Why Lindsay Clancys lawyer name-dropped Karen Read as he fought against mistrial

Accused killer mom Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer referenced the bombshell Karen Read murder case Friday in his failed bid to avoid a mistrial — by arguing that the jurors may have been confused during deliberations.Attorney Kevin Reddington cited the high-profile case — in which Read was charged with killing her Massachusetts police officer boyfriend in January 2022— while demanding that jurors be “polled” and asked to return for more deliberations.“Under Karen Read versus the Commonwealth … Massachusetts rules of criminal procedure give a trial judge discretion to require a jury to return a verdict for charges on which they have agreed before declaring a mistrial,” Reddington told Judge William Sullivan.A similar rule “also permits the judge to poll the jury when a verdict is returned and before the verdict is recorded, however, a judge is not required to accept a partial verdict before declaring a mistrial,” he said.A lawyer for the prosecution then fired back, “I would object to that … I think we’re in a different scenario here than in the Read case.”“In that case, they did reach a verdict on certain charges but not others,” she said.Before making the argument, Reddington had just asked the judge to consider that the jury note was highly unusual.“That jury foreperson wrote, very unusually, that it was ‘with a heavy heart’” that they couldn’t agree on a verdict, Reddington said.In Karen Read’s first murder trial in 2024, jurors were confused by whether they had to agree on a verdict for all charges — including second-degree murder, manslaughter while under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash, Read’s lawyer, Peter Elikann, told The Post Friday.“[Reddington] didn’t want an issue where the jury didn’t know it wasn’t all or nothing,” Elikann said.To prevent that, Reddington said he wanted each juror polled about whether they are truly in a deadlock.“He wants each one of them individually questioned o...