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.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington characterized the split as eleven to one for acquittal and went public immediately. He called the holdout biased, thanked the jurors “minus one,” and said the jury was “robbed.” He then filed an emergency petition with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to intervene. The court denied it within the hour.
When the formal mistrial was read, female jurors broke down in the courtroom. One put her face in her hands. Another clenched her fists. A third would not open her eyes.
DA Timothy Cruz defended his prosecution and said he would decide shortly on a retrial. Sullivan scheduled a status conference for September 29 and said he wanted to retry the case in the fall.
Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines whether one holdout truly changes the trajectory of this case and what leverage the eleven-to-one split gives Reddington in retrial negotiations. He also asks why the families on both sides may be the ones who decide whether this happens again.
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