Lindsay Clancy’s defense team is addressing the state of the mom’s high-profile murder case after a judge declared a mistrial.
“Well, obviously this is not a time for gloating or bragging, expressing victory. It’s a very sad case,” Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington told reporters on Friday, September 4, after the judge declared a mistrial amid a deadlocked 11-1 jury. “[Plymouth County District Attorney] Cruz knows that he was crushed, that he doesn’t have a case, he doesn’t have to stand here and say that he’s advocating on behalf of the victims and then look down to see what their names are.”
Reddington continued, “I’m representing a woman who is a fantastic, wonderful individual. This woman is so brave; so awesome. Every day she came into this court house, stood tall — no pun intended, the poor thing is in a wheelchair as we all know for the rest of her life — sat there through seven weeks of a trial where nobody had anything bad to say about her except for the two prosecutors and apparently Tim Cruz.”
Clancy, 36, was on trial for the murder of her three children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Clancy admitted to fatally strangling her three kids on January 2023 before she attempted suicide by jumping out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.
Clancy was charged with three counts of murder in a criminal trial that began in July. Her defense team argues that she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder before and at the time of the killings, claiming she was not able to differentiate right from wrong and therefore should not be held criminally responsible for her children’s deaths.
“It’s not right what she had to go through, because she grieves the loss of those three children, Cora, Dawson and Callan, because I know their names. I don’t have to look down on a piece of paper and find out what their names are,” Reddington said, again referring to the district attorney. “Every time somebody had something to say about those young kids, Lindsay would smile and say, ‘I’m glad.’ She wants them to be remembered.”
Clancy was facing the possibility of life in prison without the possibility of parole. If she had been acquitted, she would likely have been sent to live in a secure state mental health facility. The jury deliberated for six days and more than 30 hours but could not reach a unanimous decision after one male juror broke with the rest of the group.
Reddington thanked the members of the jury for their service — minus one.
“They know that they were robbed … he stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors who were so attentive … so wonderful … you could see how defeated they were sitting there,” he said of the lone juror who did not agree with the rest. “I have a funny feeling they would have gone on for another week. So I hope that guy can sleep at night.”
Reddington added that Clancy was “not good” following the mistrial, and neither are her parents.
“Lindsay is very very very strong, she is a very very intelligent young woman, very emotionally invested and just a classic example of a tragic … her life is a tragedy,” he said.
Another hearing has been scheduled for September 29 as the future of the case remains unclear.
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