Lindsay Clancy trial: No verdict after 17 hours of jury deliberations; hearing to continue Tuesday

Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them before they start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool) Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial spent a third day deliberating without reaching a verdict, bringing their total deliberation time to about 17 hours. The jury, which is deciding whether the former labour and delivery nurse was criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023, is set to continue deliberations on Tuesday.According to The Associated Press (AP), jurors began deliberating Thursday after hearing testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses and 10 defence witnesses during a five-week trial. The case has drawn attention to maternal mental health and postpartum psychosis.Clancy, 36, does not deny strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan — with exercise bands at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24, 2023. She then attempted suicide while her husband was away getting takeout and going to a pharmacy.Her defence has argued that she was suffering from severe pos...