The widespread consideration on the trial of Lindsay Clancy — which led to a mistrial Friday after seven days of deliberations — put an unlikely highlight on the three attorneys who led the practically six-week trial.
Clancy’s legal professional, Kevin Reddington, and the 2 prosecutors, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorneys Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham, have develop into family names for individuals who adopted the trial, each second of which was broadcast on-line and on TV from Plymouth Superior Court docket in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Clancy pleaded not responsible to 3 homicide expenses for the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and toddler son Callan on the household’s dwelling in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, on Jan. 24, 2023.
Defendant Lindsay Clancy seems on the jury after Choose William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Clancy’s homicide trial, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass.
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All through the trial, Reddington argued Clancy was affected by postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids and tried to take her personal life. Sprague and Buckingham argued that Clancy is criminally chargeable for her kids’s deaths.
All three legal professionals are scheduled to be in court docket on Sept. 29 to find out subsequent steps following the mistrial. On Friday, Plymouth County District Legal professional Timothy Cruz declined to announce a right away choice about retrying Clancy.
Here’s what to learn about Reddington, Sprague and Buckingham.
Kevin Reddington
Lawyer Kevin Reddington speaks to media after the decide declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s homicide trial at Plymouth County Superior Court docket, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass.
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Reddington is a prison protection legal professional in personal apply in Brockton, Massachusetts, a city round 37 miles south of Boston.
He attended Suffolk College Legislation College, and graduated in 1975, in line with a biography linked to on his web site.
Reddington’s checklist of purchasers is various, together with Catherine Greig, the longtime romantic accomplice of famed gangster Whitey Bulger, and others, in line with information articles linked to on his web site.
Lindsay Clancy and Kevin Reddington hearken to Choose Sullivan within the triple homicide trial of the Duxbury mom in Plymouth Superior Court docket, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, September 3, 2026.
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Reddington represented Clancy in court docket on his personal, sitting subsequent to her every day on the protection desk. He mentioned he was helped on the case by his son, Patrick Reddington, who can be an legal professional.
Kevin Reddington mentioned following the trial that he by no means anticipated the trial to obtain the eye it did, together with the eye he obtained particularly as Clancy’s legal professional.
“I figured it might have some reference to individuals coping with postpartum despair, postpartum psychosis, and the medical and psychiatric care. I did not notice it might be like this,” Reddington mentioned, pointing to the swarm of media and onlookers surrounding him.
Jennifer Sprague
Assistant DA Jennifer Sprague makes her closing arguments for the jury asking them to seek out Clancy responsible throughout Clancy’s homicide trial at Plymouth Superior Court docket in Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 27, 2026.
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Sprague has labored on the Plymouth County District Legal professional’s workplace since 2003, in line with her LinkedIn web page.
In her present function, Second Assistant District Legal professional, Sprague supervises all homicides that happen in Plymouth County in addition to all firearm and narcotics instances, in line with her profile.
All through her profession, she has tried 28 murder trials and over 40 Superior Court docket instances and “a whole lot” of district court docket instances, her profile states.
She graduated from New England Legislation Boston in 2003, in line with her LinkedIn web page.
Sprague delivered the closing arguments within the Clancy trial.
Shanan Buckingham
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, on the Lindsay Clancy homicide Trial in Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 11, 2026.
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Buckingham leads the Household Safety Unit on the Plymouth County District Legal professional’s workplace, the place she was labored since 2011, according to her LinkedIn web page.
Previous to becoming a member of the DA’s workplace, Buckingham spent three months as a clerk at a regulation agency specializing in “civil rights litigation and prison protection,” her profile states.
Buckingham graduated from Northeastern College College of Legislation in 2011, in line with her LinkedIn web page.
Following the trial, Cruz, the Plymouth County DA, thanked his prosecutors for his or her work on the case and mentioned they’d been threatened on social media all through.
“The way in which they had been vilified and portrayed on social media is disgusting to me,” he mentioned. “Threats to them and their households, their addresses being posted, it is unlucky that in at the moment’s society professionals are positioned in danger for merely doing their jobs… It’s the details that in the end resolve the way you act, not the opinions of observers a number of steps faraway from our court docket proceedings.”
Watch a particular version of “20/20,” “The Trial of Lindsay Clancy,” airing Friday, Sept. 4, at 9/8c on ABC, streaming the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.
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