Lindsay Clancy’s attorney asks for not guilty finding after mistrial

Lindsay Clancy's attorney is pushing for her to be acquitted of triple-murder charges days after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the case.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed a renewed motion for a required finding of not guilty on Sept. 10, according to court records.

The motion asks the court to find Clancy not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, arguing that the prosecution's evidence did not sufficiently prove her guilty of the 2023 murders of her three children. He asked for the motion to be reviewed at Clancy's next court hearing on Sept. 29.

Clancy's murder trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4 after a jury of 12 could not unanimously agree on a verdict. A note from the foreperson during deliberations indicated they were split 11-1 in favor of finding her not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, also known as an insanity defense.

The 36-year-old is charged with murdering 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan at the family's Massachusetts home. While prosecutors allege the killings were deliberate, Reddington argues that she lacks criminal responsibility because she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.

Under Massachusetts law, a defendant can motion for a finding of…

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