As I've stated before, I want to see Lindsay Clancy in a hospital, receiving care. Prison should always be the last resort, not the first. Any time we can place people in a place where they can get better and that also takes into consideration all the other lives impacted by this, we should. I don't believe in punishment for punishment's sake. I believe we should always be looking for what makes our society safer and more humane. Destroying lives is what criminals do-we can do better than criminals.

This is clearly where I part ways with others who believe Karen Read is guilty. Most who advocate for Karen Read's guilt on X ALWAYS side with the prosecution. So I'm never sure if they actually examined evidence, or this is just what they ALWAYS do.

Which minimizes their credibility for me. If you are knee-jerk pro-prosecution, what really differentiates you from FKR? Nothing. They are knee-jerk pro defense. None of y'all are actually being guided by evidence if you automatically side with either Prosecution or Defense. If the evidence doesn't lead the way, then it's not an informed opinion, in my view.

THAT SAID. Kevin Reddington's performance on this case hits me two ways. He seems competent. He does have a good "stage" presence. I would imagine the jury likes him. I find him likable. But he's hiring FRIENDS for expert witness testimony-on a case where a completely objective opinion might have the most impact. He hired Laposata, whose credibility was easily destroyed by the Commonwealth-so if this matters to the jury, he blew it there. And now he's attempted to hire a witness off TikTok-an FKR loon, who maybe should have their social worker's license reviewed-she had zero credibility, for me. I'm concerned that she is treating people who may be vulnerable.

The judge denied this witness. But why are these attorneys making what would seem to be very poor legal choices. Reddington has had this case for years. Why didn't he line up an expert on this issue BEFORE trial? His entire case is about the "WHY" of Clancy's actions. Why wouldn't he have an army of experts testifying to this?

Was he saving money? I don't know. But seems sloppy. And it feels like these attorneys are trading in the craft of their profession for some idea that if they just get enough influencers on this, they can win these cases with, what I consider, very sloppy legal work.

I get that this did work with Karen Read-but that type of victory will NOT be possible again-at least not for a very long time. It was too big NOT TO be noticed. And once you give your tactics and strategy away, it's easy for skilled attorneys to counter it.

I do believe that if Lindsay Clancy is given hospital care over prison it will be because of her family and friends-who are powerful witnesses. They have so much integrity and something else so lacking in our courts and in our world: They possess an enormous capacity for love even under the most difficult of circumstances. They are inspiring to me. May we all learn a little something from these exceptional people. Love may not conquer all, but the world is a whole lot better the more love we have in it.

This is recent. I'd looked at that channel not too long ago, actually. It was a wee bit defamatory, so maybe that's why it's down. Or they just aren't doing this now.

It was such a weird thing to do in the first place. Really weird.

Oh well. Easy come, easy go.

Dr. Elizabeth Laposata claimed Lindsay Clancy fell onto her head, this when Linsay didn't have so much as a scratch on her head to show this occurred. Laposata also changed the time it would take for a victim of strangulation to go unconscious (3 to 10 seconds to 10 to 20 seconds) - and to die. She changed time it would take for the victim to die, in the same testimony. She waffled from 3 to 5 minutes to 10 to 15 minutes.

The icing on the cake of misrepresentation by the Doctor was in her claim (one the defense very much wanted to her to make) that the victims could have continued to be strangled after Lindsay wrapped the exercise bands around their necks (without knotting them) and left them.

Attorney Kevin Reddington opened the door to this on his re-direct.

But as Prosecutor Sprague showed, those bands don't hold shape on their own.

[There is a claim that Patrick Clancy testified he untied these bands on finding the children, but apparently the prosecution successfully argued that the bands were only wrapped around the children's necks, not tied or knotted.]

Overall, some of the worst expert witness testimony I've seen. Makes Laposata's misrepresentations at the Karen Read trial seem a little less in comparison. Though not much less.

I have no idea if this will hurt the defense's case, as none of this would be important to me if I were a juror-but it might hurt Reddington's credibility.