The fifth day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial ended with no verdict on Sept. 2 as jurors reiterated they remained at an impasse.
Judge William Sullivan encouraged the deadlocked jury to dive deeper into opposing views and ordered discussions to resume at the Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the morning of Sept. 3.
Sullivan told the jury on Sept. 2 that nobody knows whether a new group of people would be “more intelligent, more impartial or more competent to decide it” than the jury is.
The jury first revealed on Sept. 1 that they were having issues reaching a unanimous decision.
Clancy, 36, is accused of killing her three young children while her now-ex-husband was running errands in January 2023.
The former labor and delivery nurse faces three counts of first-degree murder, one for each child: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan.
Jurors have the option to consider second-degree murder or manslaughter charges instead.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington urged jurors in his closing arguments on Aug. 27 to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, alleging she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis when she killed her children in the basement of their suburban home in the Boston area.
Clancy admitted to strangling her kids with exercise bands, slicing her wrists and neck with a knife, and jumping out of a window in a failed suicide attempt, which left her paralyzed.
In this video screen image, Lindsay Clancy with a surgical mask over her face in a hospital appears during her arraignment on charges regarding her three children’s deaths at Plymouth District Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Feb. 7, 2023. (David Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
Clancy faces life in prison with no possibility of parole if she is convicted on any of the first-degree murder charges she faces.
Testimony in the trial lasted five weeks before the case was handed over to the jury to decide the mother’s fate.
The prosecution’s first witness was Clancy’s now-ex-husband, Patrick, who said his wife confessed to having thoughts of suicide and harming their children months before the incident.
He testified that one week after the killings, his wife allegedly confessed that “she heard a man’s voice telling her that if she didn’t do it now, she would lose her chance or something like that.”
Before the killings, Clancy was prescribed medications and checked into a psychiatric hospital.
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