Lindsay Clancy judge declares a mistrial after the state’s top court denies defense’s appeal
The judge ended the deadlocked triple-murder trial after the state’s highest court rejected a defense bid to stop the mistrial.
- On Friday, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder case after the 12-person jury reported being hopelessly deadlocked following seven days of deliberations.
- The trial examined whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children—Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy—after defense attorneys argued she suffered from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis.
- Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague argued Clancy deliberately planned the murders, while defense attorney Kevin Reddington blamed "the damn medicine and the lousy medical care that she got."
- Before the mistrial was finalized, the Supreme Judicial Court denied an emergency appeal from defense associate Dana Goldblatt seeking to remove a holdout juror, leaving the mistrial declaration in place.
- Prosecutors may now seek a retrial, a path taken in the recent high-profile case of Karen Read, though the district attorney has not yet announced a formal decision regarding Clancy's future.
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Lindsay Clancy case ends in mistrial after jury deadlocks
A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in a case that sharply divided many Americans over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible for killing her three young children.
Lindsay Clancy trial: Judge declares mistrial after emergency request denied
Plymouth Superior Court during Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial on Aug. 26, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Mel Musto/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children while in the family’s home on Jan. 24, 2023, has ended in a mistrial after seven days of juror deadlock. Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she …
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Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder case that gripped America
Clancy was on trial for the murder of her three children in 2023 in a case that has divided the US over mental illness and the 36-year-old’s criminal culpability.
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