{"id":589541,"date":"2026-09-04T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589541\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:14:14","slug":"lindsay-clancy-defence-seeks-jurors-removal-as-jury-again-sent-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589541\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy: Defence seeks juror\u2019s removal as jury again sent back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial sent the judge a note on the sixth day of deliberations complaining that one person on their panel wasn\u2019t following the court\u2019s instructions regarding reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The note from the deadlocked jury came after they twice told the judge in the past two days that they can\u2019t agree<\/a> whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children.<\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan, after receiving the note, brought in each juror individually and questioned them in private. The judge then reread his instructions on reasonable doubt before sending them back to continue deliberating on a verdict.<\/p>\n

That prompted an angry objection from Clancy\u2019s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who demanded that one juror be removed. Sullivan declined.<\/p>\n

Clancy, a 36-year-old former labour and delivery nurse, doesn\u2019t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis<\/a> led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s livestreamed trial has generated intense interest, with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom. The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.<\/p>\n

Throughout the trial, Clancy has received letters of support \u201cfrom all over the world\u201d, defence attorney Kevin Reddington said Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s just amazing. She reads them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy’s jury twice said they were at an impasse<\/p>\n

Sullivan explained to the courtroom on Wednesday that jurors were again at an impasse<\/a> \u2014 a sign that there\u2019s a growing chance of a hung jury and that the trial may end without a resolution.<\/p>\n

Sullivan told the jurors not to abandon their own convictions just to reach a verdict, but urged them to seriously consider opposing views and reassess their positions if appropriate.<\/p>\n

No one knows, he said, that another jury would be \u201cmore intelligent, more impartial or more competent to decide it than you are\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy could go on trial again<\/p>\n

If the jury ultimately can\u2019t agree on a verdict<\/a>, the judge could declare a mistrial. Prosecutors would then have to decide whether to put Clancy on trial again, drop the charges or try to negotiate a plea deal with her lawyer.<\/p>\n

If the jury decides Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions, it could convict her of either murder or manslaughter. If she is acquitted, a judge could still order her confined to a mental health facility if an evaluation determines that she poses a danger to the public.<\/p>\n

The evidence against Lindsay Clancy<\/p>\n

\"Lindsay<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy listens to a witness on video during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass. (Source: Greg Derr\/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Jurors have heard testimony from relatives and doctors about how Clancy\u2019s mental health declined in the months before the killings and how her treatment included several medications and a short stay in a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n

Medical experts hired by the prosecution and the defence reached sharply different conclusions about her psychiatric state when she killed the children.<\/p>\n

Patrick Clancy has said in interviews that he forgives his now ex-wife, whom he views as ill rather than evil.<\/p>\n

Clancy strangled the children with exercise bands in their home\u2019s basement, then jumped from a second-floor window. She remains paralysed from the waist down. Her lawyers say she heard a voice telling her to kill the children so she could end her own life.<\/p>\n

The prosecution argues she deliberately sent her then-husband on errands to get him out of the house, and prosecutors have questioned the seriousness of her suicide attempt.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/p>\n

Where to get help. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial sent the judge a note on the sixth day of deliberations complaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}