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Lindsay Clancy jurors felt that prosecutors in her triple-murder trial lacked \u201ccompassion\u201d \u2014 and argued that the state even helped prove she was a caring mom who \u201csnapped\u201d when she killed her three young children.<\/p>\n

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Three jurors, including the foreperson, from Clancy\u2019s high-profile case explained in an interview with NBC10 Boston that evidence and witnesses throughout the grueling 7-week trial \u201cproved\u201d that Clancy loved her kids. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith everybody saying she loved her children so much and everything proved she loved her children, from our journals to, her mother in law, everything proved that she loved her children. So she had to have snapped,\u201d the foreperson told the outlet. <\/p>\n

One of the jurors told the outlet the \u201cprosecution didn\u2019t show enough compassion\u201d toward Clancy, who claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was overprescribed a cocktail of psychiatric meds before strangling her kids. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just found it to be harsh \u2014 very, very harsh,\u201d she said of the prosecution\u2019s case. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that they had no character witnesses in regards to Lindsay being a bad mother \u2026 I found it to be biased.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the trio said they found Clancy\u2019s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, to be \u201centertaining,\u201d \u201carrogant,\u201d \u201ccompassionate\u201d and \u201cfunny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis compassion for Lindsay was amazing,\u201d one of the women said.<\/p>\n

In fact, the jurors told the outlet they were so impressed that if they needed representation, they would hire Reddington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reddington asked the jury to find the 36-year-old former nurse not criminally responsible on the grounds she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and heard a voice commanding her to strangle her three kids.<\/p>\n

But the prosecution claimed she carefully planned the killings and made up hearing the voice and experiencing a psychotic break to avoid criminal culpability.<\/p>\n

The three female jurors also detailed just how close the 12-person panel was to finding the killer mom not guilty by reason of insanity until one male holdout juror blocked the verdict.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,\u201d the foreperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out, I wrote my signature on each one but then he said, \u2018But I\u2019m still not going to say she\u2019s not guilty by reason of insanity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the three, was named Paula and is a former government contractor. Another, Kelly, is a chef in Plymouth, and the foreperson, Ronnie, is a retired fifth grade special needs teacher.<\/p>\n

Ronnie told NBC10 that managing the days-long deliberations was harder than dealing with her fifth grade students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The jurors called the holdout \u201carrogant\u201d for refusing to interact with the other members \u2014 some of whom were nurses \u2014 and for refusing to consider their takes on the evidence in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very arrogant. He really did not take anything that anybody said,\u201d one of the women claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another said, \u201cevery one of us in the hours of our frustration would get up and walk the room because you just couldn\u2019t sit anymore. And we would all go to the cart with the exhibits. He, I think, got up to the cart once very briefly and went back to his seat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would not interact with us and try to understand,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe read to him, on numerous occasions, the definition of reasonable doubt from Judge [William] Sullivan\u2019s instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut he had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Clancy was on trial for strangling her three children \u2014 Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8-months \u2014 at her Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan ultimately declared a mistrial Friday after the jurors sent out its third note that they were deadlocked after over 38 hours of deliberation across seven days.<\/p>\n

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