The View Nukes Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer’s Sudden Defense Pivot: ‘My Jaw Was on the Floor’

The hosts of The View are not buying into Lindsay Clancy’s defense team’s latest strategy questioning whether she even murdered her three children.

On Wednesday’s The View, the hosts tried wrapping their heads around the latest arguments being made by Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington, who claimed there was a lack of evidence that Clancy murdered her children in a hearing this week.

That hearing followed the judge in the case admitting he needed to call a mistrial earlier this month after the jury became deadlocked with just one holdout.

At the latest hearing, Reddington asked, “Where is is the evidence she did this?”

Reddington argued that prosecutors have not presented enough evidence to charge Clancy, throwing many for a loop since the previous argument had been that Clancy was behind the killings of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, and was driven by a psychotic break brought on by medication, a misdiagnosis, and postpartum depression.

Clancy attempted to commit suicide after the children were murdered, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. In a civil medical malpractice suit, there is reference to Clancy living with the “grief of waking up every day knowing she killed her children,” causing more confusion about the latest defense.

Reddington also previously dismissed alternative theories about the murders involving Clancy’s husband.

The majority of the hosts of The View nuked Reddington’s defense pivot.

“My jaw was on the floor because the defense’s entire argument hinged on she had postpartum psychosis. She wasn’t responsible because of insanity but did this crime and he’s like, we don’t even know if she did it,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said.

Guest host Debbie Matenopoulos became emotional speaking about the case and the possibility that Clancy could not spend any time confined.

“I think she’s not saying sorry because that’s admitting admission because her husband said she’s never even said sorry. SaI’m with you about that and I know, Sunny, with the insanity defense but as a mom and this might be controversial I just — I can’t watch that and think that someone is not going to be punished for their actions, whether the person was insane or not,” she said.

“I didn’t talk to anyone who doesn’t believe she shouldn’t be held accountable. It’s the difference in what that looks like,” Sara Haines added.

She argued the lawyer is “moving the goalpost a bit.”

Sunny Hostin, a lawyer, laid into Reddington.

“I don’t understand how you can spend an entire trial arguing that she did it but she is not criminally responsible because she was suffering from a psychotic episode and postpartum psychosis and then turn around in front of the very same judge and say there’s no evidence she did it. I think that is a terrible take,” she said.

“I’m not convinced he’s not on TikTok,” Haines added, arguing Reddington was “regurgitating” points made in Lindsay Clancy TikTok videos.

“It feels very conspiracy theory and not grounded in the law and I don’t love this new position,” Hostin added.

Watch above via ABC.

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