The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial advised the judge Tuesday morning that it was unable to come back to a unanimous resolution firstly of a fourth day of deliberations.
Judge William Sullivan instructed the jurors to go back and proceed deliberations.
“I know that this was a long trial,” he stated. “I know there were over 80 witnesses, over 300 exhibits. But because of that, I’m going to ask you to go back out, keeping in mind all the instructions that I gave you. To go out and to continue your deliberations at this time.”
Clancy, carrying a beige sweater, didn’t seem to indicate any emotion. Her dad and mom and sister have been additionally current within the courtroom.
The prosecution and Clancy’s legal professional, Kevin Reddington, didn’t object.
Earlier Tuesday, Reddington had stated that he would “absolutely” go to trial once more if the decision ends in a hung jury.
“Maybe today’s the day; we’ll see. I don’t know,” stated Reddington, who’s representing Clancy in a homicide trial that may decide if she is criminally liable within the killings of her three younger youngsters.
The legal professional stated he has “really strong faith” within the jury, noting that members confirmed attentiveness all through the five-week trial.
When requested by a reporter what a hung jury would imply, Reddington responded: “Try it again.”
“Would you do the trial again if there’s a hung jury?” one other reporter requested.
“Absolutely,” Reddington stated.
The 12-person jury made up of 9 ladies and three males started deliberating Thursday afternoon. The jury had one query Friday when it requested the judge to overview capsule bottles and a knife that had been entered into proof.
The jury is weighing whether or not to convict Clancy of first-degree homicide after she was accused of utilizing train bands to strangle her three youngsters — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — within the basement of their Duxbury residence in January 2023. Her then-husband, who was working errands on the time, discovered her exterior beneath a second-story window following a suicide try that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Clancy’s legal professional has argued that she was in a state of postpartum psychosis and heard a voice on the time of the killings. According to Clancy’s authorized workforce, she had beforehand sought assist for psychological well being points.
Prosecutors, nevertheless, stated she was not in psychosis and deliberate the murders forward of time.
The jury additionally has the choice to convict her of lesser costs, together with second-degree homicide and manslaughter, or absolve her of the crime or deem her not responsible by lack of felony accountability. If the jury finds her not criminally accountable, that signifies that jurors imagine she couldn’t management her actions as a result of she was in psychosis.
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