Jury Deadlock Triggers Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy Child Murder Case
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, after jurors deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. The outcome leaves prosecutors weighing whether to retry the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, while defense attorneys prepare to file for an outright acquittal ahead of a scheduled Sept. 29 status hearing.
Deadlocked Jury Leaves Defendant in Psychiatric Custody Ahead of September Hearing
Clancy remains held at a psychiatric hospital, where she has been retained while facing charges for the 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children at their home south of Boston. She does not deny killing her children, but contends that severe postpartum psychosis drove her actions before she jumped from a second-story window in a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed from the waist down. During the Sept. 29 hearing in Plymouth, defense attorney Kevin Reddington plans to petition the court to declare Clancy not guilty, while state prosecutors determine whether to schedule a second trial, offer a plea agreement, or dismiss the case.
The seven-day jury impasse followed weeks of conflicting expert testimony regarding Clancy’s post-pregnancy psychiatric health during one of the state’s most high-profile trials involving maternal mental health defense claims.
