Lindsay Clancy jury sent home again without verdict in murder trial

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home Thursday without a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations, with jurors due back in court on Friday.

Clancy’s defense lawyer told the judge that the jury foreperson had written a note saying one juror would not follow the court’s instructions on reasonable doubt. That juror was allegedly holding up a decision.

Before dismissing the panel, the judge rejected the defense request to remove the juror after heated discussions among the parties. The jury must decide whether Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, bears criminal responsibility for the deaths of her three children.

Clancy does not deny strangling Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, aged five, three and eight months, in the basement of the family home in 2023 before trying to take her own life. Her lawyer says postpartum psychosis drove her actions. Prosecutors argue she understood what she was doing.

The trial has attracted intense public interest, with reporters and spectators filling the courtroom as proceedings were livestreamed. It has also divided public opinion over Clancy’s culpability and the question of maternal mental health after childbirth.