The jury weighing Lindsay Clancy’s fate has asked to recess for the day and will return to continue deliberating, still without a verdict.
Earlier in the day, the panel of nine women and three men told Judge William Sullivan it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision. Rather than declaring a mistrial, Sullivan sent jurors back to continue their work.
They are weighing whether Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her three children, or whether, as the defense argues, she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and could not appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions or conform her conduct to the law.
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney says there is no possibility of a plea deal in her murder case, with prosecutors pursuing the maximum.
Speaking as he left court, Kevin Reddington said the case is locked at three counts of first-degree murder, with no room to negotiate. “There’s no plea bargaining, there’s nothing,” he said, adding that District Attorney Timothy Cruz wants “triple homicide convictions, consecutive life sentences.
Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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