Newz(AP) — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday following a dramatic sixth day of deliberations.Her defense lawyer sought to remove one of the jurors after the foreperson said in a note that the juror wouldn’t follow the judge’s instructions about reasonable doubt. The judge declined, and ordered the jurors and alternates to return Friday morning.If they can’t agree whether or not the Massachusetts woman is criminally responsible for killing her three children, then the judge could declare a mistrial. The case has raised awareness about postpartum mental health care for mothers nationwide.Here’s the latest:Clancy’s parents, sister leave courtThey left the courtroom and entered the elevator with a member of Reddington’s defense team, who was holding a box of letters written to Clancy from supporters.Judge sends jurors home after foreperson says 1 won’t follow reasonable doubt instructionsThe jurors eyes were on the floor as they filed into the courtroom.
Some had their hands clasped in front of them. As they took their seats, they seemed expressionless, their faces like stone.“Remember the instructions I have given you over and over again,” the judge reminded them, telling them to stay away from any news coverage or discussion about the case.The judge then excused them until Friday morning at 9 a.m., and declared the court in recess until then.15 min agoDefense called judge’s instruction ‘soft’ and said mistrial would be ‘a real shame’“The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that jury that has been working for a week now saying there is one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you have given him or her on reasonable doubt,” Reddington said, his voicing rising. “I suggest respectfully that the soft instruction that you gave them saying at the sidebar can you listen to the law as I instruct you does not focus on the issue.”But Sullivan said removing a juror from a “deliberating jury is a sensitive undertaking.”“I don’t feel it is proper to side for me to side side with one side or the other of the deliberations.
I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11,” Sullivan said. “At this point, I have asked if they are able follow instructions. They have said at this point they can.”Tension in the jury roomWhile the jury has twice…
The jury will return Friday to continue jury deliberations after receiving instructions on reasonable doubt. (AP) — The defense in the Lindsay Clancy trial told a judge Thursday on the sixth day of deliberations that one juror should be removed from the panel for refusing to follow instructions on reasonable doubt. Instead, the judge sent the jury back to continue deliberations.
The deadlocked jury has twice told the judge in the past two days that they can’t agree whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children. If jurors ultimately cannot agree on a verdict, the judge could declare a mistrial.Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing.Postpartum psychosis is estimated to afflict 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery.
Experts at the Cleveland Clinic describe it as a mental health emergency affecting someone’s sense of reality. Though most people with postpartum psychosis don’t harm their children, mothers with severe cases may try to do so.Here’s the latest:Clancy’s parents, sister leave courtThey left the courtroom and entered the elevator with a member of Reddington’s defense team, who was holding a box of letters written to Clancy from supporters.Judge sends jurors home after foreperson says 1 won’t follow reasonable doubt instructionsThe jurors eyes were on the floor as they filed into the courtroom. The judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial had to remind jurors of his instructions about reasonable doubt on Thursday after the jury foreperson raised an issue about a single juror.
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