Lindsay Clancy's lawyer shares 'most chilling' detail of case as she reappears in court after mistrial
Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide and child death which some readers may find distressing.
Lindsay Clancy is back in court for the first time since her murder trial ended with the jurors unable to come to a definitive conclusion about her guilt.
The 36-year-old ended up with a hung jury, and a mistrial was declared, leading to her defence lawyer, Kevin Reddington, to Call for an investigation into the holdout juror who wanted to find Clancy guilty of murder.
The trial into Clancy’s case saw almost 40 hours of jury deliberations, but couldn’t determine her guilt after the murders of her three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan in January 2023.
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During her trial, her legal team argued that the former nurse should not be held legally responsible as she was suffering from post-partum psychosis at the time of the killings.
The prosecution argued that she knew what she was doing and premeditated their deaths.
She pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
Today, Clancy appeared in court, where state lawyers could attempt to retry her if they so choose.
The hearing has seen Reddington argue that the court should overrule the mistrial verdict and simply find her not guilty.
He also called out what he says is an important distinction within the case, where he said Clancy admitting she killed the children versus admitting she was criminally responsible are two different things.
He said to the judge: "Where's the evidence that she did this?"
He then claimed: "This entire case is based on speculation.”
During his argument, Reddington made a chilling admission about what happened after the children were killed.
He called it ‘most chilling’ that Clancy had to be told the events of the murders after she came out of her coma.
He asked why she would need to be told what happened if she was able to remember it.
He then said there was no evidence that she had admitted to the killings.
The aftermath of the case has been plagued with controversy too, with many blaming the one holdout juror for her mistrial.
This led to Judge William Sullivan to seal the names of the jurors indefinitely, writing: “Based on the circumstances of this trial and the fact that the case continues to receive daily, divisive attention in Massachusetts and beyond, the Court concludes that there is a real and present ‘risk of [personal] harm to the jurors [and] to the integrity of their service’.”
Ray Marcel, from the Fugitive TV streaming series, said he’d spoken to 'Michael', and revealed all to NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo.
Marcel said that Michael told him he didn’t have a moment where he thought Clancy was not guilty.
“He felt that she was sane when she did it,” Marcel said.
“He said, from day one, that he always felt that she was guilty, and he never displayed or said anything about reasonable doubt.”
He said per NewsNation: “I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.
“Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
Britt Jones