The jury foreperson in Lindsay Clancy’s high-stakes triple murder trial detailed just how close the panel was to finding the killer mom not guilty by reason of insanity until one male holdout juror blocked the verdict.
“He admitted he had reasonable doubt after we watched the video of the interview,” the female juror told NBC 10 Boston in an interview with two other women jury members.
“I started filling out forms, I was so excited,” the woman said.
“There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filing them out, I wrote my signature on each one but then he said, ‘But I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.’”
Judge William Sullivan declare a mistrial Friday after the jurors sent out its third note that they were at an impasse.
The foreperson the day before notified the judge in a note that a certain juror allegedly refused to follow the law on reasonable doubt, forcing Sullivan to question each juror individually under oath. The judge also re-read the panelists his instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, asked the jury to find the 36-year-old former nurse not criminally responsible on the grounds she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and heard a voice commanding her to strangle her three kids, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on Jan. 24, 2023.
But prosecutors claimed she carefully planned the killings and made up hearing the voice and experiencing a psychotic break.
