Judge Declares Mistrial In Lindsay Clancy Case After Lone Juror Refuses To Budge

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Judge Declares Mistrial In Lindsay Clancy Case After Lone Juror Refuses To Budge

The judge overseeing the Lindsay Clancy case declared a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Friday.

The jury remained deadlocked after seven days of deliberation, prompting the trial judge to announce a mistrial. However, the defense was granted an opportunity to file an emergency stay with the Massachusetts Supreme Court. This gave the state’s highest court an hour-long window to decide whether or not to remove the holdout juror. The state’s high court rejected the request for relief shortly thereafter.

Hours before the case was declared a mistrial, the defense accused the judge of being “soft” on the jury and pressured him to order the jury to continue deliberating. (RELATED: Lindsay Clancy Jury Fails To Reach A Verdict, Judge Orders Them To Keep Deliberating)

“What do you want me to do? Get a brass band? I’m reading the instruction as written,” the judge told the defense.

“The fact I didn’t perhaps give it a full inflection, I’m sorry, I’m not an actor!”

The defense’s persistence for the judge to send the jury back implies that all but one juror had sided with the defense. Notably, the jury was not sequestered.

This comes after the judge read the deadlocked jury the “Tuey-Rodriguez” charge on Wednesday, which is a final instruction urging the jurors to reconsider all opinions and continue deliberating towards a unanimous verdict.

Clancy was charged with three counts of first-degree murder for strangling her three children, ages five, three, and eight months old, to death in the basement of her Massachusetts home.

The defense argued that Clancy had suffered from postpartum psychosis, in which she heard a male voice commanding her to kill herself and her children. Clancy claimed this was the only time she had ever experienced the hallucination.

The prosecution noted that Clancy had mapped out the time and distance to the restaurant and pharmacy where she asked her husband to run errands. Clancy waited until her husband, Patrick, left the home to kill their children, which the prosecution cited as evidence of premeditation.