Jurors reveal deadlock in Clancy mistrial: one holdout rejected insanity verdict

Lindsay Clancy killed her three children in the basement of their Massachusetts home; the case involves questions of her mental state at the time of the killings.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the fate of Lindsay Clancy — a mother who killed her three children while, eleven of twelve jurors believed, her mind had shattered under the weight of postpartum psychosis — came to rest on the conscience of a single man. After forty hours of deliberation, the near-unanimous jury could not compel unanimity, and a mistrial was declared, leaving unresolved the ancient question of where illness ends and culpability begins. The case now returns to the hands of prosecutors, who must decide whether to seek a second reckoning before a new jury, or to find another path t

Jurors reveal deadlock in Clancy mistrial: one holdout rejected insanity verdict

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