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Lindsay Clancy returned to court on Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended with a deadlocked jury. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan for an acquittal, arguing that there was not enough evidence to prove that the 36-year-old former nurse killed her three young children. "This entire case is based on speculation," Reddington said. "Where is the admission? Where does she say that she did this?" Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the argument "laughable." Sullivan did not immediately rule. The next hearing in the case is set for Nov. 2. During the trial, Clancy's attorneys did...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy returned to court Tuesday for a hearing that could help decide whether she will face a second trial for killing her three young children. It was Clancy’s first return to the courthouse since her initial trial ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked jury. A judge declared a mistrial with the jury split 11 to 1 in favor of acquitting Clancy of murder charges. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, never disputed that she killed the children, but her attorney said she had a rare condition called postpartum psychosis and was delusional and not...

Massachusetts law faces fierce criticism from legal scholars, scientists, and prosecutors as you cannot prove a negative (disproving the existence of something that leaves no physical footprint, like a specific psychiatric defect at a precise moment in the past). Because of this, the Massachusetts legal framework creates a deeply controversial paradox in practice. The court system tries to bypass this scientific impossibility by changing the definitions. Legally, the state argues they aren’t requiring prosecutors to prove a negative. Instead, they insist that prosecutors are required to prove a positive behavioral state (the presence of rational, goal-directed, and controlled behavior). However,...

The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back after Clancy’s defense asked a judge to investigate his conduct and obtain cellphone records from the jury’s deliberations. Edward Paltzik, attorney for juror Michael Desronvil, blasted the motion as “Looney Tunes” and a “full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution.” He warned that investigating jurors for standing by their views could threaten the independence of jury deliberations, CT Insider reported. Below is the full statement from Paltzik: "The Looney Tunes motion filed yesterday by Kevin "Shooter McGavin" Reddington to investigate Michael is not just an attack on Michael for...

The Lindsay Clancy holdout juror’s attorney on Tuesday hit back at a motion filed by the killer mom’s defense team, branding it a “full-frontal attack on the US Constitution.” Edward Paltzik, who represents Michael Desronvil, spoke after Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, called for a judge to investigate the juror’s phone records and pretrial questionnaire answers. Paltzik branded Monday’s move a “Looney Tunes motion” by “Kevin ‘Shooter McGavin’ Reddington” on his “courageous” client in a statement on X. “If the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the...

The governor of Massachusetts is promoting a new initiative that would have nurses visit new mothers at home in the days after giving birth. “Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you’re going to have a home visit within days, weeks, and that will be an opportunity for a healthcare provider to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources,” Gov. Maura Healey (D) told Boston Public Radio during an interview last week. The initiative is part of the state’s plans to expand its Welcome Family program. Healey further proposed an additional $250,000...

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney on Monday called on the judge who oversaw her mistrial to investigate the holdout juror, claiming he may have inaccurately filled out jury forms or answered questions during the selection process. Kevin Reddington, representing Clancy, also asked Judge William Sullivan to look at juror Michael Desronvil’s alleged domestic violence history and use of their cellphone during deliberations, according to a motion obtained by the New Haven Register. Judge Sullivan has agreed to impound jury information and questionnaires filed before the trial, but has not yet ruled on Reddington’s motion. Desronvil, a 48-year-old father, was the sole voice...

"Lindsay Clancy Juror Breaks His Silence - "I Did Not Lie on the Questionnaire" He Told Me EverythingIn this world exclusive, the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial called me and told me everything. Michael says he did NOT lie on his jury questionnaire, and according to him, other jurors supported Lindsay Clancy behind closed doors.I break down what he told me about the questionnaire, the divorce papers, what NBC left out, and the court documents in this Lindsay Clancy update. As always, I'm giving you his words and the paperwork side by side so you guys can decide...

Paula Devlin, one of the outspoken Lindsay Clancy jurors, said the quiet part out loud this weekend during an interview with CBS. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death in January 2023. Clancy admitted that she killed all three of her own children, but the defense argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury considered five verdicts: – Guilty of First-Degree Murder – Guilty of Second-Degree Murder – Guilty of Manslaughter – Not Guilty – Not Guilty due to Lack of Criminal Responsibility Eleven jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of...

There are those watershed moments in internet history when it makes journalisming all worth it. Such is the case when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was... *gasp"... black. The TikTok crime pseudo-expert, who goes by the handle @paigearony, really sums up the absurdity of identity politics being involved in criminal cases.Lindsay Clancy fan discovering that the lone juror is black might be the greatest video in history pic.twitter.com/jIAjIvMcU5— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2026“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the...

For several days the pontificating media have been parading around the various jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, using the mostly white women to frame the deliberations as sexist and insensitive to the emotional plight of a woman who strangled her three children to death with an exercise band. Millions of middle-age, suburban, angry white females have proclaimed that American men should not have an opinion in the case while simultaneously using toxic sympathy as a weapon to defend the murderer. The previously described “one male holdout juror” who created a mistrial by failing to find the murdering mother...

Video: CBS News' Gayle King reacts live on air to learning Clancy "holdout juror" was the only "person of color" on the jury

Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy. "I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like Lindsay." "There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for [murdering their children]. I just wanna remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well." Totally insane.

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer officially filed a Hail Mary bid Thursday asking a judge to find his killer client not guilty by reason of insanity – despite her high-profile case ending with a hung jury. Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington argued in new court papers that prosecutors at her widely watched five-week trial failed to prove that the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother knew what she was doing was wrong and could follow the law when she strangled her three kids on Jan. 24, 2023. “No rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when...

The declaration of a mistrial in the filicide case of Lindsay Clancy coincides, for me uncomfortably, with a new UK reissue of my 2003 breakout novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. The book concerns a mother whose son becomes a high-school mass murderer. She agonises over whether something has always been wrong with him or something is wrong with him because something is wrong with her. Prior to publication, I’d imagined that the commercial hook would be the frequency with which self-pitying adolescents were taking their misery out on their classmates and teachers, since when I wrote the novel...

A woman with a camera showed the world how crazy the debate around Lindsay Clancy is getting. Kaitlin Bennett speaks to both men and women on the street... & she does not back down.

Political streamer Hasan Piker is facing renewed attention over comments he made about Lindsay Clancy, days after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the case involving the deaths of her three children, as reported by Breitbart.Piker discussed the case during a livestream after a Plymouth County Superior Court jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following seven days of deliberations.Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial on September 4 after jurors repeatedly indicated they remained deadlocked. During the livestream, Piker questioned why anyone would automatically side with prosecutors rather than accept the defense's argument that postpartum psychosis played a significant...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — Days after Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended with a deadlocked jury, her ex-husband and father of the three victims in the case is threatening legal action against people speculating that he was involved in his children's deaths.Lindsay Clancy, 36, admitted to killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — by strangling them with exercise bands in the family's Duxbury home. At the time of the children's deaths, Lindsay Clancy was married to Patrick Clancy, the children's father. On Jan. 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy ran to pick up dinner for...

Amanda Hirsch, host of “Not Skinny But Not Fat,” posted the ad for Polymarket — an online platform that lets users bet on real-life events — the same day the case ended in a mistrial following a hung jury. “On Polymarket it was predicted the verdict would be Not Guilty. Are you surprised? #Polymarketpartner,” Hirsch wrote. The post has since been deleted. Ahead of the mistrial, more than $161,000 was wagered on the outcome of Clancy’s trial on Polymarket. The trade wasn’t available to U.S.-based users, only those located outside the country. While it isn’t legal to bet on the...