Clancy Lawyer Seeks Trump Pardon After Mistrial

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial after jurors deliberated for more than 38 hours without reaching unanimity on whether she was criminally responsible for the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children. Clancy acknowledged killing the children but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense citing severe postpartum psychosis and prosecutors arguing that she acted deliberately and understood the wrongfulness of her conduct. The panel reportedly split 11-1 in favor of an insanity acquittal; jurors said the lone holdout continued to oppose that verdict despite acknowledging reasonable doubt, and one juror alleged the holdout disengaged, used his phone and demonstrated the killings with an exercise band and water bottle. Clancy’s defense asked the judge to remove the juror rather than declare a mistrial, but the request was denied, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declined to intervene; the mistrial was neither an acquittal nor a conviction, leaving the case’s next steps unresolved. Clancy’s lawyer asked President Donald Trump for a pardon, although he lacks authority to pardon a defendant in a Massachusetts state case, while her former husband’s attorney threatened legal action over alleged false conspiracy theories and defamatory claims about the father’s involvement.