PLYMOUTH, Mass. – The decide in Lindsay Clancy’s charming homicide trial has urged the jury to proceed deliberating after they despatched out a second observe asserting they’re deadlocked.
The jurors – 9 ladies and three males – introduced for the second time Wednesday that they had been at an deadlock about whether or not to convict the postpartum mother of first-degree homicide for strangling her three younger youngsters.
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Plymouth Choose William Sullivan learn the so-called “Tuey-Rodriguez” cost, nicknamed the “Dynamite Cost” by native jurists, strongly encouraging them to maintain working to attempt to attain a consensus.
The jurors first instructed the decide they couldn’t attain a unanimous verdict in a observe Tuesday.
At subject is whether or not the 36-year-old Duxbury mother must be held criminally liable for killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan on Jan. 24, 2023, earlier than she tried to take her personal life.
Clancy desires a jury to seek out her not responsible by cause of madness primarily based on her declare she was affected by extreme postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice telling her to hold out the heinous acts.
Prosecutors say she wasn’t in psychosis on the time, claiming that she fastidiously deliberate and executed the crimes.
Each side rested their circumstances after a complete of 21 days of testimony, which started with Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, taking the stand as the primary witness final month.
Patrick Clancy — who has since moved to New York Metropolis and remarried infertility specialist Rachel Danis — instructed jurors that Lindsay Clancy repeatedly sought assist for her worsening psychological state within the months resulting in the killings.
She started seeing a psychiatrist, referred to as a suicide hotline twice, checked herself right into a psychological establishment for 5 days and sought assist from two perinatal clinics – however nonetheless, she “saved getting worse and worse,” Patrick Clancy testified, and stated Lindsay Clancy had even opened as much as him about having ideas of harming the youngsters.
Lindsay Clancy’s “massive spiral” was additional fueled, in line with Patrick Clancy and Reddington, by not less than 13 psychiatric drugs prescribed to her by 5 separate suppliers from November 2022 up till a day earlier than the murders, together with medicine for anxiousness, melancholy, sleep problems and anti-psychotic meds.
Patrick Clancy hauntingly recalled returning to the household’s house to seek out Lindsay Clancy within the yard with slits on her wrists and throat after plunging from a second-story window — earlier than racing inside and discovering his three kids lifeless within the basement.
“She killed the youngsters,” the daddy could possibly be heard screaming throughout the 911 name performed for jurors.
Lindsay Clancy, who attended the trial in a wheelchair after changing into paralyzed from the waist down, repeatedly broke down in tears throughout the harrowing testimony.
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