A hung jury, a defense attorney saying the split was 11-1 for acquittal, and a district attorney who answered by calling the case cruel and calculated. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to break down what Tim Cruz does with a case that just failed in front of a jury.
Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial September 4, 2026, after seven days and 38 hours of deliberation. Kevin Reddington says eleven jurors wanted to acquit. Cruz said the facts are that Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and that the evidence suggested to his office she was in control of her actions. He called the case the "cruel and calculated killing of three innocents." He has not announced a decision on a retrial. Court reconvenes September 29.
The prosecution's theory was premeditation. On January 24, 2023, Lindsay searched Apple Maps at 4:13 p.m. for a restaurant in Plymouth, called in a takeout order at 5:10 p.m., and Patrick Clancy left to get it at 5:54 p.m. Prosecutors argued she was getting him out of the house. The defense argued postpartum psychosis and never disputed that she caused the deaths. The jurors agreed on what happened and split on whether she was responsible for it.
Eric explains how a prosecutor's office takes apart its own case after a loss like this. Whether swinging for first-degree murder cost the state a conviction it could have won on a lesser charge. How the expert testimony gets rebuilt so a jury can follow it. The moment an elected DA weighs the county's cost against a triple homicide. And what Patrick Clancy's wishes are worth, now that his attorney says a second trial would be extraordinarily painful for him.
Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She is held at Tewksbury Hospital.
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