Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan has sent the jury in the Lindsay Clancy case back for another round of deliberations on the 28th day of the murder trial.
Clancy, the woman accused of murdering her three children, has argued through her defense team that she strangled them in a state of postpartum psychosis as she seeks an insanity defense. The jurors in the trial have so far been unable to reach a unanimous verdict, with Sullivan instructing them to return for a seventh day of deliberations after about 36 hours of discussions.
On Thursday afternoon, the jury foreperson alerted Sullivan that a single, holdout juror was not following the judge’s rules regarding reasonable doubt. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney, had unsuccessfully asked the judge to remove the holdout juror.
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“I wanted to remind you, as I instructed you earlier, it is your duty as jurors to accept the law as I gave it to you,” Sullivan told the jurors before they returned to deliberations on Friday. “You must follow the law as I give it to you, whether you agree with it or not.”
The 12-person jury is composed of nine women and three men.