If Lindsay Clancy’s Jury Can’t Agree, One Man Decides Whether She’s Tried All Over Again

03 Sep 2026, 20:33 by Jerome London · Thought Catalog

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Updated 7 minutes ago, September 3, 2026

Lindsay Clancy’s jury has deadlocked twice in five days. If they never agree, the choice to make her stand trial again falls to one prosecutor, and the lawyers who’ve faced him say he’ll say yes without blinking.

Judge William Sullivan stands at the bench during the sixth day of jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Sept. 3, 2026. Photo by USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial has spent five days without reaching a verdict and has twice told the judge it’s deadlocked. If they can’t agree, Judge William Sullivan declares a mistrial, and Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s office decides whether to put her through it all a second time.

Cruz has run the office since 2001, built a career on having “aggressively prosecuted crime,” and is currently running unopposed. Lawyers who’ve gone up against him don’t expect him to walk away.

Lindsay Clancy in the courtroom at Plymouth Superior Courthouse on Sept. 1, 2026, as jurors file in after telling Judge William Sullivan they could not reach a verdict. Photo by USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect.

“Absolutely,” said Rosemary Scapicchio, a defense attorney who has faced Cruz’s office. “I believe with every fiber of my being he would do it again. He is not deterred by anything that happened in that courtroom.”

Clancy’s own attorney, Kevin Reddington, agrees. “Tim Cruz will never drop it, that’s for sure,” he told reporters outside the courthouse.

Prosecutors say Clancy, 36, sent her husband out on errands and then strangled her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. She then cut her own wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.

A packed courtroom at Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts fills with spectators and credentialed press members as the Lindsay Clancy jury continues deliberations on Sept. 3, 2026. Photo by Greg Derr / The Patriot Ledger via Reuters.

She pleaded not guilty. Reddington doesn’t deny she killed the children but argues she can’t be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, Massachusetts’ version of the insanity defense.

Days after the killings, while Clancy was still being treated for her injuries, Cruz pledged she’d be charged with murder “as soon as she is able.” Jurors were sent back to keep deliberating on Sept. 3.

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