Lindsay Clancy trial jury has “really difficult task” with “incredibly complicated​” case, expert says

Updated on: August 31, 2026 / 6:02 AM EDT / CBS Boston

The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial will resume their deliberations Monday morning in Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts.

They've discussed the case for more than 10 hours now, trying to decide if she's criminally responsible for killing her three young children in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023 or if she was too mentally ill to understand what she was doing.

"The jurors are going to have a really difficult task and they're in the midst of it," Laura Niemi, a psychologist and jury consultant, told CBS News Boston. "It's especially difficult because she reminds people of the perfect mother before the incident and so there's just a really stark contrast between that and the killings."

Niemi expects deliberations to take a while.

"I think it's incredibly complicated. I wouldn't infer anything about the timing. I wouldn't say that a long deliberation indicates that they're deadlocked. They have just an incredible amount of information to go through. It's emotionally difficult. It's really unlike a lot of cases that people ever encounter," she said.

"It's more than understanding like the medical evidence. It's more than kind of…

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