As Lindsay Clancy mistrial fears grow, attention turns to this man

As jury deliberations drag on in Lindsay Clancy's triple murder trial, a key decision could rest with a longtime district attorney in the event of a mistrial.

After five days of deliberations, no verdict has been reached. If the deadlocked jury can't come to a consensus, the judge will declare a mistrial and it will be up to Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz's office to decide whether to retry the case.

Legal observers say the district attorney, who touts that he has "aggressively prosecuted crime," almost certainly would retry the case.

"Absolutely," said Rosemary Scapicchio, a defense attorney who has represented clients prosecuted by Cruz's office. "I believe with every fiber of my being he would do it again. He is not deterred by anything that happened in that courtroom."

Prosecutors allege Clancy, 36, planned the killings by sending her husband out on errands and then strangling 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 then cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.

While Clancy was still being treated for…

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