A Single Juror May Prevent a Verdict in Lindsay Clancy Trial
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The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial returns for a sixth day of deliberations after twice reporting it was deadlocked. If jurors again say they cannot agree, the case could end in a mistrial.
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial descended into an extraordinary courtroom confrontation Thursday as a deadlocked jury was sent back to deliberate for a sixth day, prompting a lega
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Judge ends Lindsay Clancy trial for the day as jury foreperson says they're deadlocked over 1 juror
Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn't deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing.
The Massachusetts jury must decide whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
With the Lindsay Clancy jury unable to reach a verdict so far, here is what could happen in the event of a hung jury leading to a mistrial.
Jurors sent the judge a note in about the 35th hour of deliberations, and although the judge did not read the court aloud, defense attorney Kevin Reddington said that the jury foreperson told the judge that a single jury member “refuses to listen to the law.”
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, told reporters he wanted to avoid a mistrial after revealing that one juror was against the other 11
Dawn Light, the woman who was arrested and accused of filming jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial outside Plymouth Superior Court, was arraigned on Wednesday.