Lindsay Clancy’s Attorney Requests Investigation Into Holdout Juror

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney has asked the judge to conduct a “limited inquiry” into the holdout juror who wanted Clancy convicted of murdering her three children.

In a motion filed Sept. 18, lawyer Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to review the juror’s truthfulness on a questionnaire and alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations. He did not identify the juror.

Reddington also sought a court order requiring the juror’s cellphone carrier to provide call and text detail records and data-session logs from Aug. 27 through Sept. 4, covering each deliberation day, and directing the juror to submit his cellphone to a neutral examiner designated by the court.

Clancy was on trial after admitting to strangling her children—a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old, and an 8-month-old—with exercise bands in the basement of her Massachusetts home in January 2023. Her lawyers argued that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings and sought a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict.

On Sept. 4, Sullivan declared a mistrial in the murder trial after the jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Eleven of the 12 jurors favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility for the deaths of her children. The defense team asked Sullivan to remove the holdout juror, but he rejected the request.

This is a developing story that will be updated.