Lindsay Clancy Trial Update: Judge Planning to Declare Mistrial as Jury Remains Deadlocked | Just Jared

Shocking news has come from the courtroom in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

On Friday morning (September 4), Judge William Sullivan said that he is planning on declaring a mistrial in the case after the jury remains deadlocked, according to The New York Times.

His announcement to the courtroom came shortly after jurors sent a note saying that, “with a heavy heart,” they have been unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

The jury – which consists of nine women and three men – has been deliberating for nearly 40 hours with one juror, referred to as a “he,” disagreeing with the other members of the jury.

The note comes two hours after the judge declined to remove a jury member, who appears to be the lone voice against acquittal of Clancy, a nurse who strangled her three children in January 2023. On Thursday, Clancy‘s attorney Kevin Reddington demanded that one juror be replaced for refusing to “listen to the law,” but the judge dismissed the demand.

The judge said that after sending the jury back twice, he was required by law to declare a mistrial.

Reddington told the judge he wanted to immediately go to the Massachusetts Supreme Court to reverse what he called “this travesty.” He asked the judge not to dismiss the jury until the Supreme Court ruled. The judge gave Reddington one hour to go to the Supreme Court.

Reddington argued the judge had discretion to make the jury press on, by the judge rejected the argument.

Why is Lindsay Clancy on trial?

If you were unaware, back in January 2023, Clancy killed her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — by strangling them with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Mass., home. She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck before jumping from a second-story window, sustaining injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

She has pleaded not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility. Clancy doesn’t dispute that she killed her children, but her attorney has argued that his client was in a state of psychosis and suffering from overmedication, which the defense claims makes her not criminally responsible.

While Reddington has claimed that Clancy was over-medicated and in a state of psychosis, prosecutors have argued that she deliberately killed her children and that she was not in a psychotic state when she did so.

In addition to first-degree murder, jurors were also allowed to consider lesser charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter.

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