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Courts · Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Clancy jury told the judge it could not agree; deliberations set for a fifth day

The File desk · Sep 2, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

Status

Partially confirmed from Associated Press pool court coverage. No docket minute or verdict was fetched. Charges and the not-guilty plea remain Confirmed from the indictment and the Plymouth DA.
  • Confirmed
    A Plymouth County grand jury on Sept. 15, 2023, returned three murder indictments under G.L. c. 265 § 1 naming Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, and three companion counts of strangulation or suffocation under G.L. c. 265 § 15D(b). Lindsay M. Clancy of Duxbury pleaded not guilty.
  • Partially confirmed
    Associated Press reported that on Tuesday morning, Sept. 1, 2026 — the fourth day of deliberations — jurors sent Judge William Sullivan a note saying they had been unable to reach a unanimous decision; he told them to keep trying; they asked around 3:30 p.m. to go home and resume in the morning; and they were set to resume Wednesday for a fifth day. There is no verdict in that dispatch.
Associated Press reported from Plymouth, Mass., that jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, Sept. 2, a day after telling Judge William Sullivan they could not agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children. AP said that on Tuesday morning, in the fourth day of deliberations, the jury sent a note saying it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision, which is required for a conviction or an acquittal; Sullivan told them to keep trying; around 3:30 p.m. they asked to go home and resume in the morning. Clancy, 36, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. AP said she does not deny strangling the children and that prosecutors argue she knew what she was doing. No verdict.
Associated Press reported: “Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, a day after telling the judge they couldn’t agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children.”
AP said that on Tuesday morning, in the fourth day of deliberations, the jury sent Judge William Sullivan a note saying it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision, which is required for a conviction or an acquittal. Sullivan told them to keep trying. Around 3:30 p.m. they asked to go home and resume in the morning. AP did not state a Wednesday clock. No official court PDF of the jury note was fetched. There is no verdict.
Clancy, 36, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. AP said she does not deny strangling the children and attributes the acts to postpartum psychosis; prosecutors argue she knew what she was doing. Postpartum psychosis is not treated here as a medical finding. AP wrote that if jurors ultimately cannot agree, the judge could declare a mistrial.
Underlying charges remain the Sept. 15, 2023, Plymouth County grand jury indictments: three murder counts under G.L. c. 265 § 1 and companion strangulation or suffocation counts under G.L. c. 265 § 15D(b), as previously sourced on The File.

What is still unknown or disputed

Primary sources

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  1. Source 1

    Lindsay Clancy trial jury set to deliberate for fifth day after telling judge they were deadlocked

    Associated Press · September 2, 2026

    On Tuesday morning, the jury, then in its fourth day of deliberations, sent Judge William Sullivan a note saying it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision. Sullivan told the jurors to keep trying. After deliberating in private for the rest of the day, the jury asked at around 3:30 p.m. to go home and resume deliberations in the morning. Jurors were set to resume deliberations Wednesday. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

    https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-jury-deliberations-6f3a9556fb5d7a2b159b33ac6f2edc2c

  2. Source 2

    Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy, true bills (Plymouth Superior Court)

    Plymouth Superior Court (WBUR copy of the indictment PDF) · September 15, 2023

    Six true bills returned Sept. 15, 2023, at Brockton. Three charge murder under G.L. c. 265 § 1 in the deaths of Cora Clancy, Dawson Clancy, and Callan Clancy. Three charge strangulation or suffocation of another person under G.L. c. 265 § 15D(b), one count for each child. Each bill names Lindsay M. Clancy of Duxbury and places the alleged acts on or about Jan. 24, 2023, at Duxbury.

    https://media.wbur.org/wp/2023/09/clancy-indictment.pdf

  3. Source 3

    Duxbury Woman Arraigned On Charges That She Murdered Her Three Children

    Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office · October 26, 2023

    Today, Lindsay Clancy, 33, was arraigned in Tewksbury State Hospital on three counts each of Murder and Strangulation. Clancy pleaded not guilty to the charges and was held without bail at the facility. On September 15, a Plymouth County grand jury indicted Lindsay Clancy on the charges.

    https://plymouthda.com/news/2023-press-releases/duxbury-woman-arraigned-on-charges-that-she-murdered-her-three-children/