What Lindsay Clancy's Defense Can Do Instead Of A Second Trial

If the Lindsay Clancy jury hangs, the next step is not predetermined. The DA can retry, negotiate, or drop the charges. But the defense also has moves, and the most significant one has barely been discussed.

Massachusetts allows a defendant to waive the right to a jury trial. Kevin Reddington could request a bench trial, putting the case before a single judge instead of twelve jurors. The argument writes itself: if the reason this jury deadlocked is that lay people cannot resolve a dispute between psychiatric experts, a judge who has spent a career evaluating expert testimony...