Lindsay Clancy Hires Karen Read Attorney to Fight Murder Charges on Double Jeopardy Grounds

An attorney who fought to have murder charges against Karen Read dismissed has been tapped to do the same for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three children.

Martin Weinberg was added as a “Limited Appearance Counsel” for Clancy in Plymouth Superior Court in a new filing, according to a report from CT Insider published on Wednesday, September 16. In a statement to the outlet, Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, explained the decision to add Weinberg to the team.

“I’ve asked Marty to handle the double jeopardy motion to dismiss and the constitutional issues in this case,” said Reddington. “He will lead any appeal that follows. He is one of the finest constitutional lawyers in the country, and Lindsay deserves nothing less.”

Clancy, 36, pleaded not guilty to the 2023 murders of her three kids — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — whom she shared with ex-husband Patrick Clancy. Her legal team argued during the high-profile trial that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she fatally strangled the children. Prosecutors, meanwhile, felt she knew right from wrong at the time of the murders.

Jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict and, on September 4, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial.

A hearing for the case has been set for September 29, with Reddington revealing during a September 9 appearance on CBS Mornings that he plans to file a motion to dismiss based on double jeopardy at that time.

Reddington also filed a motion on September 10 asking for an acquittal. In the filing, according to the New York Post, the attorney wrote that “no rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when the Commonwealth’s own proof established that she did.”

This is all familiar territory for Weinberg, who, per CBS News, previously argued for some of the charges against Read to be thrown out before her own retrial on the grounds of double jeopardy.

Read was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, but her first trial ended in a mistrial. The defense later claimed the jury wanted to acquit Read of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, arguing those charges should be dropped.

Weinberg wasn’t successful with his double jeopardy argument, though Read was later found not guilty of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death. She was, however, found guilty of operating a vehicle under the influence.