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Juror Says Lindsay Clancy Holdout Showed No Evidence Explaining Guilty Vote
Lone juror blocked verdict, insisting there was no evidence supporting not guilty by insanity. Jurors say holdout admitted reasonable doubts, preventing majority consensus and triggering mistrial.
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WJLA frames the Clancy mistrial as a maternal mental health turning point, while mainstream outlets focus on juror holdouts, evidence, and next legal steps.
Mistrial and holdout
A juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout who prevented a unanimous verdict did not show “any evidence explaining his vote,” as the Massachusetts mother faced first-degree murder charges for the 2023 deaths of her three young children.
“There wasn't a single piece of evidence or witness testimony”
Nick Dargie, one of the three men on the 12-person jury, told ABC News’ Aaron Katersky that “There wasn't a single piece of evidence or witness testimony” used by the holdout to justify conviction.
Clancy pleaded not guilty to three murder charges for the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and infant son Callan at the family's home in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, on Jan. 24, 2023.
Her five-week trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, after a week of deliberations, and jurors eventually yielded an 11-1 split in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said outside the courthouse on Sept. 4 that “our job is to set aside our feelings and focus solely on the facts,” adding that “Lindsay Clancy killed her three children.”
Defense, suicide watch
Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington told NBC News that Lindsay Clancy rejected internet conspiracy theories accusing her ex-husband Patrick of killing their three children and said she believes he has been unfairly targeted by online sleuths.
Reddington said Clancy is “not very good” and remains “suicidal,” adding that she is “on 24/7, one-on-one suicide watch,” while also saying “She’s strong. She has incredible family support.”
Reddington argued that although both sides admit Clancy killed the children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months old—her actions were driven by postpartum psychosis and auditory hallucinations that told her to carry out the murders.
He said prosecutors repeatedly pointed to the fact that Clancy never told anyone she was hearing voices before that night and hasn’t heard any since, while he told NBC News that Clancy said she struggled to “anyone who would listen,” including Patrick Clancy and her mother.
After Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court, Reddington said he sought a last-minute emergency stay to send jurors back to deliberations, but a justice at Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court swiftly denied it.
What happens next
After the mistrial, prosecutors faced multiple possible paths for Lindsay Clancy, including whether to retry her, pursue a plea deal or drop the case altogether, as Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4.
“Children were murdered and it's our job to seek justice”
USA TODAY reported that prosecutors must decide whether to retry Clancy before a new jury, and it noted that a spokesperson for Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz declined to comment on next steps while Cruz said “Children were murdered and it's our job to seek justice.”
Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington told CBS he was planning to present a motion to dismiss at the next hearing, and he said when asked about a potential plea deal, “It's up to Tim.”
The USA TODAY report also described legal possibilities if the case is not retried, including that civil proceedings could seek to have Clancy involuntarily or voluntarily committed to a state hospital, with attorney Heather Cucolo saying there has to be “clear and convincing evidence” that the individual has a mental illness and is a danger to themselves or others.
In a separate development tied to the broader public attention around Clancy’s trial, prosecutors said Illinois woman Corie Walsh, 40, was “very invested” in the nationally watched case and was texting friends about it just hours before her son Barrett was found dead in the basement of the family’s suburban Chicago home.