Donald Trump responds to lawyer's plea to pardon Lindsay Clancy

Triple murderer Lindsay Clancy will categorically not be getting a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

Incase you've missed this heartbreaking criminal case, the mum-of-three fatally strangled each of her children (Cora, Callan and Dawson) in their Massachusetts home in 2023.

Clancy's defence claimed she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time, but the jury could not come to a unanimous decision on whether this held any ground.

In the aftermath of the hung jury, her lawyer Kevin Reddington ventured onto the Good Morning America sofa with a special message for Trump, even though the POTUS commands no jurisdiction across state charges.

When asked by the hosts what was next for his charge following the mistrial, Reddington replied: "Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she's been through – and consider a pardon."

Lindsay Clancy's upsetting murder trial resulted in a hung jury (Greg Derr/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Now, per The New York Post, Trump has come back with an official rebuttal; informing the media that Clancy's situation is not a 'federal one' and therefore he wields no power.

​"It's a very sad situation," he said. "I certainly heard that, but look, it's very sad. There is no winner there. There's no win no matter what you do, three children are dead. ​I hope they can work something out. That's something they have to work out."

Reddington deepened his initial sentiment while appearing on Boston's WBZ-TV too, although the 75-year-old did concede that Trump's legal authority is non-existent here.

"If President Trump feels that this is a case that warrants that type of intervention from the executive branch, if you will — even though, legally, it's not a federal case — he certainly has an awful lot of clout," he mused.

"I'm sure that, were he to hypothetically reach out to [District Attorney] Tim Cruz, you know, they're both Republicans, and I don't know, maybe that will be something that Tim would listen to and consider. I think any type of help that we can get is helpful."

Meanwhile, the jury's foreman sat down for a chat with NBC 10 Boston after the trial was waved off.

As it happens, the sole 'holdout' juror did infact express a hint of reasonable doubt, which the remaining 11 jurors believed was enough to get Clancy off a homicidal sentencing by way of insanity.

"He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms. I was so excited," she recalled.

"There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one and then he said, 'But I'm still not going say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity.'"