media comparing this to the first Karen retrial.
And I thought that was really a good observation because in the first Karen retrial, they spent like weeks putting on witnesses, background witnesses that meant nothing.
Like, where were you sitting at the bar? And where is this person sitting at the bar? I mean, just and it was almost like to exhaust everyone into not paying attention to the real stuff.
And so I was kind of wondering, like, is that a strategy of this DA's office? I
don't know.
So then court was off on the 5th, right? And then the 6th, there was a physician's assistant from Brigham and Women's Hospital Trauma Department.
He reported that he saw Lindsay for a laceration repair on her wrist.
He said that the neck wound was superficial, and so that did not need repair.
So on the 4th, which was Tuesday, I believe, the Commonwealth finally agreed to some stipulations that the defense was offering.
I was wondering if they're sensing the jury getting frustrated with all the chain of custody witnesses because the defense attorney was making a point to be like, yes, this has already been stipulated to every time they were having these witnesses.
So that was nice.
It kind of moved things along a little faster.
And then they had, okay, so I'm just going to go through these really quick because I don't think that they made a big dent for me one way or the other.
It was kind of just confirming what we already knew.
So there was a general surgeon from South Shore Hospital who was the other treating physician at the initial emergency room that Lindsay went to.
She came on to testify about bloodstain collection.
an officer who collected fingerprints and basically got nothing of note.
Lab tech for toxicology, benzos positive, which is to be expected.
That's what she was prescribed.
And then a blood splatter witness came in and the Commonwealth Department seem to be trying to say that based on the blood where the blood was on the window pain that she was hanging from the window and like dropped or the as the defense keeps saying spider-man down so there's no
prosecution
i'm sorry the proxy no the defense keeps saying oh do they think she's spider-man down like he's using it against us
like as a joke or not a joke but like making light exactly okay
I thought there was nothing really notable to report.
I did see someone on social media comparing this to the first Karen retrial.
And I thought that was really a good observation because in the first Karen retrial, they spent like weeks putting on witnesses, background witnesses that meant nothing.
Like, where were you sitting at the bar? And where is this person sitting at the bar? I mean, just and it was almost like to exhaust everyone into not paying attention to the real stuff.
And so I was kind of wondering, like, is that a strategy of this DA's office? I
don't know.
So then court was off on the 5th, right? And then the 6th, there was a physician's assistant from Brigham and Women's Hospital Trauma Department.
He reported that he saw Lindsay for a laceration repair on her wrist.
He said that the neck wound was superficial, and so that did not need repair.
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