Judge Orders 12 Jurors to Keep Deliberating in Lindsay Clancy 3-Child Murder Trial
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Updated · NBC Boston · Sep 1
Judge Orders 12 Jurors to Keep Deliberating in Lindsay Clancy 3-Child Murder Trial
3 articles · Updated · NBC Boston · Sep 1
Summary
About 18 hours into deliberations, the 12-member jury told a Massachusetts judge it could not reach a unanimous verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s trial over the 2023 killings of her three children.
Judge William Sullivan said the panel faced hundreds of hours of testimony and exhibits, but directed jurors to resume deliberating rather than declaring an impasse.
Clancy, 36, has admitted killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan; her lawyers say postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible, while prosecutors say she planned the killings and expected to die by suicide.
If the jurors report another deadlock, Sullivan could give a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction urging them to keep trying before any mistrial becomes possible.