Did Lindsay Clancy’s Lone Holdout Change Everything?

Eleven jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial reportedly wanted to acquit. One refused. After seven days and more than thirty-six hours of deliberation, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court.

The jury of nine women and three men faced one question: was Clancy criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023. Clancy admitted to killing them. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis and overmedication stripped her ability to understand what she was doing. Prosecutors said she was rational and deliberate.

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