Watch: What is a mistrial and what does it mean for Lindsay Clancy?
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- A judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s case after the trial ended without a verdict.
- The decision followed Judge William Sullivan’s rejection of the defence team’s emergency appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court.
The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the US mother accused of murdering her three children, has ended without a verdict after the judge declared a mistrial.
Judge William Sullivan made the declaration after rejecting an emergency appeal from Clancy’s defence team, which had asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to intervene.
BBC reporter Ione Wells explains what a mistrial means and what could happen next in the case.
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