{"id":3679,"date":"2026-11-02T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:03:46","slug":"lindsay-clancy-returns-to-massachusetts-court-for-hearing-that-could-shape-potential-murder-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy returns to Massachusetts court for hearing that could shape potential murder retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Lindsay Clancy is \u200bdue back in court on Monday for a hearing that could determine whether she will be retried \u200cfor killing her three young children at her Massachusetts home in 2023 after a jury deadlocked at her first trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge William Sullivan is scheduled to hear arguments in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Clancy\u2019s bid to dismiss the murder charges and to discuss a timetable for a potential \u200bnew trial if he allows the case to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz\u2019s office has yet \u200bto publicly detail its plans for a retrial of Clancy, 36. She faces first-degree murder \u2060charges over the deaths of her daughter Cora, 5; son Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old son Callan.<\/p>\n<p>In a filing last \u200bweek, prosecutors urged Sullivan to reject a defence bid to have the case thrown out, saying they \u201cshould be permitted to \u200bcontinue to pursue justice for Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan at a September 29 hearing said the parties should be prepared on Monday to discuss a date for a retrial.<\/p>\n<p>No one at Clancy\u2019s initial trial disputed that she strangled her three children with exercise bands on \u200bJanuary 24, 2023, in the basement of their home in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. She then cut herself \u200bwith a knife and jumped from a second-story window in an attempt to end her own life, leaving her paralysed.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyers, though, \u200chave argued \u2060the evidence showed Clancy was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, known in Massachusetts as lack of criminal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the jurors in televised interviews later said that but for one holdout juror, they had been prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. Such \u200ba verdict would have resulted \u200bin her commitment to \u2060a state psychiatric hospital, subject to regular court review.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have several options before them, including retrying Clancy on the first-degree murder charges or seeking her conviction on lesser second-degree murder \u200bcharges, which would give her the option to waive a jury trial and proceed \u200bbefore a judge.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2060first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole. Second-degree murder allows for the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers are expected on Monday to argue that a retrial would violate Clancy\u2019s constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same \u2060crime, known \u200bas double jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>They contend the mistrial declared on September 4 was \u200bunnecessary. Citing jury notes that stated the holdout juror was not following the law on reasonable doubt despite the judge\u2019s instructions, defence lawyers say Sullivan \u200bshould have instead questioned the holdout and potentially removed the juror.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Clancy is \u200bdue back in court on Monday for a hearing that could determine whether she will be retried \u200cfor killing her three young children at her Massachusetts home in 2023 after a jury deadlocked at her first trial. Judge William Sullivan is scheduled to hear arguments in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Clancy\u2019s bid to dismiss the murder charges and to discuss a timetable for a potential \u200bnew trial if he allows the case to proceed. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz\u2019s office has yet \u200bto publicly detail its plans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}