Lindsay Clancy Mistrial Put On Ice After Defense Hail Mary

Lindsey Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, is taking his fight to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday after the judge prepared to declare a mistrial in the triple-murder trial after a deadlocked jury again said it could not reach a verdict.

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Judge William Sullivan is giving Reddington one hour to file an emergency stay before bringing the jury back into the courtroom to officially declare a mistrial. The unusual appeal will likely go before a single justice on the state’s Supreme Judicial Court.

It’s unclear exactly what legal argument Reddington plans to use to hold off the mistrial.

The drama came moments after the jury of nine women and three men returned a somber note to the court that read, “With a heavy heart we report we cannot come to a unanimous decision.” The jury has deliberated for around 38 hours.

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The defense believes the jury is split 11-1, with a single male juror refusing to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. The prosecution urged Judge Sullivan to declare a mistrial.

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, has admitted to strangling her three children to death with exercise bands in 2023 inside the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home. Her defense team argues that the medical system failed her and that postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible for her actions.

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