Lindsay Clancy’s attorney says he’s going to ask for case to be thrown out after hearing from jurors

Updated on: September 9, 2026 / 8:55 AM EDT / CBS News

Kevin Reddington, the lawyer for Lindsay Clancy, said on Wednesday he will ask for the case against his client to be thrown out after hearing from several jurors in the case.

Reddington told "CBS Mornings" he will present a motion to dismiss on Sept. 29 at a previously scheduled status hearing.

"It will be a motion to dismiss based on what's called double jeopardy grounds, because there's no … manifest necessity," Reddington said. "You have to have a manifest necessity to declare a mistrial for obvious reasons — the invested time that the jurors put into it, the court, the staff, the defendant, the prosecution, everybody."

Clancy is accused of murdering her three young children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, 2023. Her attorneys argued she was not criminally responsible because she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors said Clancy planned to strangle her children and knew right from wrong.

The highly publicized murder trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4 after the jurors could not come to a unanimous verdict after more than…

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