Lindsay Clancy and her legal team returned to court on Tuesday, arguing that the state of Massachusetts failed to prove she killed her children — a claim that prosecutors called “laughable.”
\n\nThis marks the first hearing since Clancy’s triple murder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month.
\n\nThe hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, which began just before 10 a.m., included a number of motions filed since the trial concluded.
\n\nJudge William Sullivan immediately punted some of those motions to a later date, noting that he, and some parties, were not ready for them to be argued. One of those motions is defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s effort to dismiss Clancy’s case.
\n\nSullivan heard arguments as a part of that motion Tuesday, but pushed his decision on those arguments, as well as those relating to other motions, until Nov. 2.
\n\nThe judge also declined to set a new trial date, with both Reddington and prosecutors agreeing that with so much still to decide, it could be premature to do so.
\n\nReddington on Tuesday offered arguments on Massachusetts’ Rule 25, which states that if prosecutors do not argue their case effectively, the defendant should be found not guilty.
\n\nHe first lamented that…
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