Clancy, who killed her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at their Massachusetts home in January 2023, is charged with first-degree murder.
\n\nSprague ended her closing argument by describing the children on the basement floor after Clancy killed them.
\n\n"She left them discarded on the basement floor, like broken toys, because she was done playing the game," Sprague told the jury. "You know, to a moral certainty, she is guilty."
\n\nSprague is taking the time to detail exactly how Clancy killed her kids, and the fear they must have felt in the time they were being strangled.
\n\n"Just think of that — the being strangled and the pain and the confusion that they're going through," Sprague said. "Their mom is the one that's hurting them. Their mom is the one that's killing them."
\n\nAnd that, added Sprague, is "extreme atrocity and cruelty" — the burden the prosecution must prove for a first-degree murder conviction.
\n\nSprague picked up the final quarter laid out by Reddington, who accused the prosecution of implying that Clancy was instructed to lie about hearing voices.
\n\n"We've never said that he told the defendant what to say," Sprague told the…
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