Lindsay Clancy prosecutors face dilemma: Retrial or plea deal in case involving 3 strangled children

Prosecutors pursuing a second trial against Lindsay Clancy could face the same obstacle that produced a hung jury the first time: finding 12 Massachusetts jurors willing to unanimously reject her insanity defense.Jonathan Turley, a Fox News contributor and professor at The George Washington University Law School, said the prosecution must weigh the possibility of another deadlocked trial against the political and emotional consequences of abandoning the case."The question is whether they could ever get a jury, particularly in Massachusetts, that would unanimously vote against this defendant," Turley told Fox News Digital."For prosecutors, they have to weigh that, but they may find the alternative equally unappealing — to simply walk away and say, 'There are three dead children here, but we just don't think we could ever win this case.'"LINDSAY CLANCY ATTORNEY KEVIN REDDINGTON SIGNALS HE'S OPEN TO A DEAL, HOPES DA WILL 'REVISIT' CASEDefendant Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom during her murder trial on Friday, Sept.

4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass.(Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, said he believes the district attorney's office should try and negotiate a deal — but also that it appears unlikely due to the nature of the crime and the defense's position after deadlocked jurors split 11-1, with only a single holdout in favor of finding Clancy guilty of murder in the strangling deaths of her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months."The reason I don't think there's any deal to be made here is Reddington has come out during his media tour and said that he's not going to accept any deal that results in jail time," he told Fox News Digital.

"Even if you're talking about first-degree or second-degree murder, in Massachusetts, first-degree, of course, has no possibility of parole.Second-degree has the possibility of a parole.

That's not something that Reddington and the defense are...