Full closing arguments from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

[clears throat] Jurors, about five weeks ago that we met like this, and I indicated to you that thank you for incredible service.

That, all of us mean that sincerely.

You took, literally, more than a month out of your lives and sat here attentively.

Incredible.

Through some of the toughest, most gut-wrenching things that any person can be subjected to.

And I think I indicated that, sadly, jurors carry this trauma with them for years.

And the service that you have performed, I have never seen before.

You have listened to evidence.

You have been fair.

You have been objective.

You've listened to the judge's instructions, and you've carried them into your heart consistent with your oath, which is a very, very solemn oath passed between government and Lindsay, who has placed herself on her country, which country you are, as a jury of her peers.

When you consider what's at stake here in the sense of what we've been dealing with, Clara, Dawson, Kelly.

She knows loss.

And that's why we think Clara, Dawson, Kelly, for a minute.

They are the victims of this case.

They are the victims of the horrible, horrific act that has been laid at your feet as jurors to decide whether or not Lindsay is guilty.

Beyond a reasonable doubt, as His Honor instructed you and will instruct you, what that means, that standard of proof that we as citizens in this country are so blessed to have, proof beyond a reasonable doubt before the government charges any citizen with a crime.

I don't care how many cops you have in here, how many DAs are sitting here, how many people are sitting in the front row, and they're all gonna sit there and be proud of this prosecution.

I told you in the opening statement that this is a prosecution that has ripped the soul out of this girl.

This is what they had.

This is their family.

How does this turn into this? How? Because of the damn medicine and the lousy medical care that she got.

You can troop as many paid experts as you want to come in here and tell the jury, "Oh, well, she didn't say that she heard voices inside her head.

She said she heard voices from outside her head.

She said she was making Chicken McNuggets [audio cuts out] for, she wasn't making Chicken McNuggets." She said something as I, as I think and I muse, and I try real hard to tell you, um, what my opinion is, that this woman was acting in her right mind when these children were killed.

[clears throat] Jurors, about five weeks ago that we met like this, and I indicated to you that thank you for incredible service.

That, all of us mean that sincerely.

You took, literally, more than a month out of your lives and sat here attentively.

Incredible.

Through some of the toughest, most gut-wrenching things that any person can be subjected to.

And I think I indicated that, sadly, jurors carry this trauma with them for years.

And the service that you have performed, I have never seen before.

You have listened to evidence.

You have been fair.

You have been objective.

You've listened to the judge's instructions, and you've carried them into your heart consistent with your oath, which is a very, very solemn oath passed between government and Lindsay, who has placed herself on her country, which country you are, as a jury of her peers.

When you consider what's at stake here in the sense of what we've been dealing with, Clara, Dawson, Kelly.

She knows loss.

And that's why we think Clara, Dawson, Kelly, for a minute.

They are the victims of this case.

They are the victims of the horrible, horrific act that has been laid at your feet as jurors to decide whether or not Lindsay is guilty.

Beyond a reasonable doubt, as His Honor instructed you and will instruct you, what that means, that standard of proof that we as citizens in this country are so blessed to have, proof beyond a reasonable doubt before the government charges any citizen with a crime.

I don't care how many cops you have in here, how many DAs are sitting here, how many people are sitting in the front row, and they're all gonna sit there and be proud of this prosecution.

I told you in the opening statement that this is a prosecution that has ripped the soul out of this girl.

This is what they had.

This is their family.

How does this turn into this? How? Because of the damn medicine and the lousy medical care that she got.

You can troop as many paid experts as you want to come in here and tell the jury, "Oh, well, she didn't say that she heard voices inside her head.

She said she heard voices from outside her head.

She said she was making Chicken McNuggets [audio cuts out] for, she wasn't making Chicken McNuggets." She said something as I, as I think and I muse, and I try real hard to tell you, um, what my opinion is, that this woman was acting in her right mind when these children were killed.