Lindsay Clancy murder trial

A judge declared a mistrial with the jury split 11-1 in favor of acquitting Clancy of murder charges.

Prosecutors argued Clancy knew what she was doing when she strangled the children then tried to kill herself.

Clancy is a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse.

Clancy's defense argued that postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible.

Attorney Edward Paltzik said holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil had zero doubt about his decision.

Lindsay Clancy admitted killing her three children at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

A lawyer for the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case sat for an interview with Fox News.

Paltzik said Reddington's push for an inquiry into the holdout juror is a threat to the Sixth Amendment.

Paltzik said he called Lindsay Clancy a 'demon' and that she strangled her three innocent children.

Reddington said every motion filed is legitimate and based on sound law and facts.

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Paltzik said the defence motion was an attack on the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.

Several jurors said after the trial that they were ultimately divided 11-1 in favour of finding Clancy not criminally responsible.

Desronvil said he had no doubt about Clancy's guilt.

The proceedings against Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

Reddington asked the court to look at calls and texts made by Juror Doe between 08:00 and 16:30 local time during all the days the jury deliberated.

Clancy's attorneys argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity and was struggling with postpartum psychosis at the time.

Clancy remains charged with murder and is in a psychiatric hospital until her case is resolved.

The judge declared a mistrial on 4 September after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.

Clancy's lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the criminal case on the grounds that a mistrial shouldn't have been declared.

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Patrick Clancy's three children were Cora, age 5, Dawson, age 3, and Callan, who was eight months old.

The children were allegedly strangled 17 days after Lindsay Clancy was released from McLean psychiatric hospital.

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The prosecution alleged that on 24 January 2023, Lindsay Clancy intentionally strangled her three children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months—in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home.

A judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's case after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether she was guilty of murder.

Patrick Clancy found his children in the basement with exercise bands around their necks.

Patrick Clancy said Lindsay told him the killings were like a dream and she remembered it the way one would remember after waking up.

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Prosecutors argued that Clancy acted deliberately and understood that strangling her children one by one with exercise bands was wrong.

Clancy's attorney has separately asked the court to overrule the holdout and declare her not guilty.

The lone holdout juror is referred to only as 'Juror Doe' in the motion due to the court's impoundment order protecting the jurors' identities.

Clancy's defense team brought in attorney Martin Weinberg to pursue a motion seeking dismissal on double-jeopardy grounds.

Lindsay Clancy admitted killing the children but her attorneys argued she was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis.

Attorney Edward Paltzik said Desronvil will issue a personal statement in the near future.

Patrick Clancy said he moved to New York City in April seeking anonymity.

Callan Clancy's heart kept beating for four days after the incident.

Patrick Clancy said he found Lindsay Clancy in the backyard with her throat and wrists cut, paralyzed after jumping from a window.

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A hearing is slated for 29 September at Plymouth superior court.

The killings occurred in January 2023.

Clancy argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness at the time of the killings.

Jonathan Turley said prosecutors face a difficult task deciding whether they can persuade a future jury to unanimously reject Clancy's insanity defense.

Fellow jurors said after the mistrial that Desronvil appeared to acknowledge reasonable doubt during deliberations but still refused to join the other 11 jurors in finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

Paltzik said on X that Desronvil is an American hero and champion of justice and thanked supporters.

Paltzik said Desronvil will not be doing any other media interviews at this time.

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Kevin Reddington has filed a motion to drop the charges, and the next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29.

Three women on the jury, including the foreperson, told NBC Boston that 11 jurors agreed to find Clancy not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility.

Edward Andrew Paltzik is Desronvil's attorney.

Clancy attempted suicide on the night of her children's deaths, leaving her paralyzed and in a wheelchair, according to state prosecutors.

Clancy's children were 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and infant son Callan, strangled at the family's home in Duxbury on January 24, 2023.

Juror Nick Dargie said there was not a single piece of evidence or witness testimony the holdout used to prove why he was thinking the way he was.

The judge declared a mistrial on 4 September after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following nearly 40 hours of deliberating.

Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington said he hopes to reach an agreement with prosecutors to avoid a second trial.

Clancy's defence argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors said the killings were calculated.

Reddington said he would opt for a bench trial if prosecutors reduced the top charge to second-degree murder.

Jonathan Turley is a Fox News contributor and professor at The George Washington University Law School.

Sullivan cited threats and concerns for jurors' safety as the reason for impounding their identities.

Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.

Trump said there is no win in the situation because three children are dead.

Trump said the Lindsay Clancy case is a 'state situation' and not a federal one.

The juror's 13-year-old nephew called 911 after he said his uncle and aunt got into an argument.

The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial was accused of domestic violence in September 2021.

The next court hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Plymouth Superior Court.

Hundreds of mostly female Clancy supporters gathered outside a Massachusetts courthouse during the murder trial.

Demonstrators supporting Clancy argued the case is an example of the lack of understanding of postpartum depression.

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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington claimed victory after the mistrial and initially criticized the holdout juror's position.

Reddington represented Michael McDermott, who carried out a workplace mass shooting in Wakefield, Massachusetts, in 2002.

The juror's teenage nephew took out a restraining order against him after he said the juror pushed him to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face.

Several jurors described the lone holdout as refusing to engage in deliberations and described him as arrogant.

The landlord secured a judgment of more than $12,000 in unpaid rent against the holdout juror and is moving forward with an eviction.

Reddington has maintained that the holdout juror failed to follow the judge's instructions and that subsequent information supports his criticism.

Kevin Reddington said Jonathan Turley should check out the record before making his accusations.

Jonathan Turley is a Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor.

Juror Nick Dargie said the holdout juror could not cite any evidence or witness testimony to support his position.

Defense attorney Peter Elikann said the Plymouth County DA's office is known for rarely negotiating plea deals but that Clancy's case could be an exception.

Retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Jack Lu said he does not think prosecutors would agree to a plea deal.

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Jury deliberations yielded an 11-1 split in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity, but the final juror would not change his position favoring conviction.

Tim Cruz said outside the courthouse on Sept. 4 that the evidence suggested to prosecutors that Clancy was in control of her actions when she committed the homicides.

The two sides are scheduled to be in court on Sept. 29 to determine next steps following the mistrial.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has not said whether prosecutors will retry Clancy.

Dargie said multiple jurors who initially leaned toward a guilty verdict came to agree that Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity after reviewing the evidence.

Dargie said he believed most juries would vote to acquit Clancy and that a retried jury would come back with not guilty by reason of insanity nine times out of ten.

Gayle King expressed surprise upon learning the holdout juror's race and gender during an interview on CBS Mornings.

The lone holdout juror was a Black man and the only person of color on the jury.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed a renewed motion to find Clancy not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility on each of the three charges.

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Lindsay Clancy's attorney renewed a push to have the Plymouth County Superior Court throw out her triple-murder case by arguing prosecutors failed to show enough evidence to support a conviction.

Attorney Kevin Reddington filed a motion asking Judge William Sullivan to enter a finding of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility for each criminal count.

Clancy's five-week trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict following a week of deliberations.

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Prosecutors told the court they are still awaiting the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's official determination of the children's cause and manner of death.

On Thursday, Clancy's defense filed a motion arguing the prosecution failed to meet its burden and asked the judge to enter a required finding of not guilty.

Clancy killed her three children by strangling them with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023 before attempting suicide.

A juror named Paula said the jury initially started with eight jurors believing Clancy was not guilty, two thinking she was guilty, and two undecided.

Another juror told CBS station WBZ-TV that the stand-alone juror was not the only one unwilling to see things from the other side.

Prosecutors called dozens of witnesses, including several doctors, during the trial.

The judge banned photographing or filming of jurors during the trial to preserve their anonymity.

Lindsay Clancy's criminal defense attorney made an appeal to President Donald Trump for a pardon.

Lindsay Clancy faced three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

The defense argued Clancy was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis.

Roni Carlson was the foreperson of the jury in Lindsay Clancy's trial.

Three jurors spoke to NBC10 about the trial.

Roni Carlson is a retired elementary school teacher.

Lindsay Clancy's trial began on July 20.

Lindsay Clancy was charged with strangling her three children to death in the family's Duxbury home in 2023.

A hearing on the next steps in the case is set for September 29.

Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, after a jury failed to reach a verdict following over a week of deliberations.

Reddington said he hopes President Donald Trump would consider a pardon for his client.

Clancy pleaded not guilty to three murder charges for the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and infant son Callan at the family's home in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, on Jan. 24, 2023.

Three Massachusetts children were strangled in their family home in January of 2023.

Lindsay Clancy had a history of postpartum psychological distress following the births of her first two children in 2017 and 2019.

Lindsay Clancy does not contest that she killed her children.

Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that Clancy was frankly psychotic at the time of the crime.

Trump's pardon powers are applicable in the federal justice system, and Clancy was tried in Massachusetts' state criminal justice system.

Lindsay Clancy's three children were Cora, age five; Dawson, age three; and Callan, age eight months old.

Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial on Friday.

The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether Clancy was guilty of murder.

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan was overseeing the trial.

Reddington suggested that just one juror stood in the way of an acquittal.

Timothy Cruz described the case as involving 'the cruel and calculated killing of three innocents.'

David Meier, a lawyer who represents Patrick Clancy in a lawsuit over her mental health treatment, said 'there will never be closure' from the loss of the children.

A GoFundMe fundraiser for Lindsay Clancy's parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, raised over $1.1 million after the mistrial.

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The GoFundMe organizer Brandee Mulligan raised the fundraiser goal to $3 million on the same day the mistrial was declared.

The children were killed at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24, 2023.

The trial was held at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Timothy Cruz said the prosecutors on the case had been threatened on social media throughout the trial.

If Lindsay Clancy is convicted of murdering her children, she faces a mandatory life sentence.

About 35 hours into deliberations, jurors in the Clancy trial were called into the courtroom and polled by Judge William Sullivan.

According to the Massachusetts Court System, a person may be found not guilty of a crime if they lacked criminal responsibility when they committed the offense.

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

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.

Clancy has been held at Tewksbury hospital since the killings.

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.

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

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

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

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The jury consisted of 9 women and 3 men.

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

Clancy's defense attorney is Kevin Reddington.

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

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.

The children killed were Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, aged 5, 3, and 8 months.

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

Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 different medications over a period of four months leading up to the deaths of her children.

Lindsay Clancy is accused of killing her three children on January 24, 2023, before attempting suicide by jumping from a bedroom window.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial began deliberating and had not reached a verdict by the end of Friday.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that Lindsay Clancy was misdiagnosed and overmedicated.

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

The jury asked to see a bloody knife that Clancy used in an attempt to take her life and bags containing empty prescription pill bottles found in her house.

The jury could find Clancy guilty of murder, the lesser crime of manslaughter, or acquit her if they decide she was not in control of herself due to her psychiatric problems.

Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing and killed the children because she was depressed and tired of living.

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

Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.

The prosecution carries the burden of proof to overcome the lack of criminal responsibility defense.