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Former US President Donald Trump expressed his disapproval of Lindsay Clancy's actions after a mistrial was declared in her murder trial. He stated that she "did a horrible, horrible thing" by killing her three young children and predicted that there will be consequences for her actions. The trial, which began in January 2023, ended in a hung jury with jurors unable to agree on a verdict despite over 37 hours of deliberation. A retrial seems likely, with the next hearing scheduled for September 29.
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President Trump has blasted Lindsay Clancy's killing of her three young children after the Massachusetts mother's murder trial collapsed.
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Speaking at the White House Friday, Trump said: 'It's a shame.
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I see what's happened and it looks like it's a hung jury.
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I think the judge has said it's going to be a mistrial, so there's going to be another trial.
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Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing.
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But you'll find out what the price to pay is.
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It's going to be mental institution or jail or something, but I guess they're going to go through another trial.'
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Clancy, 36, faces a retrial after a jury of nine women and three men were unable to agree on whether she was guilty of the murders or manslaughter of Cora, five, Dawson, three and 18-month-old Callan in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023.
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Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court on Friday afternoon.
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President Donald Trump has branded the Lindsay Clancy case a 'tragedy' and said that the killer mom did a 'horrible' thing
Lindsay Clancy is pictured in court Friday after a mistrial was declared.
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She will likely face being retried for the killings of her three young children later this year
Clancy admits strangling her children with exercise bands but denies it was murder.
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The former nurse said she was overmedicated while suffering from postpartum depression and that the cocktail of drugs she was prescribed brought on psychosis.
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She tried to kill herself by jumping out the upstairs window of the home she shared with ex-husband Patrick Clancy in the wake of the killings.
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The suicide attempt failed but left Clancy paralyzed and permanently confined to a wheelchair.
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Jurors spent more than 37 hours deliberating five-and-a-half weeks of evidence, with one refusing to side with the others late Thursday and early Friday.
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Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington sought an emergency order to try and force jurors to enter one final round of deliberations.
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Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz (left) has doubled down on his allegation that Clancy is a cold-blooded murdered.
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Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington (right) says it will be impossible to find an impartial jury to retry her
A hearing with a justice of Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court was held, but quickly ruled in favor of Judge Sullivan's original plan to declare a mistrial.
Prosecutor Tim Cruz has not yet confirmed that he plans to try Clancy again, but a retrial seems likely.
Speaking after the mistrial was declared, he maintained his view that Clancy's killings of her children were cold-blooded, calculated murder.
The next hearing in the case has been scheduled for September 29.
Prosecutors could opt to try Clancy on identical charges - first and second-degree murder, as well as manslaughter.
They could seek to retry her on less serious charges, likely manslaughter.
They may also opt to have a judge decide the verdict themselves, rather than put the case to a jury again.
Clancy's trial attracted international attention.
On Friday afternoon, Reddington suggested it would be impossible to find an impartial panel of jurors to try a case that has attracted international attention.
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