Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

After seven days of deliberation, the judge in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial declared a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, with one juror refusing to join the eleven others.

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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to remove the holdout juror, but Sullivan refused. However, Sullivan granted Reddington an hour to request an emergency stay from a higher court on the mistrial declaration. This would delay the start of a new trial.

Clancy’s case will likely be re-tried with a new jury; until then, she will remain in a psychiatric facility in northeastern Massachusetts.

Clancy does not dispute that on January 24, 2023 she strangled her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 and 8-month-old Callan — with exercise bands while her husband Patrick was out running errands. Afterward, she attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window of her home in Massachusetts.

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While her defense admits she killed her children, Clancy has pleaded not guilty, arguing that she was not criminally responsible. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has argued that Clancy was in a state of psychosis when she killed her children and has cast blame on the twelve drugs she was prescribed, which he said “turn[ed] her into a zombie” and caused her to experience homicidal and suicidal ideation.

Prosecutors, on the other hand, have argued that Clancy “deliberately and meticulously” strangled her children and “acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to accomplish a very specific goal.”

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