Lindsay Clancy Trial: Judge Declares Mistrial After Jury Deadlocks for Seven Days
Seven days. Thirty-nine hours. Twelve people who could not agree on what happened inside a house on Summer Street — and in the end, that’s the verdict. There isn’t one.
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, stood trial for the January 24, 2023 killings of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — inside the family’s home on Summer Street. Prosecutors allege she strangled the children with exercise resistance bands. She’s charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation and pleaded not guilty. Her defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, argued severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication left her not criminally responsible. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands when it happened; he’s since relocated to Manhattan and spoken publicly about her mental health.
After five weeks of testimony covering more than 80 witnesses and 300 exhibits, the jury — nine women, three men — told Judge William F. Sullivan three separate times they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Reddington made a last-minute push to swap out a holdout juror, then filed an emergency appeal to the state’s highest court when Sullivan refused. The court said no. Sullivan declared a mistrial.
Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz now has to decide whether to run this whole thing back with a new jury — a decision that isn’t happening today. What is happening: a status and motion hearing on September 29. So no, this isn’t over. It just got longer.
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