Lindsay Clancy murder trial ends in dramatic deadlock – what comes next?

Lindsay Clancy’s five-week murder trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict, leaving prosecutors and defense lawyers facing the possibility of a second trial.

The district attorney must now decide whether to retry the case. The judge, lawyers and millions who followed the proceedings are back where they started after hours of deliberation produced no verdict.

The case has drawn intense attention in the United States and around the world. Although the trial has ended for now, the legal dispute is not over, and a new trial could prolong the proceedings and the painful public spectacle surrounding the deaths of Clancy’s three children.