Lindsay Clancy prosecutor has been silent on trying her again and there may be one surprising reason why
The prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy case have been nearly silent on when and how they will try the killer mom again — and there is one other case that could be influencing the decision, legal experts said.Clancy lawyer Kevin Reddington blasted DA Timothy Cruz at a hearing Monday for not yet revealing whether he will retry Clancy on the same first-degree murder charges for strangling her three young kids — or downgrade the charges to second-degree murder.He also hasn’t revealed when his prosecutors will be ready for a new trial after the first one sensationally ended in a Sept.4 mistrial caused by a deadlocked jury.Cruz could be weighing how his decision in the Clancy case could impact a similar murder case involving Latarsha Sanders, said veteran Boston attorney and former prosecutor Brad Bailey.Sanders’ conviction for killing her two young sons was overturned last summer because her mental health issues were kept out of trial despite, her insanity defense, according to a report by NBC 10 Boston.
Cruz’s office prosecuted both Sanders and Clancy’s cases and the same judge presided over both trials.If Cruz downgraded Clancy’s charges to second-degree murder — something Reddington has urged him to do — Bailey said this could affect how he proceeds in Sanders’ case.“Are they to be consistent? Will they need to also offer proceeding under murder two in the other case, or are they going to open a floodgate, and do they want to take a hard line?” Bailey said.Another veteran Commonwealth defense lawyer, Peter Elikann, agreed Cruz could be considering Sanders’ case.“There’s a good chance that that would be one of the many things that they would take into consideration when making this decision,” Elikann said.“Because they might be concerned about having a consistent policy.”“But then again, every case is very different, with different sets of specific facts and the specific facts are so very important that it’s very hard to general...