Lindsay Clancy Jurors Explain Mistrial

Jurors said one holdout blocked a verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial.

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Updated Sep 9, 8:19pm ET

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Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s Massachusetts murder trial said the panel deadlocked 11-1 before the judge declared a mistrial, with the majority prepared not to convict her in the 2023 deaths of her three children. Three female jurors, including the foreperson, said the lone holdout would not move from a vote to convict. Juror Nick Dargie separately said the holdout did not cite a “single piece of evidence” to explain his position. Clancy’s defense centered on insanity, while prosecutors charged her with first-degree murder.

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Holdout Was RightMostly Right

The jurors pushing for acquittal let sympathy, emotion, and personal views overwhelm the legal question before them. The lone holdout was justified in refusing a not-guilty verdict because Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and that fact could not be minimized.

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