Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile triple murder trial ended with a hung jury in early September
Lindsay Clancy is expected to appear in court Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended with a ᴅᴇᴀᴅlocked jury earlier this month.
During a status conference in Plymouth County Superior Court on Tuesday, Sept. 29, prosecutors are expected to determine whether they plan to retry Clancy for the Jan. 24, 2023, murders of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, The Boston Globe reports. If they decide to proceed, Judge William F. Sullivan may set a date for the retrial, the Globe reports.
Clancy’s attorneys, Kevin Reddington and Martin Weinberg, are expected to argue against a second trial for Clancy on the grounds of double jeopardy, after they filed a motion last week asking the court to bar a retrial, the ᴀssociated Press and ABC News report.
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The former labor and delivery nurse was on trial for murder in the strangling deaths of her three young children in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Mᴀss. Her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis brought on or exacerbated by overmedication and inadequate mental health care.
Clancy attempted suicide by jumping out of a second-story window and was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors, on the other hand, argued that Clancy willfully and knowingly murdered her children.
At the end of the five-week trial and ensuing deliberations, eleven jurors were set to vote that Clancy was not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. One juror, Michael Desronvil, did not.
After the trial, his fellow jurors said the juror told them he had reasonable doubt but still would not vote to find her not guilty. They accused him of disengaging during deliberations.
“There was times he wouldn’t engage, like he’d be scrolling on his phone while people are talking to him, things like that, where he’s just not paying attention,” juror Nick Dargie told ABC News.
Desronvil, however, has maintained through his attorney that he believed Clancy was guilty, The New York Times reports.
Clancy remains held at Tewksbury Hospital, a state psychiatric facility.
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