Lindsay Clancy judge declares a mistrial after the state’s top court denies defense’s appeal

Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial ended in a mistrial Friday, following a last-minute appeal by her attorney to prevent the outcome after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

The jury weighing Clancy’s fate was sent back twice to deliberate but said that “with a heavy heart” it was ultimately unable to reach a verdict after seven days of deliberations.

With the deadlock, Judge William Sullivan told the court he would declare a mistrial in the case, prompting Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, to announce his intent to appeal to Massachusetts’ top court, an effort which ultimately failed.

The jury was tasked with determining whether Clancy, 36, was criminally responsible in the 2023 deaths of her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — or whether she was not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility because of mental illness.

Sullivan gave Reddington an hour for his appeal Friday morning. The hour stretched into two before Reddington’s associate, Dana Goldblatt, was able to ask a state Supreme Judicial Court judge on a Zoom call to remove a holdout juror from the panel.

Goldblatt argued that they believe this juror is refusing to “follow what…

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