The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial has sparked outrage from readers of The Post. Several writers express their frustration that one juror's holdout prevented a unanimous guilty verdict, despite Clancy's confession to murdering her three children. Key figures mentioned include Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz and defense attorney Kevin Reddington, who is accused of slandering the juror and DA outside the courthouse. Readers call for Clancy to be retried and held accountable for her actions, with some suggesting she should spend the rest of her life in prison or a mental health facility.
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Story summary
Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former nurse from Massachusetts, is on trial for the murder of her three young children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. The children were found dead in their family's basement in January 2023. Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, arguing that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.
During the five-week trial, prosecutors presented evidence from 85 witnesses, including psychologists and psychiatrists who offered differing conclusions about Clancy's mental state when the children died. Clancy's defense team argued that she was hallucinating a voice that told her to kill the children, but an expert witness testified that he did not believe this account.
The trial has been marked by dramatic moments, including a supporter of Clancy being arrested outside the court for attempting to film jurors as they left the courtroom. The jury is now deliberating with several options before them: not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and manslaughter.
The case has also sparked debate about the adequacy of laws surrounding postpartum psychosis and maternal mental health. Many supporters of Clancy have gathered outside the courtroom, arguing that new mothers need more help and support in navigating their mental health concerns. The trial is expected to be a lengthy and complex one, with many factors at play.
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The Issue: The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ending in a mistrial due to one juror’s holdout.
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trial → end → holdout
Have Americans lost all morality, righteousness, compassion and sanity (“Held up by holdout,” Sept. 4)?
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Americans → lose → holdout
How could the jury not come to a unanimous decision that Lindsay Clancy is guilty?
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Clancy → come → decision
She confessed.
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She → confess → ?
Case closed.
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Case → close → ?
I commend the one holdout for standing his ground.
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I → commend → ground
Hopefully, all the woke people come to their senses next time around.
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people → come → senses
I bet they believe OJ Simpson was innocent.
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Simpson → bet → ?
Monroe, NJ
Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy deserve better.
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Monroe → deserve → better
Lindsay’s psychosis conveniently showed up the day of the murders.
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psychosis → show → murders
At no other time in her many interactions with medical professionals did it occur.
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it → occur → professionals
Not only does evidence point to her committing the crime, she admitted she did it.
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she → point → it
Try her again and put her away so she cannot harm any other children.
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she → try → children
Clancy admitted to murdering her three children.
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Clancy → admit → children
A greater atrocity is difficult to even imagine.
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atrocity → imagine → ?
For those who think Clancy should get off easier: When will you be having her over your house to babysit your children?
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you → think → children
She murdered her three innocent children.
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She → murder → children
I don’t care how crazy she is or is pretending to be, she killed her kids.
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she → care → kids
She should rot in a jail cell for the rest of her life.
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She → rot → life
To the jury made mostly of morons who obviously left school after 5th grade: What if these were your grandchildren?
Peter Sulzicki
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these → make → grade
It’s horrible that The Post’s front page places blame on one juror for throwing Clancy’s trial into chaos.
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page → ’ → chaos
He has heard all the evidence and sees Lindsay as guilty.
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He → hear → Lindsay
He is doing his duty as a juror by giving a verdict befitting the crime.
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He → do → crime
Apparently justice now means caving in to an angry mob of sympathizers and no justice for the innocent children killed by their own mother?
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justice → mean → mother
Are you setting the precedent for future jurors in future trials to call their verdict based out of fear of going against others?
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jurors → set → others
That’s not jury duty, it’s intimidation.
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it → ’ → ?
After he was unable to get his accused killer client off the hook because of one brave juror, Kevin Reddington stooped to calling that juror a liar.
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Reddington → get → juror
Then, outside the courthouse, this big shot slandered Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz for supposedly not knowing the names of Clancy’s murdered children.
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shot → slander → children
Reddington, who told the world he sees Clancy as a daughter, put a target on the backs of that juror and DA.
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he → tell → juror
He should be hit with ethics charges, if not two civil defamation lawsuits.
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He → hit → charges
If I was a little kid and my mom thought it was OK for a mom to kill her kids, I think I’d be a little bit worried.
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I → think → kids
“Will mommy kill me tonight?”
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mommy → kill → me
If the jury had the option of a second-degree murder verdict, it would’ve likely ended the Clancy trial once and for all.
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it → have → all
Looking back, those involved in Clancy’s support system obviously saw no reason to monitor her on the day she killed her children.
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she → look → children
If anyone felt the children were in danger, they would have removed them from her care.
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they → feel → care
Clancy claims her sickness motivated the killing, but that is something we’ll never truly know.
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we → claim → killing
What we do know is that she committed maternal filicide and has been fighting for her life with attorneys, medical professionals and sympathizers ever since.
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she → know → attorneys
Sadly, she never gave her babies a chance to live their lives.
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she → give → lives
Justice will be served in the end, but in reality, no one will ever come out the winner of this case.
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one → serve → case
Roberta Chaleff
Tamarac, Fla.
I don’t care what the law says about reasonable doubt or the defense’s claim that Clancy was mentally unstable when she killed her children.
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she → care → children
