On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
forensic psychiatrist testifying for the defense
4 things Phillip Resnick said, verbatim, from August 23, 2026 to September 5, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.
Also appeared as: Dr. Phillip Resnick
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“was clearly psychotic on that day,”
Reason Magazine A judge declares a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case after her lawyer spends the final hour appealing to the state's highest court to remove one juror ›
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“had the capacity to know right from wrong.”
psychosis drove Clancy to kill.
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“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings.”
on the defense's claim Lindsay Clancy had no control during her psychotic episode
Reason Magazine The Lindsay Clancy Trial Was Never Going To Answer the Question Everyone Was Asking ›
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“In her mind, she believed that she would be doing her children a favour by having them go to heaven with her rather than remain on earth without her doing the mothering,”
on the psychiatrist explaining the hallucination that drove a mother to kill her children
BBC News Mother suffering 'command hallucination' when she killed children, court hears ›
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“My opinion is that Ms Clancy was, due to her mental disease, unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law on the day that she took the lives of her children,”
on Lindsay Clancy's insanity defense in the killing of her three children
BBC News A Massachusetts jury will decide whether postpartum psychosis excuses Lindsay Clancy, who strangled her three children, as hundreds of women rally outside the courthouse in pink ›
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