Lindsay Clancy judge gives deadlocked jury last resort Tuey-Rodriguez charge after they cant reach verdict
PLYMOUTH, Mass.– The judge in Lindsay Clancy’s captivating murder trial has urged the jury to continue deliberating after they sent out a second note announcing they are deadlocked.The jurors – nine women and three men – announced for the second time Wednesday that they were at an impasse about whether to convict the postpartum mom of first-degree murder for strangling her three young kids.Follow The Post’s live updates on the Lindsay Clancy trialPlymouth Judge William Sullivan read the so-called “Tuey-Rodriguez” charge, nicknamed the “Dynamite Charge” by local jurists, strongly encouraging them to keep working to try to reach a consensus.The jurors first told the judge they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in a note Tuesday.At issue is whether the 36-year-old Duxbury mom should be held criminally responsible for killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan on Jan.
24, 2023, before she tried to take her own life.Clancy wants a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity based on her claim she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice telling her to carry out the heinous acts.Prosecutors say she wasn’t in psychosis at the time, claiming that she carefully planned and executed the crimes.Both sides rested their cases after a total of 21 days of testimony, which began with Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, taking the stand as the first witness last month.Patrick Clancy — who has since moved to New York City and remarried infertility specialist Rachel Danis — told jurors that Lindsay Clancy repeatedly sought help for her worsening mental state in the months leading to the killings.She began seeing a psychiatrist, called a suicide hotline twice, checked herself into a mental institution for five days and sought help from two perinatal clinics – but still, she “kept getting worse and worse,” Patrick Clancy testified, and said Lindsay Clancy had even opened up to him about having thou...