Lindsay Clancy jury tells judge it can’t reach verdict after four days of deliberations: Live updates

The Lindsay Clancy jury told the judge they are unable to reach a verdict after 18 hours of deliberations.

‘Members of the jury I’ve got your question and the question is, “After many hours of deliberation we are unable to come to a unanimous decision,”‘ Judge William Sullivan said.

He acknowledged the length of the trial, but ordered the jury to continue deliberations and sent them back.

‘I brought you back out because I know that this was a long trial, alright. I know that there were over 80 witness, there were over 300 exhibits, but because of that I’m going to ask you to back out, keeping in mind all of the instructions that I gave you, to go out and to continue you deliberations,’ Sullivan said.

The panel of 12, made up of nine women and three men, must reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy is guilty of murder, manslaughter or not criminally responsible for her actions.

If the jury is unable to reach a verdict, the judge will eventually be forced to declare a mistrial.

The jury had deliberated for 18 hours when they told the judge they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

The group has not be sequestered during discussions.

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.

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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.

As of Tuesday morning, the group has deliberated for 17 hours without reaching a verdict.

The Lindsay Clancy jury have told the judge that they are unable to reach a verdict after 18 hours of deliberations at her murder trial.

Clancy, 36, was accused of murdering her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 2023.

However on Tuesday morning, the panel of 12 jurors – nine women and three men – told Judge William Sullivan that they cannot reach a unanimous decision.

Judge Sullivan forced the jurors to continue deliberations after the news.

Graphic images of Lindsay Clancy’s injuries from the night she killed her children and then attempted suicide have debunked wild conspiracy theories pushed by internet sleuths.

Since the start of the trial last month, social media users have been peddling bizarre theories about the case.

Particularly cruel posts have suggested, without evidence, that Patrick Clancy was somehow involved in the murders and framed his ex-wife.

The jury was brought back into the courtroom.

After a very brief sidebar, the attorneys returned to the their tables.

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.

The court was called back into session, and Judge Sullivan immediately called a sidebar with the attorneys.

It appears that the jury has a question.