Lindsay Clancy murder trial jury resumes deliberations as mistrial potential grows: “End of the road here”

Updated on: September 3, 2026 / 9:16 AM EDT / CBS Boston

It appears the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts could end in a mistrial. The jury resumed deliberations for a sixth day Thursday, even though they've told the judge twice that they're deadlocked.

Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan sent the jurors back into deliberations Wednesday afternoon with one last instruction, known as a "dynamite charge." It's a last resort jury instruction to try to get a verdict. The nine women and three men have deliberated for more than 29 hours since getting the case last Thursday, August 27.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the strangulation deaths of her three children – 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan – in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.

"I think that we're at the end of the road here," said CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi. "I think it's very unlikely we're going to get a verdict. I think most likely the jury is going to come in today, deliberate for a few more hours, really just to appease the judge, then tell them, you know, tell him we're hopelessly deadlocked. At that point…

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