Judge Denies Lindsay Clancy Bid to Block 2nd Murder Trial Over 3 Children
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 10
Judge Denies Lindsay Clancy Bid to Block 2nd Murder Trial Over 3 Children
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 10
Summary
A 17-page order made public Monday found the Sept. 4 mistrial was a "manifest necessity," letting Massachusetts retry Lindsay Clancy on murder indictments in the deaths of her three children.
Sullivan said repeated deadlock notes, a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, reinstruction on reasonable doubt and individual questioning of jurors all failed to break the impasse before he declared a mistrial.
The defense had argued double jeopardy barred a new trial because the court should have probed the foreperson's notes further or removed the lone holdout juror instead of ending deliberations.
Jurors later said 11 accepted Clancy's insanity defense and one favored first-degree murder, a split that outside attorney Randolph Rice said gives prosecutors a chance to refine their case for retrial.