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Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked; Mistrial Looms in Maternal Killing Trial

A deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial risks a mistrial as jurors cannot agree on her criminal responsibility.

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Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, does not deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. [1] The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was expected to keep deliberating on Thursday to avoid a mistrial, despite being unable to agree on her criminal responsibility for killing her three children. [2] The jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy was sent home without a verdict for the second time after a sixth day of deliberations. [3] A deadlocked jury returned for the seventh day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Friday, September 3, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [4] Judge William Sullivan declined to remove a holdout juror despite defense requests, stating that removing a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking. [5] The Lindsay Clancy jury has been deadlocked for seven days, with a single juror refusing to follow instructions on reasonable doubt, as revealed by the jury's foreperson to Judge William Sullivan on 2026-09-02. [6] Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months. [7]
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  1. Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, does not deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. · Winnipeg Free Press
  2. The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was expected to keep deliberating on Thursday to avoid a mistrial, despite being unable to agree on her criminal responsibility for killing her three children. · Winnipeg Free Press
  3. The jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy was sent home without a verdict for the second time after a sixth day of deliberations. · The Independent
  4. A deadlocked jury returned for the seventh day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Friday, September 3, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. · Winnipeg Free Press
  5. Judge William Sullivan declined to remove a holdout juror despite defense requests, stating that removing a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking. · The Independent
  6. The Lindsay Clancy jury has been deadlocked for seven days, with a single juror refusing to follow instructions on reasonable doubt, as revealed by the jury's foreperson to Judge William Sullivan on 2026-09-02. · The Independent
  7. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months. · Winnipeg Free Press
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