Lindsay Clancy Jury Is Split 11-1, Defense Attorney Says: ‘I Kicked the S–t Out of’ Prosecution’s Case

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, told reporters he wanted to avoid a mistrial after revealing that one juror was agains the other 11

NEED TO KNOW

• Kevin Reddington said he hoped a mistrial would be avoided in Lindsay Clancy’s case despite a deadlocked jury
• Reddington claimed that one juror was apparently holding up proceedings
• Reddington told the court he wants the single juror removed

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney said he did not want a mistrial ruling following a tense courtroom exchange, claiming that a single juror was holding up proceedings.

Addressing reporters outside the courthouse on Thursday, Sept. 3, Reddington said 11 jurors had seemingly reached a decision while one was not listening to the judge’s instructions.

“There’s a person who has doubt but will not listen to the judge’s instruction,” Reddington said. “I don’t want a mistrial. Why would I want a mistrial? I kicked the s–t out of their case.”

Reddington did not specify how the 11 jurors he referenced would vote.

He said that the single juror has been identified and that there will be an inquiry in court Friday morning.

Reddington addressed the media after a sixth day of deliberations in Clancy’s closely watched trial ended without a verdict.

The jury was sent home for the day after Judge William Sullivan reminded the jurors about the law and reasonable doubt. They will return Friday at 9 a.m.

On Thursday afternoon, a note from the jury sparked an extended, testy sidebar involving the attorneys, Sullivan and Clancy herself.

Following the sidebar, jurors were sent back to continue deliberating and Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, addressed the court.

Reddington revealed that a note from the jury foreperson said that one juror “refuses to listen to the law.”

Clancy, who is charged with first-degree murder, does not deny that she killed her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — by strangling them in their Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023 before jumping out of a second-story window.

But Reddington has argued that she was in a state of psychosis and suffering from overmedication, thus making her not criminally responsible for murder.

Prior to Thursday’s courtroom drama, the jury twice told Sullivan that it was deadlocked and unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

On Wednesday, Sullivan gave the jury a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, sometimes known as a dynamite charge, with the hope of encouraging the seemingly entrenched jury to reach a verdict.

The issuance of that instruction means the chances of a mistrial loom large if the jury remains deadlocked.

In his closing arguments, Reddington claimed his client was failed by medical providers after she sought help for her postpartum mental health issues.

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Prosecutors argued Clancy was not in a psychotic state when she killed the children and that the killings were deliberate.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said Clancy was depressed and that she “didn’t want to try anymore.”

“Those kids were her protective factor,” Sprague said. “Those kids were keeping her from ending her misery. So she had to remove the protective factor.”