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· collected 2026-09-05 · by Bethan Sexton, Sophie Gable
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Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband has spoken out after her case was declared a mistrial.
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Patrick Clancy issued a statement through his attorney expressing gratitude for those involved with the trial.
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His ex-wife was facing charges over the deaths of their three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and baby Callan, eight months, before the trial collapsed earlier today.
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'Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment, and their perseverance,' his lawyer David Meier said.
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The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure.
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The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful for Patrick, for his family, and for all us.
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It comes two days after Patrick was seen stepping out with his new wife, Rachel Danis, in New York City while the jury remained locked in tense deliberations.
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The Daily Mail previously revealed that Patrick has relocated to a Midtown Manhattan high-rise with his new wife, who is a fertility specialist and doctor.
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Public records show Patrick moved from suburban Massachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023, four months after the deaths of his children.
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Lindsay Clancy's case was declared a mistrial on Friday afternoon after a grueling five-week trial
Patrick Clancy released a statement after the mistrial, confessing that the loss of his children was 'something from which he will never recover'
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Patrick and his new wife, Rachel, were seen smiling in New York City just two days before the jury declared a mistrial in the case
During the trial, Patrick was forced to revisit the tragedy that struck his family's home in the affluent Boston suburb of Duxbury on January 24, 2023, when his former wife strangled their three children using exercise bands.
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Judge William Sullivan announced a mistrial at a court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shortly before 2.30pm ET Friday after an emergency appeal by Lindsay's attorney, Kevin Reddington, failed.
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A mistrial means the prosecution will have the opportunity to try Lindsay again.
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The trial will have to start over from jury selection.
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The jury deliberated for almost 40 hours after hearing five weeks of evidence, but one juror was not convinced that Lindsay should be acquitted.
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A second trial would not violate Lindsay's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy, which protects citizens from being punished twice for the same crime.
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The Constitution of the United States prevents the government from trying a person again for the same crime after they have already been found innocent or guilty.
But because Lindsay's first trial has resulted in a deadlock, the prosecution is allowed to charge her a second time.
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It is unclear whether the prosecution will move forward with a second trial.
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Lindsay is likely going to be kept institutionalized in the interim while a decision is made.
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Patrick, Lindsay's husband, filed a suit against her doctors.
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He is shown with the children, Cora, Dawson and baby Callan
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The Daily Mail previously revealed that Patrick relocated from suburban Massachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023
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Dr Rachel Danis works as a fertility specialist in New York
Lindsay admits killing her children and attempting to take her own life in 2023, but says she did so while overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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A hearing to decide what to do next will take place September 29.
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District Attorney Tim Cruz maintained Lindsay's killing of her children was cold-blooded murder, but he refused to be drawn into whether he would push for a retrial and said the decision was yet to be made.
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Prosecutors now face several options, including retrying Lindsay on reduced charges or seeking a verdict decided by a judge rather than jurors.
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The jury of nine women and three men sent four notes to the judge this week saying they had been unable to reach a verdict.
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It emerged on Thursday that 11 of the 12 jurors had reached the same verdict, but a twelfth holdout refused to follow them.
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Reddington filed an appeal claiming this unidentified juror was biased towards people with mental disabilities.
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The final note sent by jurors on Friday morning read: 'It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.'
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The previous family life of Patrick Clancy came crashing down in 2023 when his now ex-wife Lindsay strangled their three children to death then tried to take her own life
Couple Patrick Clancy, 38, and Rachel Danis, 37, are pictured above together in the fall of 2025
Friday's Hail Mary motion was put before Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt around 2pm ET.
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The brief hearing took place over Zoom, with Wendlandt issuing her ruling rejecting the appeal shortly afterward.
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A few moments before the mistrial was declared, Reddington suggested to Judge Sullivan that he still had the power to send the jury back out to deliberate again, one final time.
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During the sensational five weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
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The mistrial was declared hours as tensions between Reddington and Judge Sullivan boiled over.
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That came after Reddington accused Sullivan of giving a 'soft' instruction to jurors about how to interpret the concept of reasonable doubt.
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Before the court adjourned, Reddington spoke to the judge and demanded that 'one juror' who is 'refusing to listen to the law' be removed from the panel.
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The prosecutors argued against this, and the judge did not make a ruling.
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Both Patrick and Lindsay have filed separate lawsuits against several of her medical providers, alleging that they overmedicated her while treating her for postpartum mental health issues.
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Patrick Clancy gave evidence in support of ex-wife Lindsay during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court
Lindsay Clancy was paralyzed from the waist down following her suicide attempt
Patrick has publicly supported his ex-wife from the start and urged the public to 'find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have'.
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