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PLYMOUTH, MA − Lindsay Clancy's case returns to a Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday for a consequential hearing that will shed light on the next steps in the case.
\n\nThe court date follows a high-profile mistrial in early September and a flurry of legal maneuverings by her defense team. Clancy is accused of killing her three young children.
\n\nProsecutors have not yet said whether they intend to retry Clancy for first-degree murder, lower the charges or drop the case altogether. Meanwhile, Clancy's defense team is working to prevent a retrial and launch an investigation into the holdout juror.
\n\nProsecutors alleged Clancy, 36, deliberately sent her husband out on errands and then strangled her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months – with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home while he was gone. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington did not deny that she killed her children in January 2023, but argued she can't be held criminally responsible, Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense, because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.
\n\nAfter more than 38 hours of deliberations, the jury remained deadlocked 11 to 1, and Clancy's closely watched triple murder…
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