Judge Rejects Lindsay Clancy Bid to Dismiss Murder Charges

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan rejected Lindsay Clancy’s request to dismiss three murder indictments, ruling that a jury’s deadlock justified the mistrial and that a retrial would not violate her protection against double jeopardy.

In written rulings issued Monday, Sullivan also denied the defense’s requests to question the juror who remained opposed to an acquittal and to obtain records related to the jurors’ service. He separately rejected prosecutors’ request for an order restricting public statements by Clancy’s lawyers.

The case concerns the January 2023 deaths of Clancy’s three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s home in Duxbury. Clancy was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Her defense has argued she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury in her first trial did not reach a unanimous verdict, and Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4.

Clancy’s attorneys argued that Sullivan should have questioned or removed the holdout juror after notes from the jury foreperson raised concerns about the juror’s application of reasonable doubt. Sullivan...