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Carol Erskine August 19, 2025

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As I said last week, the prosecutor’s “mortal sin” question was a blatant violation of Mass. G. Evid. § 610. Now a Commonwealth’s expert has again injected Clancy’s Catholicism into the case.

The Commonwealth appears to be substituting religious condemnation for Massachusetts’

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As the emotionally charged and legally complex Clancy case comes to a close this week, I suspect it has been one of the most difficult cases Judge Sullivan has ever presided over—as it would be for any judge.

Through unprecedented national attention, he has maintained his

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