Lindsay Clancy's Jury Heard Everything And Still Can't Decide

Sep 04, 12:00 PM
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The Lindsay Clancy jury at Plymouth Superior Court has heard more testimony and reviewed more evidence than most juries see in a career of service. Eighty-plus witnesses. Three hundred exhibits. Five weeks of testimony covering every detail of January 24, 2023—from the snowman Lindsay built with her children that afternoon to the 911 call Patrick made that night.

The jury indicated it could not reach a verdict. Judge Sullivan read the Tuey-Rodriguez charge—the instruction that tells jurors they are in the best position to decide and no future jury will have better evidence. They returned to deliberations and remained deadlocked.

At the center of the impasse are dueling psychiatric experts. The prosecution's team said Clancy was not psychotic. The defense's team said she was. Both examined the same woman, reviewed the same medical records, and testified under oath to opposite conclusions. The jury—regular people, no medical training—was left to choose.

Lindsay Clancy was on thirteen psychiatric medications at the time of the incident. She had been discharged from a psychiatric hospital three weeks earlier. Her defense conceded every physical fact and put the entire case on one question: was she criminally responsible?

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what is blocking this jury, what a deadlock would mean for Clancy's future, and what happens when the people the system depends on to deliver verdicts cannot deliver one.

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