A juror on the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts said she believes the jury "let down Lindsay" and that it was "hard to separate the children from what our task was."Clancy was on trial for strangling and killing her three young children in January 2023 after sending her then-husband, Patrick, out to pick up medication and takeout.When he returned, he found Clancy injured outside after an apparent suicide attempt and the children unconscious in the basement.
Two children died that night, while the third was airlifted to a Boston hospital and died several days later.The trial ended in a mistrial last week after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.Eleven jurors sided with finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility — Massachusetts’ version of an insanity defense — while one holdout favored finding her criminally responsible."Everybody says you're not supposed to feel like you failed, but you have a task to come out unanimous.
And we tried everything we could to get to that end.And I feel like we let down Lindsay," Paula, 65, who was one of the jurors who sided with the majority, told WCVB.LINDSAY CLANCY LAWYER SAYS HE PLANS NEW MOTION TO DISMISS AFTER JURORS SPEAK OUT ON MISTRIAL: REPORTA juror on the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts said she believes the jury "let down Lindsay." (Greg Derr/Pool The Patriot Ledger via AP)Clancy's legal team did not dispute that she killed her children but argued that she should not be found criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Clancy also admitted in court filings to killing her three children, but claimed that severe mental illness left her not criminally responsible.Paula said the jury's majority believed that Clancy needed help and that the healthcare system failed her, adding that she thinks the medical community should do more to support women with postpartum mental health issues."There was a clear indic...