Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Crosses Psych Nurse Rebecca Jollotta About Prescriptions & Care

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington began his cross-examination of Rebecca Jollotta today by questioning her about her meetings with Lindsay Clancy and her knowledge of Clancy's other meetings with psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts. Jollotta is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who prescribed medication to Clancy in the months before she killed her three young children on Jan. 24, 2023. Her testimony in Clancy's murder trial today (Tuesday, August 11, day 11) covered the medication she prescribed Clancy and their interactions November 2022 between and January 2023. Tufts also prescribed Clancy medication. 02:08 "How many times did Lindsay meet with you?" Three times 03:09 "You would agree with me that young woman came to you people for help, right?" "Yes." "Okay, and she was very, very forthright. In other words, if you wanted her to sign a HIPAA form. She'd sign it, right?" "Right." "And she would answer your questions to your perspective in an honest fashion." "Yes." 04:33 "Would it surprise you if I told you that she saw Dr. Tufts 14 times in the time frame of October or the end of September, October, November, December, and then January-four months?" "Yes." "And that's 14 times plus the three that she saw you. Is that right?" "Yes." "So that's 17 times that this young lady had access to healthcare providers for her mental health issues, correct?" "Correct." 10:27 "On November 30th of 22, you wrote a script for Quetapine, 30 count. Is that right?" "Yes." "And what is quetiapine?" "Seroquel." 12:04 "And and why did you write the script on November 30 for quetiapine, 25 milligrams, and then about a week later increase it to 100 milligrams?" "On November 30, I had anticipated utilizing it over a four-week course of treatment for sleep and anxiety, but her clinical symptoms presentations changed, and I we opted to use it for mood stabilization." 14:40 "you continued to treat her, and on January 13th, you prescribed two milligrams of diazepam, seven count, right? That would be on January 13th?" "I did not prescribe that on January 13" "All right. If I suggest to you that Rebecca Jollotta has a script for January 13th of diazepam, that doesn't refresh your memory?" "Would it would it have been a script that I had sent previously that hadn't been filled at the original date?" 21:33 "Did you know that in fact they wouldn't accept her into the postpartum program because of their concern that she had been overmedicated by drugs, and they wanted to find out?" "I can't speak to that." "Did you know that she was diagnosed as diagnosis depression due to adverse drug effects." 23:48 "And at no time did it occur to you that Lindsay was doctor shopping or trying to get drugs. She was trying to basically get off drugs, right?" "Correct." "I cannot speak to that." 22:29 "I never received a call from Women and Infants." "So this medical record from women and infants saying that they called Rebecca Jollotta and never got a call back. Your memory is that they never called you?" "They never called me. I absolutely would have called them back." 33:44 "So when you saw her on November 29th, you diagnosed that she had postpartum anxiety, right? Adjustment insomnia, right?" "Correct." 37:54 "So one of the things with the mania that you that you refer to and that you talk about is excessive activity. Is that it? Excessive cleaning sometimes, right?" "Sometimes." "Excessive exercise?" "Sometimes." "Did you know that after she had Callan, that within a matter of a couple of weeks, that she that she ran a 5K?" "No, I did not know that." 38:31 "Is that something that would be important to know? I mean, as far as whether or not a person is in that manic stage where it's post delivery, and that's a significant artifact, if you will, of exercising, right?" "It would have been something I would have considered." 46:22 "what does postpartum depression mean, and what is its effect on a patient?" "Postpartum depression is like depression at any time during a patient's life. However, there are some unique considerations. It Typically occurs in the first three months after a person has a baby, but it can happen at any point in the first year..." 50:59 "Did you ever, if you recall, with all of the symptomology and deterioration going by week after week, say to her, "I really think that we should get together in person"?" "Yes. So we met in person on the sixth, and our plan had been to meet in person on the 13th." 55:30 "She called Aspire Crisis Report support not once but twice, right? If you know." "I'm aware of that one time she called." 59:37 "There was a period of time that she indicated that she wanted to get off the medication and get off the drugs, and you indicated, as you told us, that you were on vacation that week, right?" "Yes." "You basically told her to tough it out and just hit me up when when I come back from vacation, right?" "No."