Clancy Defense Renews Not Guilty Motion After Mistrial

The defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy has filed a renewed motion asking a Massachusetts judge to find her not guilty on all charges, arguing the prosecution failed to prove she was criminally responsible for the 2023 deaths of her three young children. The motion for a required finding of not guilty was filed Thursday in Plymouth Superior Court, days after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. The jury of nine women and three men had deliberated for roughly seven days and repeatedly reported deadlock before the judge declared the mistrial, even after reading the Tuey-Rodriguez warning, the strongest message a judge can use to urge consensus. Clancy, 36, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of strangulation in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family's Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. She has admitted killing the children but argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and heard a voice ordering her to kill the children and herself. Prosecutors argued that despite her mental health struggles, she could tell right from wrong and control her actions.