Lindsay Clancy jury says it’s still deadlocked, judge gives ‘dynamite instruction’

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Jurors in the triple murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy must continue deliberations after the judge made a last ditch attempt to break their deadlock on Sept. 2.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months – at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home. The jury began deliberating on Aug. 27 after hearing weeks of testimony from more than 80 witnesses.

Around 10 a.m. ET on Sept. 1, the group of nine women and three men notified Judge William Sullivan they have not been able to reach a unanimous decision. Sullivan urged them to continue deliberating, and they did so until 3:30 p.m. ET when they asked to leave early for the day.

But after deliberating until nearly 2:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 2, the jury informed Sullivan that they were still at an impasse. Sullivan gave them what's known as a Tuey-Rodriguez charge, a special set of instructions…

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