Lindsay Clancy loses bids to dismiss murder charges and question ‘holdout juror’

The judge who oversaw the first Lindsay Clancy murder trial has denied two more of her requests, including to dismiss the three murder indictments against her.

Judge William Sullivan also denied Clancy’s motion to question the so-called holdout juror in the trial and examine court records related to the juror’s service. And the judge handed the prosecution a loss, rejecting its bid to prevent lawyers from freely discussing the case with the media.

The issues were argued at a testy hearing last week, with another one on the books for next week — a date for the retrial could be set then.

Sullivan has already denied Clancy’s request to find her not guilty, and another about examining evidence about the lone juror voting to convict her before the mistrial was declared.

Clancy has been facing three charges of first-degree murder over the deaths of her three young children. At her trial, her team didn’t deny that she killed the children before attempting suicide, but argued she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time.

Following the mistrial, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office hasn’t announced if they intend to proceed with retrying Clancy. Asked about it during last…

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