Lindsay Clancy jurors’ outfits spark wild verdict speculation as deliberations continue: Live updates

Courtroom reporters and online observers noted a change in attire from several Lindsay Clancy jurors.

The group appeared to be dressed up today, with one man sporting a tie, one person wrote on X.

Some social media users have speculated the change in outfits could indicate the jury is prepared to render their verdict today.

‘Are we getting a verdict later today in the Lindsay Clancy trial?’ one person wrote on X.

‘Always interesting when the jury collectively changes their normal attire. Saying a prayer for them today.’

Others claimed that two female jurors allegedly wore pink outfits in court.

Clancy’s supporters have come out in droves to the courthouse, wearing pink in solidarity with her.

The judge has ordered the members of the jury to not discuss or read anything about the case.

‘Female jurors are wearing pink in the Lindsay Clancy case. Seems a bit inappropriate even if it is not them signaling,’ another person wrote on X.

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at her home in Duxbury in January 2023.

She does not deny she killed them, but has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis after being prescribed a powerful cocktail of drugs to cope with depression.

The prosecution has argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

Jurors are now deciding if she is guilty of murder, manslaughter or not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility.

If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole.

If the jury finds her guilty of manslaughter, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars.

If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

The judge presiding over Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial once handled the case of another killer mom with chilling parallels – and his decision to block medical evidence resulted in a shocking retrial.

Judge William F Sullivan, 69, has led the proceedings in Clancy’s case, where prosecutors contend the former nurse intentionally killed her three children.

In 2022, Sullivan presided over the murder trial of Latarsha Sanders, another Massachusetts mother who killed her two sons.

Lindsay Clancy’s quaint Summer Street home was supposed to be the setting for her family’s happily ever after.

It was where she and her husband Patrick chose to raise their three children: Cora, five, Dawson, three, and baby Callan.

But for the past three years, that picture-perfect suburban setting has been shattered and replaced by the clinical corridors at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Behind the doors of the pre-Civil War psychiatric facility, the former nurse who once cared for her own patients has become the patient herself.

Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney described her as a ‘damn good mother’ who did ‘nothing wrong’ before she strangled her children to death during emotional closing arguments.

Reddington vehemently defended his client throughout the trial, but further emphasized his belief during his closing statement.

On January 24, 2023, Clancy announced she’d had an exhausting day looking after their three young children so she asked husband Patrick if he didn’t mind going out on an errand. He just needed to pick up some children’s medicine and a takeout dinner order as she’d been too tired to cook, she told him.

Patrick, 36, who worked in software sales for Microsoft, was happy to oblige. But when he returned to their home in the well-to-do Boston coastal suburb of Duxbury less than an hour later at around 6pm, he discovered that their happy family existence had been snuffed out in an act of almost unimaginable violence.

After going upstairs to find his wife, who he imagined was giving the children a bath, he discovered their second-floor bedroom door was locked and had to force his way in. Inside, there was blood on the floor, a bloody knife on the nightstand and the room was chilly as a window had been left open.

He ran downstairs to find his wife lying barely conscious outside. She had cut her wrists and neck before jumping out of the window, falling some 20ft onto frozen ground. She told him she’d tried to kill herself, adding – when he asked – that the children were in the basement.

Patrick stayed by her side for the next 10 minutes after dialing 911, convinced that she might die before the paramedics arrived.

Only when they turned up did he hurry inside to find the children – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and Callan, just eight months. They were indeed in the basement – they had all been strangled with resistance bands.

ADA Jennifer Sprague presented the closing argument and asked the jury to find Clancy guilty of murder on Thursday.

‘She knew what she did was wrong. She could conform her behavior to the law and chose not to,’ Sprague said.

‘She didn’t expect to have any consequences because she expected to die with her children.

‘You know it was deliberate premeditation because of the way she killed them and the way they died.’

Sprague continued: ‘She didn’t see them in that moment as individual human beings with rights, with dreams, with futures.

‘She didn’t bring them up to their beds; she left them, discarded on the basement floor, like broken toys, like she was done playing the game. You know, to a moral certainty, she is guilty.’

One member of the jury appeared to wipe away tears during the closing argument.

A panel of 12 jurors are deliberating in a private room on whether they find Lindsay Clancy guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter.

The jury includes nine women and three men. The foreperson is a woman. They have not been sequestered for deliberations.

The group deliberated for 10 hours last week without reaching a verdict.

A psychiatrist who testified against Lindsay Clancy at her murder trial resigned from his hospital job hours after taking the stand.

Dr Avram Mack concluded that the 36-year-old was criminally responsible for killing her children after he interviewed her in April this year.

He then repeatedly clashed with defense attorney Kevin Reddington under cross-examination.

Last week, after he finished his testimony, Mack, 54, resigned from his role as a psychiatrist at Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware.

The Lindsay Clancy jury is now working to decide her fate.

We’ve been in court since day one of ‘America’s saddest murder trial.’

While the world waits for their verdict, take a look back at our coverage of all the major moments from the gripping trial.

Clancy’s parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, and sister Allison Ozga entered the courthouse on Monday.