Lindsay Clancy verdict live updates: Killer mom back in court as jury asks its first question on day two of deliberations
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial are back in court Friday to continue deliberations.
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Judge William Sullivan had dismissed the 12-person jury — nine women and three men — Thursday afternoon after they did not reach a verdict during four hours of deliberation.
Clancy, 36, strangled her daughter Cora, 5, and sons Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, before trying to take her own life by jumping from a window of their Duxbury home in 2023, which left her paralyzed.
Here’s the latest on Lindsay Clancy’s trial for allegedly murdering her three children:
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The 36-year-old is “nervous” and “scared,” her defense attorney Kevin Reddington told reporters as he left court Thursday.
The jury will need to decide whether they believe Clancy’s defense — that she should be found not criminally responsible because she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and heard a man’s voice telling her to carry out the killings and attempt suicide.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, claim the former labor-and-delivery nurse carefully planned and knew the wrongfulness of her horrific acts.
Follow The Post’s live updates from Lindsay Clancy’s trial:
Rigorous selection process used to whittle down 12 jurors deciding Lindsay Clancy’s fate
By
Priscilla DeGregory
Twelve jurors are currently deciding the fate of Lindsay Clancy — but it was a rigorous process to land on this select group.
For over three days last month, the lawyers and the judge worked to whittle down a pool of nearly 300 prospective jurors to ultimately land on the 18 panelists who oversaw Clancy’s five-week trial.
That process was meant to ensure that only people who could set their biases aside and return a fair verdict would be selected for the decision-making process. They did this by questioning candidates for the jury.
Then when the trial wrapped up yesterday, the judge’s clerk randomly drew the numbers of six jurors from that group of 18 who were moved to be alternates.
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Those alternates are not involved in the deliberations.
The deliberating group is composed of nine women and six men.
Clancy’s lawyer reveals what jury wanted to see
By
Kyra Breslin
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, confirmed that the jury wanted to see the medications and the knife during deliberations.
“No they wanted to ingest them,” he joked to reporters.
Jury deliberations hit five-hour mark
By
Mollie Mansfield
The jury in the Lindsay Clancy case has now been deliberating for five hours.
There has only been one question from the jurors so far, but it was not announced in court.
Mysterious jury question not announced in court
By
Priscilla DeGregory
Judge William Sullivan and the lawyers went to sidebar for a few minutes as the judge took out clear bags of evidence.
After, Sullivan handed two evidence bags to one of the clerks, presumably to be brought into the jury.
One of the bags contained pill bottles for Lindsay Clancy’s prescriptions that were displayed to the jury at trial, according to a CourtTV reporter.
Then everyone dispersed and the question was never read aloud.
Jury has first question for the court
By
Kyra Breslin
and
Priscilla DeGregory
The jury has posed their first question to the court after deliberating over four hours since they started yesterday.
Kevin Reddington showed something to Lindsay Clancy on his phone and she spoke softly to her defense attorney as they waited for the judge to come in and announce what the query was.
When Judge William Sullivan came into the room, he asked to speak with the lawyers at sidebar.
Sullivan took pieces of evidence out of plastic evidence bags as he spoke to the lawyers.
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