Did Lindsay Clancy’s Prosecutors Cost Themselves the Verdict?

The prosecution in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial made a strategic choice: argue that her fall from a second-story window was not a genuine attempt on her life and that her injuries were superficial. Clancy sat in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, while the jury heard it.

Eleven of twelve jurors reportedly sided with the defense. The trial ended in a mistrial after seven days of deliberation at Plymouth Superior Court. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington blamed the prosecution’s tactics and said the jury had been “robbed” by the lone holdout.

Reddington’s legal mane...