Get to know Kevin Reddington, the longtime attorney defending Lindsay Clancy

Kevin Reddington says the Lindsay Clancy case may be the most memorable and difficult of his 50-year career.

The defense attorney is representing the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother charged with murder in the deaths of her three children. He’s arguing that she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

“Everybody knew that Lindsay Clancy was just an incredible wife, mother, friend, and here she is now. Tragic,” Reddington said.

One of the top attorneys in the state, Reddington decided to become a lawyer in high school and graduated from Suffolk University Law School.

He’s never been a prosecutor, and he said he’s never had the desire to become one.

“As Jerry Spence said, ‘I never sinned.’ Nope. Nope. I don’t have it in me to ever try to put somebody in jail,” Reddington said.

The walls of his Brockton office are lined with clippings of his cases and clients.

In 1989, Therese Rogers was acquitted of killing her boyfriend — one of the first successful battered woman syndrome defenses.

He’s represented defendants like Michael “Mucko” McDermott, who gunned down seven of his coworkers in 2000, and James “Whitey” Bulger’s partner, Catherine Grieg.

In 1998, Reddington represented Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn as he was acquitted of OUI. He says the case helped make his career, after enduring ribbing from friends like attorney J.W. Carney.

“I said, ‘Jay, it’s Mo Vaughn. If I win, everybody’s going to go, ‘Who’s going to convict Mo Vaughn?’” he recalled. “If I lose, I’m the bum that lost Mo Vaughn’s case.”

Despite his busy courtroom demands, Reddington doesn’t employ a team of attorneys. It’s just him and his colleague of 38 years, Laura Mather.

Reddington is 75 with four adult children. Two of them are in the family business. He loves riding his Harley Davidson. He and his wife, Debbie, have to travel to the motorcycle rally in Sturgis.

He’s in no rush to retire.

“Not going to work at Walmart. I don’t want to work at Lowe’s,” Reddington said. “I like what I’m doing. I enjoy what I’m doing.”