Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Accuses One Juror of Holding Up Verdict

“The question is not sufficient enough,” he continued. “It does not allow any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.”

Reddington noted that if the jury were to come back with a mistrial “because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it’s a shame.”

He made a motion to have the juror removed because said juror “refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.”

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague then approached the podium, confirming they did have the note from the jury but there was “no way to determine what the deliberations are, who’s correct, who’s incorrect.”

“Nor should we attempt to because that’s part of deliberations,” she added, saying prosecutors do not have “an objection to the questions or the reinstruction.”

Judge Sullivan declined the motion to have the juror removed, explaining that “the discharge of a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking.”

“I don’t feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations. I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11,” Sullivan explained. “At this point I’ve asked if they are able to follow my instructions. They swore earlier that they could. They’ve said at this point that they can.”

The jury has since been dismissed for the day without giving a verdict and will resume deliberations Sept. 4.

Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and while she has not denied that she killed her and then-husband PatrickClancy’s children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on Jan. 24, 2023 at their home in Duxbury, Mass., she had pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder and strangulation. 

During previous deliberations on both Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, the jury said they had been unable to reach a consensus and remained deadlocked. The judge urged the jurors to reconsider their positions to avoid a hung jury and a mistrial.

Throughout the trial, which began on July 27, Reddington has argued that LindsayClancy could not be held criminally responsible for their deaths as she wasn’t in her right mind due to postpartum psychosis.

Forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun—who evaluated Clancy for three days in April—testified that she killed her children as part of what he described as “altruistic filicide,” saying she wanted to kill herself and believed they would suffer without her, so she thought  killing them would allow them to be “together in heaven.” 

As the former labor and delivery nurse strangled them, she told the children, according to Heilbrun, “Go to God, baby. Go to God.”

Heilbrun also shared what Clancy told her husband after he returned home and asked what she had done. According to the psychologist, she replied, “I tried to kill myself.”

As for Patrick Clancy—who was out running errands when the deaths occured—he testified that his ex-wife struggled with mental health issues after Callan’s birth in 2023, according to CNN, and also sought treatment after Dawson was born in 2019.

However, he was never worried about the kids’ safety, as he didn’t believe she had “any intention” of actually hurting them.

While Clancy herself did not take the stand during her trial, excerpts from her journal were read for the jury, according to ABC 7, in which she’d written, “I want help. I want to be well.”

For more revelations from Clancy’s trial, keep reading.