{"id":836293,"date":"2026-09-04T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:42:09","slug":"jury-in-lindsay-clancy-trial-starts-day-7-of-deliberations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836293\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial starts day 7 of deliberations"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial<\/a> started a seventh day of deliberations Friday, a day after the jury\u2019s foreperson told the judge a single juror won\u2019t follow the court\u2019s instructions about reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary disclosure made in the form of a note delivered to the judge<\/a> offered the clearest glimpse yet of what may be keeping jurors from reaching a verdict on whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trial has generated intense interest<\/a> for more than a month, deeply dividing the public<\/a> over whether Clancy should be punished in the killings and drawing attention to issues around maternal mental health<\/a> after childbirth.<\/p>\n

The jury has twice told Judge William Sullivan that it was unable to agree on a verdict<\/a>. On Thursday, Sullivan brought in each juror individually and questioned them in private. The judge then reread his instructions, telling them proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond all possible doubt.<\/p>\n

He reminded jurors that the burden of proof is on the prosecution before sending them back to continue deliberating.<\/p>\n

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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.<\/p>\n

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Judge won\u2019t question juror again over reasonable doubt<\/p>\n

The jury went back to work Friday, but only after the judge rejected a request from Clancy\u2019s attorney to again individually question the juror who was the subject of the note about reasonable doubt instructions.<\/p>\n

\u201cReading that note carefully and strictly,\u201d Sullivan said, \u201cthat note does not indicate this is a person who refuses to follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, on Thursday asked Sullivan to dismiss the juror from the case, arguing the person had refused to follow the judge\u2019s instructions. Prosecutors objected, and Sullivan declined to remove the juror. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations,\u201d the judge said Thursday. \u201cI don\u2019t feel it\u2019s appropriate for me to say, \u2018I agree with one juror or the 11.\u2019 I have asked if they are able to follow my instructions. They swore earlier that they could.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point and for the first time in the trial, Clancy was brought to join a sidebar conversation with the judge. Paralyzed from the waist down after her suicide attempt<\/a>, Clancy uses a wheelchair, which Reddington pushed to the front of the courtroom. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe has a right to know what\u2019s going on,\u201d he later told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Lindsay Clancy has never denied killing her children<\/p>\n

Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn\u2019t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023 before trying to take her own life. 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

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

A hung jury would result in a mistrial <\/p>\n

If the jury ultimately can\u2019t agree on a verdict, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial started a seventh day of deliberations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1927,2000,1996,793,97,18320,201892,2001,3,880,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,340952],"class_list":["post-836293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-ap-top-news","tag-connecticut","tag-ct-state-wire","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-juries","tag-lindsay-clancy","tag-massachusetts","tag-news","tag-rhode-island","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-william-sullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}