Crime07 September, 20262 min read
Kevin Reddington Urges Trump Pardon After Lindsay Clancy Hung Jury in Duxbury Murder Case
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Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended in a hung jury, resulting in a mistrial. Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Clancy after the mistrial.
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Hung Jury, Next Steps
Lindsay Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington said he is hopeful for an agreement between the defense and the district attorney after Clancy’s trial ended last week in a hung jury.
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.
Reddington said he hopes President Donald Trump would consider a pardon, telling “Good Morning America,” “Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady and the person she is, what she's been through, and consider a pardon,” while the ABC News report said Clancy is not eligible for a presidential pardon because her case involved state offenses in Massachusetts.
The mistrial was declared on Sept. 4 after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following over a week of deliberations, and Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz declined to announce an immediate decision about retrying Clancy, saying outside the courthouse, “our job is to set aside our feelings and focus solely on the facts.”
Jurors Describe the Deadlock
In interviews following the mistrial, jurors described a panel that was nearly ready to enter a verdict but deadlocked over a lone holdout who would not agree to a not guilty outcome. NBC10 Boston’s Sue O’Connell reported that jury foreperson Roni Carlson said the holdout “admitted he had reasonable doubt,” and then added, “But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity.”
The BBC reported that the foreperson said the holdout juror “admitted he had reasonable doubt” but “wouldn't agree to a not guilty verdict,” and that the jury’s deliberations included “lots of crying” and “lots of tears and then hugging.” Jurors also said they argued and fought during deliberations, with one juror saying the prosecution did not have a “figurative smoking gun,” and another describing how the holdout disregarded information about Clancy’s toxicology reports.
Mental Health, Confinement
Even with the case unresolved, the next legal and clinical steps described in coverage focus on Clancy’s return to psychiatric care and the possibility of long confinement. NewsNation said Clancy will return to a state psychiatric facility after the mistrial and that she will resume psychiatric care at Tewksbury Hospital, where she has been held for more than three years.
The report said that under Massachusetts law, if Clancy were found not criminally responsible, she could undergo up to 40 days of psychiatric observation before a judge determines whether she should be involuntarily committed, initially for six months and then in renewable one-year increments. NewsNation also quoted retired Massachusetts Judge Jack Lu saying Clancy could be placed in a maximum security mental health facility and could remain institutionalized for “a number of years minimum,” and it described how the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office could challenge a discharge recommendation in court.