Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked as holdout juror refuses reasonable doubt instruction

Three children under age 6 were strangled to death in January 2023; defendant does not dispute killing them but claims postpartum psychosis negated criminal responsibility.

In a Duxbury, Massachusetts courtroom, a jury has spent six days wrestling with one of the law's most ancient and unresolved tensions — where illness ends and culpability begins. Lindsay Clancy, who does not deny strangling her three young children in January 2023, stands at the intersection of grief, medicine, and justice, as eleven jurors and one holdout reveal how differently human beings can interpret the same instruction to be reasonable. The case, stalled by a single dissenting voice, now forces the court to ask whether unanimity is still possible — and what it means when it is not.

Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked as holdout juror refuses reasonable doubt instruction

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