Lindsay Clancy murder trial: judge set to call mistrial after jury deadlocks – live updates

This dramatic turn of events, as the judge was about to declare a mistrial and call the jury back in, comes after Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked for an emergency stay.

The judge, William Sullivan, has given him one hour to do so.

The jury was sent out over a week ago to decide whether the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children – eight-month old Callan, five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson – in January 2023.

Over the past six weeks, the trial, which has been called “America’s saddest murder trial”, has renewed nationwide attention on postpartum mental healthcare. Clancy’s defense maintains that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis – a condition estimated to affect around two women per 1,000 births – and therefore should not be held criminally responsible for her actions.

Prosecutors from the Plymouth county district attorney’s office, meanwhile, argue that Clancy’s actions were planned and deliberate.

The judge has said he has no choice but to declare a mistrial after the jury remained deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy for the killing of her three young children ⁠at her home in 2023.

He was about to bring the jury back into the courtroom after jurors, after almost 40 hours of deliberation, said in a note on Friday that “with a heavy heart” it could not reach a unanimous decision.

However, the judge said he will hold off on formally declaring a mistrial to give the defense an hour to file an emergency appeal.

We’ll bring you all the latest updates as we get them.