Lindsay Clancy jury appears ‘exasperated’ as single juror called out

There's one thing legal experts can agree on after a wild development in the high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy: prosecutors' burden of proof just got much heavier.

Jurors have been deadlocked for days as they weigh the evidence against Clancy, a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children in 2023. The jury must decide whether Clancy is criminally responsible for their deaths or whether she is not guilty because she was suffering from mental illness at the time.

The week's tensions came to a head on Sept. 3, when the jury foreperson complained to the judge in the case that one of the 12 jurors was refusing to consider reasonable doubt as required by law, according to Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington.

Tensions rose when Reddington then asked Judge William Sullivan to remove the holdout juror.

“The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that jury that has been working for a week, now saying there is one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you have given him or her on reasonable doubt,” Reddington said. "If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just…

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