Lindsay Clancy lawyer Kevin Reddington creates courtroom spectacles

Reddington first made national headlines in 1989, when he won freedom for Therese Rogers, a woman accused of killing her boyfriend after stabbing his eyes out, the Cape Cod Times reported. (She did so with a butcher’s knife, the court would learn, while the boyfriend slept.)

Reddington threw a pair of ninja stars across the courtroom to demonstrate their lethality. The scars in the wall remained decades later.

He had employed an insanity defence, the Times noted, telling the jury Rogers had suffered years of abuse from her boyfriend and developed Battered Woman Syndrome that resulted in a temporary bout of insanity when she killed him.

His successful use of that insanity argument was the first of its kind, according to the New York Times.

He relied on a similar argument in another case in 2007, when another woman was accused of killing her husband with a single gunshot to the chest, according to local news outlet The Enterprise.

Reddington presented such strong evidence that the woman had been abused that a grand jury failed to even return an indictment against her. In the US, such panels are convened by prosecutors to hear evidence to determine if there is enough to warrant criminal charges.