Lindsay Clancy: Drama in the Deliberation Room

**Natalie Morales** (0:00)
As a warning, some of this content contains graphic and disturbing details, including discussions of suicide and the killing of children. So please listen or watch with care. We'll also have resources at the end of the episode.

**Kevin Reddington** (0:19)
If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame, it's a real shame.
And that's why I object to the court's ruling. I request that we have further inquiry. I request that my motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.

**Jennifer Sprague** (0:41)
I think what Your Honor has done by asking each juror if they're able to follow the law and then giving a general instruction on reasonable doubt is appropriate under Commonwealth versus Commonwealth, so we do not have an objection to the questions or the re-instruction.

**Natalie Morales** (0:57)
Drama in the deliberation room has thrown a wrench into the Lindsay Clancy trial this week. The jury was deadlocked twice since deliberations began last Thursday on August 27th. Now you just heard from Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington requesting that a juror be removed from the deliberations because he believes this member of the jury refuses to listen to the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt. The judge had called jurors to the stand one by one to give these instructions on reasonable doubt and the prosecution stated that they have no issue with the jurors' instructions.
Lindsay Clancy, of course, is the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother on trial for the killing of her three young children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Katelyn.
As a reminder, Lindsay is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of jumping from her second-story window after her alleged suicide attempt that night.
There is no question as to whether Lindsay killed her children, but what the jury must decide is whether she should be held criminally responsible. The defense argued that she experienced undiagnosed postpartum psychosis that took away her ability to control her actions and therefore should be found not criminally responsible. Now, they also argued that her condition was exacerbated by the 13 psychiatric medications she had been prescribed.
I'm 48 Hours correspondent Natalie Morales and this is Case by Case. We have been following this case closely for over a month now. For our continuing coverage, you can check the Case by Case feed wherever you find your podcasts. You can also watch episodes of Case by Case on the 48 Hours YouTube channel, or by searching Case by Case on Paramount Plus. Returning this week is Kristina Rex, reporter and anchor for Wbz-Tv in Boston. Thank you so much, Kristina, for being with us again today. I know you've been covering the Clancy case since the night of the killings.

**Kristina Rex** (3:01)
Yeah, Natalie, thanks for having me again. I have been covering this since the night of the killings. I was actually there at the crime scene the night this happened, and then I've covered the trial every step of the way since.

**Natalie Morales** (3:12)
Yes, and in fact, you were inside the court room for that stunning moment with the jurors. Can you tell me a little bit more about what you saw there?

**Kristina Rex** (3:21)
It was really intense, and part of the reason it was so intense was because so much of this happened at sidebar before it was in open court. So all of the media were called into the room, and there's dozens of members of the media at this point. The general public was called in, and there was still a line out the door that wasn't able to get into the room. And of course, Lindsay Clancy's parents and her family were there as well.
And the judge called the attorneys and each individual deliberating juror up to sidebar and questioned them one by one with Lindsay Clancy sitting there at sidebar as well before anything happened in open court. So that's part of the reason that that moment was just so intense was because really nobody knew what was going on except that it was clearly a juror issue since they're being questioned individually.

**Natalie Morales** (4:12)
Yeah. And I wonder how this could affect the rest of the deliberation process as it continues on.

**Kristina Rex** (4:21)
There's really three different options that could happen now. Either the jury could continue its deliberations and reach a unanimous verdict, which of course is the goal of a trial, or there could be a mistrial as a result of a hung jury or this particular juror issue, or if Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney gets his way, he wants one juror removed and an alternate juror put in their place so that deliberations can basically go back to square one.