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What we know about Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington 35%
By Jane Miller50%
7/31/2026, 1:18:02 PM
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A week into the trial, attorney Kevin Reddington has already mounted a rigorous defense.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to first-degree murder charges.
She admits she killed her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and Callan, eight months — but maintains she was deeply in the throes of postpartum depression and psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.
Her trial has drawn national attention for its unfathomable details, but also for the questions it raises about postpartum care, mental health, and prosecutorial discretion.
A week into the trial, Reddington has already mounted a rigorous defense.
Here are some things to know about him:
<i><b>He has a history of working on similar cases. </b></i>
The 75-year-year-old criminal defense attorney is well-known for his successful defense of clients who claimed their crimes were driven by severe mental illness.
In a high profile 1989 case that earned him a spot in the prestigious <a href="https://www.actl.com/" target="_blank" rel="" title="https://www.actl.com/">American College of Trial Lawyers</a>, he successfully argued that defendant Therese Rogers, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the hands of her abusive boyfriend, was delusional when she fatally stabbed him<b> </b>in the eyes.
Nearly 10 years later, in his defense of Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn, he convinced a jury that Vaughan’s multiple failed sobriety tests<b> </b>after a car accident were the result of shock from the crash that flipped his truck combined with some off-season weight gain and a knee injury — not drunk driving.
In his 1997 defense of Richard Shuman, who was convicted of murdering two business associates, Reddington convinced Stoughton police to allow a Duxbury psychologist to assess Shuman on the night of his arrest.
This allowed him to stress the extent of Shuman’s depression in court, and encouraged the judge to send the defendant to Bridgewater State Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
These cases, amongst others, left Reddington well prepared to push for Clancy’s “insanity defense” in the trial that began this <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/metro/lindsay-clancy-trial-patrick-clancy-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="" title="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/metro/lindsay-clancy-trial-patrick-clancy-testimony/">Monday</a>.
<i><b>He quickly went to work. </b></i>
When taking on the Clancy case, he promptly obtained approval from a judge to have her examined by a forensic psychologist.
He also requested that the judge allow Clancy to await her trial outside of jail, from her parents’ house provided she wears a GPS monitor, at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital or the Worcester Recovery Center.
“Something humane,” he said.
His request was granted, and Clancy is currently being held at the public Tewksbury Hospital in Massachusetts.
<i><b>He has publicly opposed this prosecution. </b></i>
In response to the prosecution’s claim that this case is the result of capable and conscious actions of a “selfish” woman and not a referendum of the mental health system, Reddington said in court on Monday, “it sure as hell is.”
“She loved those children right up to the time of their death,” he said.
Despite admitting to killing her three children, Reddington argues that Clancy was an overmedicated mother suffering from severe postpartum psychosis, and thus is not criminally responsible.
Reddington’s fierce defense of clients who are accused of even the most unthinkable crimes comes from a profound ability to see the human behind every criminal act.
“It’s a combination of his preparation and his human touch,” former federal prosecutor Zachary R.
Hafer, who has faced Reddington on a number of cases, told the Globe in <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/04/metro/renowned-lawyer-defending-duxbury-mother-lindsay-clancy-has-history-tackling-crimes-driven-by-severe-mental-illness/" target="_blank" rel="" title="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/04/metro/renowned-lawyer-defending-duxbury-mother-lindsay-clancy-has-history-tackling-crimes-driven-by-severe-mental-illness/">2023</a>.
“He understands the human element and how it impacts cases, especially cases like this.”
The deft “touch” that Reddington pours into all of his cases is exactly what the Clancy case, “something this fraught,” needs, said Hafer.
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