Three jurors from the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out, just days after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the case.
On Friday, Sept. 4, Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial after jurors tasked with determining Clancy’s criminal responsibility in the deaths of her three young children couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict following over six days of deliberation.
The jury, made up of nine women and three men, began deliberating on Thursday, Aug. 27, and expressed to the judge three times that they were deadlocked and split 11-1.
The three female jurors — a retired chef, a retired fifth grade special needs teacher and a woman who worked for government contractors — spoke to NBC10 Boston about the holdout juror who allegedly admitted he had reasonable doubt.
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Lindsay Clancy.
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“He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms,” said the foreperson. “I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one and then he said, ‘But I’m still not going say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.’”
Another juror told NBC10 Boston that the holdout juror would not interact with the other jurors during the deliberations.
“We read to him on numerous occasions the definition of reasonable doubt from Judge Sullivan’s instruction,” she said. “He actually said one day in the end, ‘Why don’t we have the judge come in and read it again?’ And we were like, ‘No. We have it in front of us. We don’t need that.’ And we would highlight it and, you know, so and so, this is the definition of reasonable doubt. But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
The third juror described the holdout as “very arrogant.”
“He really did not take anything that anybody said,” she said. “He tried to ask a question about the medications, and we went back to the report … We had the toxicology report. We could see exactly the amounts. The nurses [testifying during the trial] spoke to that. That was a question that he had. And he just completely disregarded the information that they gave him.”
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Lindsay Clancy and kids.
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Clancy, 36, pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility in the strangulation deaths of her three children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.
Prosecutors alleged Clancy deliberately killed her children at their Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023. However, her defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated at the time of the killings.
The former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston then jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
The trial, which was held in Plymouth County Superior Court, drew national attention and sparked debate about postpartum mental health and the treatment of women going through psychiatric crises.
More than 80 witnesses testified during the proceedings, including medical experts, Clancy’s friends, law enforcement, and Clancy’s ex-husband Patrick.
Patrick, who has since remarried, testified during the first day of trial that Clancy built a snowman with her children just hours before the killings.
Patrick told jurors he was working from home in the basement when his then-wife was building the snowman.
“She seemed happy,” he testified, adding that she was having “one of her best days.”
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