林赛·克兰西(Lindsay Clancy)是美国一名被指控杀害自己三个孩子的妇女。自本月早些时候她的谋杀案审判失败后,她首次出庭。
Lindsay Clancy, the US woman accused of murdering her three children, has appeared in court for the first time since her murder trial fell apart earlier this month.
她的辩护团队周二主张法官应驳回此案,但检方表示他们已经“完成了证明她有罪的举证责任”。
Her defence team on Tuesday argued the judge should dismiss her case but prosecutors said the state had "met its burden" in proving her guilt.
36岁的克兰西并不否认自己在2023年杀害了自己的三个孩子,但其辩护团队认为她当时患有严重的产后精神病。检方则认为这些杀人行为是蓄意的。
Clancy, 36, does not deny killing her three children in 2023, but her defence team argues she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time. Prosecutors say the killings were intentional.
目前尚不清楚她是否会被重新审判。威廉·沙利文(William Sullivan)法官表示,关于是否驳回此案的请求将在11月2日的听证会上进行讨论。
It is still not clear if she will face a retrial. The request to dismiss the case is among those that will be discussed at a hearing on 2 November, Judge William Sullivan said.
周二讨论的动议之一来自克兰西的律师凯文·雷丁顿(Kevin Reddington),他请求根据马萨诸塞州的相关法律规则(即“规则25”)认定她无罪——该规则规定如果检方未能有效陈述案情,被告应被宣告无罪。
One of the motions addressed on Tuesday was from Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who asked for her to be found not guilty under Rule 25 - a Massachusetts motion that states a defendant should be found not guilty if prosecutors do not argue their case effectively.
雷丁顿还提出了新的辩护观点,认为没有足够的证据能够证明克兰西确实杀害了自己的孩子。他说:“整个案件都建立在猜测的基础上。”
Reddington also brought a new defence forward arguing there was not enough evidence to prove Clancy killed her children. "This entire case is based on speculation," he said.
这与辩护律师在审判期间的立场截然不同;当时辩护律师主要强调克兰西的心理健康状况,并呼吁陪审团因此认定她不负刑事责任。
It was a change of argument from the defence lawyer, who during the trial focused on Clancy's mental health - urging the jury to find her not criminally responsible because of it.
检察官莎南·白金汉(Shanan Buckingham)称雷丁顿的论点“荒谬至极”,并指出检方在审判过程中提供了大量证据,证明克兰西在作案时精神状态正常。她说:“检方已经完成了举证责任。”
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called Reddington's argument "laughable". She said state prosecutors had presented numerous pieces of evidence showing Clancy was in a healthy mental state at the time of the murders during the trial. "The Commonwealth met its burden," Buckingham said.
白金汉认为,克兰西在马萨诸塞州的家中杀害了自己的三个孩子(5岁的科拉、3岁的道森以及8个月大的卡兰)时,是完全清楚自己行为的。
She argued Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months, in their Massachusetts home.
当雷丁顿和白金汉都拒绝同意沙利文法官关于“在听证会前确定重新审判日期”的建议时,沙利文法官表示:“我希望尽快解决这件事。”他要求双方为在11月的听证会上讨论可能的审判日期做好准备。雷丁顿表示,如果案件被重审,他至少要到6月才能接受审判。
Judge Sullivan pushed back when both Reddington and Buckingham refused to agree to his suggestion that they might agree to a possible retrial date now ahead of the hearing, saying he wanted to "get this thing moving". He asked both sides to be prepared to discuss possible trial dates at the November hearing. Reddington said he would be unable to go to trial until at least June if the case is retried.
地方法官蒂莫西·克鲁兹在庭审结束后对记者们表示,检方尚未决定是否会对克兰西提起谋杀指控的重审。
District Attorney Timothy Cruz told reporters outside after court that prosecutors have not yet decided if they are going to retry Clancy on murder charges.
“我们正在履行应尽的职责,并会继续这样做,”他说,“我们会为孩子们尽我们所能。这才是这个案件的真正意义所在。”
"We're doing our due diligence, we're going to continue doing that," he said. "We're going to do what we can for the children. That's what this case is about."
本月早些时候,经过一周的审议,马萨诸塞州的一个陪审团因一名陪审员的反对意见而无法达成裁决,因此案件于9月4日被宣布无效(即审判失败)。
Following a week of deliberations earlier this month, a Massachusetts jury told Sullivan they could not reach a verdict because of a lone holdout juror and a mistrial was declared on 4 September.