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Carol Erskine August 19, 2025

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The Massachusetts mental health system is on trial right now through Kevin Reddington’s masterful cross-examination of Dr. Tufts—and IT’S ABOUT TIME.

For years, I lived with the frustration of that system every day as I sat in my closed courtroom. I watched children and adults

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A lot is being made of the testimony that Lindsay Clancy did not have a specific suicide “plan.” That is NOT the Massachusetts legal standard. It’s not in the statute or the DMH regulations. G.L. c. 123, §1 does not require a formulated suicide plan. Neither the statute nor the

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