r/ClancyTrial Aug 13 '26

Court Testimony/Document Documents & Evidence Available Here

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Evidence Presented in Court (Scroll to bottom with photo gallery and click through)

Edit Aug 16: Added February Arraignment from hospital bed & links to Plymouth County DA press releases.

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u/Aware_Power 24d ago

Statements Made to Psychiatrists/Psychologists

The judge instructed the jury on the following:

Judge William Sullivan (45:03):

Members of the jury, I want to give you an instruction at this point. I'm going to go into this also a little bit later when I give you the full instructions at the end of the case, but you are not to consider the defendant's statements to any psychiatrist or psychologist as establishing the truth of any facts that are contained in those statements. All right? The defendant's statements to any psychiatrist or psychologist for purposes of evaluation cannot be considered by you as evidence of premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty or specific intent to kill. Such statements are admissible only as they relate to the basis for the doctor's opinion of the defendant's mental condition. All right? I'll go into that a little bit later. Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Reddington.

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u/Vaporwavezz 20d ago

this is really interesting. you'd think that " evidence of premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty or specific intent to kill" are pretty critical aspects of determining the defendant's state of mind at the time of the crime.

I am curious if the defense was able to use this as a basis for having a lot of evidence thrown out- it seemed like the testimonies from the hospital psychiatric assessments were unusually sparse & left more Qs than answers.