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2:00 Hippocratic Oath
4:00 Thalidomide
8:00 Good relationship with her husband
9:00 Medea
10:00 Female demonstrators outside court before the trial is over
12:00 Jennifer Tufts psychiatrist ambiguous notes
17:00 Murder a mortal sin according to Catholicism
AI Overview
The judge struck out the question about a "mortal sin" because injecting religious doctrine and beliefs into a secular legal proceeding is considered highly inappropriate and improper.Why It Was StrickenInappropriate Focus: The court determined that introducing religious concepts like Catholic "mortal sins" had no valid place in deciding criminal responsibility under Massachusetts law.Prejudicial Impact: Legal experts and the judge viewed tying a defendant's or witness's specific religious tenets to a murder charge as an improper attempt to appeal to emotion or bias rather than evaluating factual and legal sanity.Immediate Intervention: When the prosecutor asked Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law about her Catholic faith and mortal sins, the defense immediately objected. Judge William Sullivan called an immediate sidebar and instructed the jury to entirely disregard the question and response.
21:00 Following doctors' orders
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