Lindsay Clancy Mistrial: The ONE Juror Who Refused to Budge

Patrick Bet-David (0:00)

The next story is with Lindsay Clancy. We're at the event, and all of a sudden, it's like, mistrial, mistrial, mistrial, mistr- What do you mean, mistrial? Yeah, mistrial. Wait, out of the 12 jurors, how many were on her side?

Of the 12 jurors, what sexes were they? Nine women, three men. Nine women all sided with her. Of the three men, two sided with her, one did not. And the one that did not, I cannot tell you how many times, including the judge, try to tell this guy, but hey, get in line, okay? Get in line. And the guy is like, no, not back and down. This guy, I've seen some pictures of this guy, and who knows whether these pictures are right or wrong, if it's him or not, because you know they're trying to protect him. I mean, you can literally pull up the 12 jurors and identify the three males. Can you pull up the 12 jurors on the Lindsay Clancy case and go through the three men that are on this? One of them said, no, this woman is guilty. There's no way she's innocent. She is guilty.

And next thing you know, it's a mistrial. So now we were one juror away from this woman who was already raised $1.2 million on, what do you call it, on GoFundMe and killed her three kids. She could have walked. That's the system we're in right now.

She could have walked.

So I got a bunch of questions on this that I want to go to. And Vinny, I'm going to come to you first. Lindsay Clancy trial ends in mistrial with no verdict. What happens next? This is what everybody wants to know. What is going to happen next with this story, right? Everybody wants to know what happens next with this story. Let me read it to you.

So the trial ended in a mistrial, day seven of the deliberations, after the jury reported a single holdout and said it could not reach unanimity on whether she was criminally responsible for strangling her three children on January of 2023 Clancy returns to state hospital Tewksbury where she has been held since 2023 DA. Timothy Cruz will decide whether to retry first degree murder, downgrade charges, offer plea or drop the case. I'm going to be meeting with our team, he said, giving no timeline. Reddington said if a fall retrial happens, she'll be ready. Legal experts expect a retrial citing the Karen Reed precedent, a retired after a 2024 hung jury, then acquitted. I think they'll likely come back a second time, said CBS analyst Caroline Pelosi, noting prosecutors made some pretty big missteps they could fix, including their argument that Clancy faked her suicide attempt. Jurors heard 85 witnesses, 200 pieces of evidence across nearly six weeks. Nobody can agree out here, so why would the jury agree, Pelosi said, of the polarized public? Vinny?

Vinny Ognissanti (2:51)

Well, I mean, this is one of those cases that is going to set a precedent. I sent Connor the story already, already. In Illinois, a mother was charged with murder and death of her two-year-old. Prosecutors say Corey Walsh had recently become very interested in the Lindsay Clancy case, and had spoke of harming her other three children and her husband. So we have to be very careful of what's happening, okay? And just FYI, because I'm going to have Connor play these two videos from the psychologist that we understand.

Lindsay developing postpartum psychosis eight months after giving birth would make her such an extreme statistical outliner. Like postpartum psychosis occurs in one to two out of every 1,000 births. So usually it begins with the first couple of weeks, and then it becomes increasingly rare the more time passes. So she was at eight months.

Excuse me, eight months. So think about the time, and then look at the circumstances. She's at the house. She's researching how long her husband, Patrick, how long the trip to the restaurant would take. She sent him out. She added another errand, and then she became psychotic during the precise 18-minute window that she created. And in that window, she claims that she heard a voice for the first time to kill all three children. And she also missed her husband's phone call, but then deliberately called him back, which shows that she remained aware of the situation and the risk of him returning early. And then the alleged psychosis ended with the treatment or the intervention. Pat, this guy right here, did you see this? This is Kurt Hilbrom. Just to give you his credit, he's a psychologist, board certified in both clinical and forensic psychology. He testified that he does not, by the way, this is a doctor, this isn't TikTok people and women, liberal women flipping out. He does not believe that she was experiencing acute psychosis. And he said that those voices never returned, it's very, he didn't say very once, very, very rare. Can you play this, Connor?