Lindsay Clancy murder trial

Clancy's lawyer asked the judge to remove a juror after the jury forewoman sent a court note saying one holdout would not follow the court's instructions on reasonable doubt.

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy case failed to reach a verdict on their sixth day of deliberations.

The defence's request to remove the juror was denied by the judge.

Patrick Clancy testified during the trial about the day of the killings, stating he was out running errands including picking up children's stool softener at a CVS store and takeout for dinner.

Patrick Clancy issued a statement saying the prospect of another trial is extraordinarily painful.

Clancy's defense team made an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to replace the holdout juror with an alternate.

Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, posted on X praising the holdout juror for holding Clancy accountable.

The jury deadlocked 11 to 1, with 11 jurors voting to acquit Clancy and one holdout refusing to join them.

The jury consisted of 9 women and 3 men.

If Lindsay Clancy is found not guilty due to lack of criminal responsibility, the court would begin the process of committing her to a state psychiatric facility.

State prosecutors said Lindsay Clancy attempted suicide on the night of her children's deaths, leaving her paralyzed and in a wheelchair.

Lindsay Clancy and her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, do not dispute that she killed her three children.

McGraw said the defense's explanation was more understandable and coherent than the prosecution's.

McGraw said Clancy's case was a psychiatric emergency that was not treated as such.

McGraw said the prosecution made a clunky presentation but got their act together in the end.

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy has ended in a mistrial.

Removing the lone juror would require the jury to start deliberations from scratch, according to Casarez.

Reddington said Clancy is heartened and has faith in the jury.

Clancy did not testify during her trial.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial concluded a second day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a verdict.

Clancy entered a plea of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

Paul Zeizel testified that he overheard Lindsay Clancy say a disembodied male voice instructed her to kill her children and herself.

Patrick Clancy was the first person to take the stand at the trial.

Susan Clancy testified that Lindsay Clancy was anxious, paranoid, suicidal, and begging for help.

Clinician Latiesha Dukes testified that Clancy called the Aspire crisis line on December 4 and was told she did not qualify for inpatient treatment due to lacking a suicidal ideation plan.

Clancy left McLean Hospital on January 5 after being prescribed trazodone and Ativan.

In September 2022, Dr. Jennifer Tufts diagnosed Clancy with generalized anxiety disorder and an adjustment disorder with depressed mood.

Dr. Phillip Resnick testified that at the time of the crime on Jan. 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy was frankly psychotic.

The trial included more than 300 exhibits and nearly 80 witnesses.

The jury asked to see two Ziploc bags of pill bottles and the knife Lindsay Clancy used in her attempted suicide.

If convicted of any of the three counts of first-degree murder she faces, Lindsay Clancy would face a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Attorney Alex Thomason said he has spoken with men involved in custody disputes with women who have been posting support for Lindsay Clancy.

Nicole Brenecki warned that a fired employee could raise legal concerns if their Clancy-related statements were used as a pretext to get rid of them for other reasons.

Clancy pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

Kevin Reddington said there were over 290 exhibits and five weeks of testimony in the trial.

Clancy did not testify during the trial.

Sprague said Clancy started planning the murders at 4 p.m. on Jan. 24, 2023, by looking up how long it would take Patrick to pick up takeout food.

Closing arguments were presented on Thursday morning following 21 days of testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.

Reddington criticized Clancy's first psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, saying she had two months of experience.

The prosecution argued that Clancy took deliberate and premeditated action to kill her children.

The prosecution argued that Clancy was fully aware at the time that it was wrong.

The jury must decide whether to convict Clancy on first-degree murder or on a lesser charge like second-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter.

Patrick Clancy was never a suspect or under suspicion by investigators.

Patrick Clancy testified that Clancy's 'big spiral' began about a month before the children's deaths.

Clancy has not disputed that she killed her children.

Clancy's defence team argued she had hallucinations and delusions after giving birth to her youngest child.

Clancy's mother Paula Musgrove testified that her daughter told her and her ex-husband that she was having thoughts of harming the children a month before their deaths.

Clancy's former mother-in-law Susan Clancy testified that Lindsay Clancy was 'begging for help'.

Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that Lindsay Clancy killed her children while she was experiencing a 'command hallucination' and felt like 'a puppet.'

Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who consults for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, told jurors that Lindsay Clancy's self-described auditory hallucinations were 'very unusual.'

The jury panel seated for Lindsay Clancy's trial is made up of 12 women and six men, but only 12 of them will deliberate.

Kevin Reddington is Clancy's attorney.

Closing arguments were made on Thursday before the jury began deliberating.

In Massachusetts, a first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life in prison sentence without the possibility of parole.

The defense argues Lindsay Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis when killing her children.

Rep. Tommy Pope, who prosecuted Susan Smith, said he does not believe Lindsay Clancy proved a break with reality.

Dr. Gregory Saathoff is a University of Virginia forensic psychiatrist who consults for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Under cross-examination, Saathoff said he had treated only two women experiencing postpartum psychosis in the late 1980s and during the 1990s.

The Women and Infants hospital in Rhode Island turned Clancy away from a postpartum day program.

Saathoff said Clancy had complained about a lack of sleep and feeling numb when she went to an emergency room about a month before the killings.

Heilbrun testified that Clancy describing hearing a voice during the night she killed her children, but never before or after, was 'very unusual.'

Dr. Kirk Heilbrun brought up Catholic religion during testimony, prompting a defense objection and mistrial request.

The defense rested on Friday after calling forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick as its last witness.

Margaret McLean is a former prosecutor and trial lawyer who said Thorndike's testimony was "almost like she was acting" and that it was "her moment to shine."

Thorndike said in her TikTok video that part of Clancy's stay at McLean fell over a weekend and a holiday, and she did not have access to the doctor assigned to her case, instead being seen briefly by a single doctor responsible for all 23 patients on the unit.

Thorndike declined to comment to the Guardian.

Lindsay Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder.

Lindsay Clancy allegedly jumped from a second-floor window after the killings.

Judge William Sullivan denied a request for a mistrial from Kevin Reddington regarding Kirk Heilbrun's mention of Clancy's Catholic faith.

Dr. Avram Mack is a child and forensic psychiatrist and a prosecution expert.

Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney contends that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time she killed her children.

A not-guilty verdict by reason of insanity would not result in Clancy's release; instead, she would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital and subject to periodic reviews.

Lindsay Clancy killed her three children.

Lindsay Clancy's defense argues she should not be held criminally responsible for the 2023 deaths of her three children because she was mentally ill with postpartum psychosis.

Resnick evaluated Clancy after the killings and reviewed her medical records.

Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for a few days shortly before the deaths.

Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick testified as the final witness for Lindsay Clancy's defence.

Patrick Clancy filed for divorce in February 2024.

Lindsay Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her three children.

Patrick Clancy's mother, Susan Clancy, was a defense witness in Lindsay Clancy's trial.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder.

The defense rested in Lindsay Clancy's triple-murder trial after four weeks of testimony.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick testified as the final defense witness that Clancy was "frankly psychotic" on the day of the killings.

The defense rested its case in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and prosecutors began calling rebuttal witnesses.

Psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack was called as the prosecution's first rebuttal witness.

Prosecutors state that Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children on January 24, 2023, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home after sending her husband on errands, and was paralyzed after jumping from a second-story window.

Lindsay Clancy faces a sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder.

Lindsay Clancy's defense in her murder trial rested on Friday.

The first rebuttal witness called by the prosecution was forensic psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack.

Postpartum psychosis is considered a medical emergency and can involve mania, depression and psychotic symptoms such as hearing voices

Postpartum psychosis is not classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges while not disputing that she carried out the killings

Callan was eight months old at the time of his death.

Postpartum psychosis is not formally classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).

Lindsay Clancy's defense argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her children.

Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham asked Susan Clancy if she knew murder was a mortal sin, prompting Judge William Sullivan to call a sidebar and order the remark stricken from the record.

Dr. Paul Zeizel, a clinical forensic psychologist, testified that Lindsay Clancy called a suicide hotline in December 2022 and did not receive help because she did not have a plan.

Judge William Sullivan rejected a defense motion to add Emily Thorndike, a former clinical social worker at McLean Hospital, to the witness list.

At the start of the trial, Patrick Clancy testified about returning home to find his children, and prosecutors played a seven-minute 911 call that was not released publicly

Reddington has argued Clancy also had bipolar disorder and that prescribed antidepressants worsened her condition

Clancy's sister Allison Ozga testified that at the end of December Clancy told her she had experienced suicidal thoughts every day for a month

Dr. Kimberley Springer testified that images of Callan Clancy's neck displayed signs consistent with ligature strangulation.

Nurse Rachelle Amedee testified that Lindsay Clancy arrived at the ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital early in the morning on Jan. 25.

Judge William Sullivan did not decide on the motion to allow the three defense witnesses but said he would consider the issues overnight.

Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Lindsay Clancy was indicted on three counts each of murder in the deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan in 2023.

Lindsay Clancy became a paraplegic after harming herself in the immediate aftermath of her children's deaths.

The jury is made up of 12 women and six men.

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham said in opening statements that the children were strangled meticulously and that Clancy understood her actions and made a deliberate choice.

Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Lindsay Clancy's three children were Cora, age 5, Dawson, age 3, and Callan, 8 months old.

Prosecutors argue that Lindsay Clancy planned the killings and bears full responsibility for their deaths.

Lindsay Clancy was a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.

The witness list for the trial contains more than 200 names.

Judge William F. Sullivan said he expected to seek 18 jurors for the case.