Clancy jury’s foreperson flags holdout on reasonable doubt; returns Friday for day 7

Associated Press, datelined PLYMOUTH, Mass.: “A deadlocked jury returns Friday for the seventh day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial, a day after the jury’s foreperson told the judge a single juror won’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt.” AP said the Thursday note was “the clearest glimpse yet of what may be keeping jurors from reaching a verdict.” “The jury has twice told Judge William Sullivan that it is unable to agree on a verdict.”

AP: on Thursday, Sullivan “brought in each juror individually and questioned them in private,” then “reread his instructions on reasonable doubt before sending them back to continue deliberating.” Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, “asked Sullivan to dismiss the juror from the case, arguing the person had refused to follow the judge’s instructions.” Prosecutors objected. Sullivan declined. AP quoted him: “I don’t feel it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations.” “I have asked if they are able to follow my instructions. They swore earlier that they could.”

AP: Clancy, 36, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, “doesn’t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023.” The defense argues postpartum psychosis; prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan, ages 5, 3, and 8 months. Postpartum psychosis is not treated here as a medical finding of this desk. No official court PDF of the jury note was fetched. There is no verdict.