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Lindsay Clancy trial jury deadlocked, but judge tells them to keep deliberating
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The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial began its fourth day of deliberations Tuesday as it continues to weigh the circumstances under which the Massachusetts mother killed her three young children. On Tuesday morning, after three days of deliberation, a jury of nine women and three men will continue to deliberate, with several options before them: This hinges on the postpartum psychosis defence - her legal team argued that Clancy hallucinated a voice that told her to kill the children.
A guilty verdict for first-degree murder would mean the jury found Clancy killed her children with “deliberate premeditation” or “extreme atrocity or cruelty”; a guilty verdict for second-degree murder wouldn’t carry either of those conditions.
"The judge will give the jury as much time as they need, but the jury has signaled to us they are reaching the end of their deliberations," said WBZ-TV legal analyst Jennifer Roman. The jury received yet another option when the judge allowed them to find Clancy guilty of manslaughter - previously a point of contention between the defence and the prosecution.
"This option allows the jury to accept that the murders were not planned or calculated but that instead Clancy made a split-second decision to act," Cucolo said. “I challenge Nancy Grace to show us where Lindsay Clancy ever said, ever googled ‘How to kill’ — words that came out of her mouth,” Reddington said.
According to WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex, who is in the courtroom, there were no noticeable reactions to the deadlocked jury from Clancy or her family. "For this verdict, the jurors may not be convinced that the actions leading up to the murder rose to the level of pre-planned [or] premeditated but that instead, Clancy consciously saw an opportunity to commit the killings at the specified time," Cucolo said.
The manslaughter option says that through an involuntary intoxication, in this case an overprescription of her medication, Clancy experienced a mental defect that was a mitigator in her understanding what she was doing, Hershon said.
Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague said during closing arguments there was no dispute Clancy was suffering from mental illness but it was not so severe that she didn't know right from wrong. This is the most serious potential outcome for Clancy - being found guilty of first-degree murder, which is the intentional and premeditated killing of another person.
"After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision," Sullivan said as he read the note from the jury in court. Expert witnesses for the prosecution cast doubt on whether Clancy actually heard the voice that she said ordered her to kill her children.
What's confirmed
- The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial began its fourth day of deliberations Tuesday as it continues to weigh the circumstances under which the Massachusetts mother killed her three young children.
- A guilty verdict for first-degree murder would mean the jury found Clancy killed her children with “deliberate premeditation” or “extreme atrocity or cruelty”; a guilty verdict for second-degree murder wouldn’t carry eit
- "The judge will give the jury as much time as they need, but the jury has signaled to us they are reaching the end of their deliberations," said WBZ-TV legal analyst Jennifer Roman.
- "This option allows the jury to accept that the murders were not planned or calculated but that instead Clancy made a split-second decision to act," Cucolo said.
- According to WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex, who is in the courtroom, there were no noticeable reactions to the deadlocked jury from Clancy or her family.
- The manslaughter option says that through an involuntary intoxication, in this case an overprescription of her medication, Clancy experienced a mental defect that was a mitigator in her understanding what she was doing,
What's still developing
- "After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision," Sullivan said as he read the note from the jury in court.
- According to WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex, who is in the courtroom, there were no noticeable reactions to the deadlocked jury from Clancy or her family.
- Rex reported that Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, had whispered to them before the announcement so they presumably knew what was coming.
- Prosecutors said Clancy planned the killings and knew right from wrong when she strangled the children.
- "The judge will give the jury as much time as they need, but the jury has signaled to us they are reaching the end of their deliberations," said WBZ-TV legal analyst Jennifer Roman.
- The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial began its fourth day of deliberations Tuesday as it continues to weigh the circumstances under which the Massachusetts mother killed her three young children.
- A guilty verdict for first-degree murder would mean the jury found Clancy killed her children with “deliberate premeditation” or “extreme atrocity or cruelty”; a guilty verdict for second-degree murder wouldn’t carry…
- “I challenge Nancy Grace to show us where Lindsay Clancy ever said, ever googled ‘How to kill’ — words that came out of her mouth,” Reddington said.