Day 12 - August 12, 2026

Dan Lawler testified about Lindsay Clancy's hospital condition, evidence collection and the residential search. The court admitted clothing as Exhibits 223–225. Lawler also described prescription-pill inventories and limits in his recollection of electronic devices. After questioning outside the jury's presence, cross-examination resumed on a theory that a hospital visitor had prompted Clancy to report hearing voices. Lawler acknowledged discussing that theory with Trooper McKelligan and agreed with defense counsel's characterization that it lacked an investigative basis and was McKelligan's speculation. He had not heard the conversation in the room and denied that the trooper discussion affected his testimony. Counselor Latiesha Dukes described four December appointments involving anxiety, sleep difficulties, low mood, numbness and passive suicidal thoughts without a reported plan. She initially diagnosed postpartum anxiety and recommended intensive outpatient or partial hospitalization services. She observed no psychosis, mania, delusions or paranoia during her contacts. Dukes described improvement by December 19 but acknowledged that low mood and numbness persisted. She had not reviewed other providers' records, did not manage medication and could not explain why Women and Infants did not accept Clancy. Behavioral-health record excerpts were later admitted by agreement as Exhibit 226. Cameron Daley described his January 25 hospital watch, reporting only medical visitors during his shift. Nicole Bradley authenticated sheriff's hospital-watch logs covering January 25 through February 3, admitted as Exhibit 227. Medical examiner Renee Stonebridge described eye hemorrhages in Cora and Dawson and oxygen-deprivation injuries to Callan's brain. She qualified Cora's hemorrhages as general findings consistent with something asphyxial when considered with the autopsy findings. Her six-to-eight-minute estimate for brain tissue beginning to die without oxygen was general, not a measured interval for any child. Judge Sullivan then instructed jurors to assess the evidence without sympathy, anger, passion or prejudice. Medical examiner Barbara Olson described Cora's and Dawson's autopsy findings, identifying Cora's cause of death as asphyxia by strangulation and Dawson's as asphyxia. Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague sought to challenge Olson's answer about recovery after unconsciousness through an alleged prior inconsistent statement. Olson declined to give a fixed case-specific timeline. The court admitted displayed autopsy photographs as Exhibits 228 and 229 over defense objection. The defense declined cross-examination of both medical examiners.