Pivotal Lindsay Clancy hearing could decide fate of her triple murder case after mistrial
PLYMOUTH, Mass.— Lindsay Clancy is due back in court Tuesday for the first time since her captivating triple murder trial ended with a deadlocked jury — and the pivotal hearing will likely reveal what’s next in her case.Following the mistrial Sept.
4, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz hasn’t announced whether he plans to retry Clancy on the same first-degree murder charges or whether he’ll opt for an alternative like downgrading the charges, entering into plea talks with the defense or dropping the case altogether.Meanwhile, Kevin Reddington, the lawyer for the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, killer mom, has been furiously working on various last-ditch legal bids and building media pressure as he attempts to get the charges downgraded or thrown out altogether.Reddington also wants the lone holdout juror — the only decider who refused to find her not guilty at trial — to be probed for potential misconduct.The 75-year-old defense lawyer has said in interviews that he would be willing to cut a deal with prosecutors as long as any agreement didn’t involve prison time for Clancy, whom he says needs medical and psychiatric help instead. If the DA’s office says it plans to retry the case, a new trial date could also be set at Tuesday’s hearing.Several jurors have come forward following the mistrial, revealing that 11 of the 12 panelists were persuaded by Reddington’s defense — that Clancy wasn’t criminally responsible for strangling Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 and 8-month-old Callan with exercise bands on Jan.24, 2023.The defense attorney claimed at trial that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice that commanded her to carry out the killings and take her own life.
Over the course of the five-week trial, the jury of nine women and three men heard testimony that Clancy desperately sought medical help in the four months before the killings, including regularly m...