What will happen if Lindsay Clancy jury can’t decide on verdict

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The Lindsay Clancy trial may be headed for a mistrial if jurors remain deadlocked in the Massachusetts mother’s murder trial.

After more than 17 hours of deliberations, jurors indicated that they had been unable to reach a unanimous verdict on Sept. 1. Although Judge William Sullivan urged them to continue trying, it remains to be seen whether the high-profile trial will return a verdict.

Clancy, 36, is facing three counts of murder for the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home by sending her husband on errands then strangling the children with exercise bands while he was gone. Afterward, she cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.

Clancy is arguing that she is not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility because she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis – more commonly known as an insanity…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/