Why Prosecutors Read Lindsay Clancy's Note Out Loud

Lindsay Clancy case update — the prosecution is building its first-degree murder case around a phone, a fifty-minute window, and one sentence she typed herself.

There is a reason Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague reads that note in open court instead of tucking it into an exhibit list. It lands. It is the difference between a case about a sick woman and a case about a woman who had been thinking about something for months, and the Commonwealth would very much like a jury to hear it that way.

Everything else in the prosecution file is sm...