Mistrial declared in the Lindsay Clancy case.
A Massachusetts jury could not reach a unanimous verdict after seven days of deliberations in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse charged with murdering her three young children.
Clancy admitted she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan in their Duxbury home in January 2023. Her defense argued she was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis and overmedication. Prosecutors said she planned the killings and knew right from wrong.
The jury reported being deadlocked multiple times. Reports indicate an 11-1 split, with one juror refusing to follow the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt. Judge William Sullivan said he would declare a mistrial and gave the defense one hour to seek an emergency appeal.
Clancy remains in custody. Prosecutors now decide whether to retry the case, pursue a plea, or drop the charges.
What should happen next?

The Lindsay Clancy jury has now gone five full days without reaching a verdict, and if this ends with a not-guilty verdict, drastically reduced charges or a hung jury, I think some of the women cheering Lindsay Clancy on need to consider exactly what argument they are making.

And yes, I am a woman.

That matters here, because women have spent generations fighting the ridiculous notion that our biology makes us too emotional, unstable or irrational to handle enormous responsibility.

Now apparently some women want to resurrect that argument themselves.
Clancy admits she strangled her three children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis left her unable to appreciate or control what she was doing. Prosecutors argue she was mentally ill but still understood right from wrong.

That is the legal question for the jury. What is NOT required is turning Lindsay Clancy into some kind of postpartum martyr.

Hundreds of supporters have appeared outside the courthouse wearing pink shirts ...