Lindsay Clancy retrial hearing set for Monday in Massachusetts

Lindsay Clancy is scheduled to appear in a Massachusetts courtroom on Monday for a hearing that could set the date for her retrial on triple murder charges, or determine whether a new trial will take place at all. The case involves the deaths of her three children in their Duxbury home in January 2023.

The hearing follows a mistrial declared in September after a jury deadlocked. The 12-person jury split 11 to 1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, with one holdout juror preventing a unanimous verdict.

“That's my goal -- to get this thing tried to as soon as proper without sacrificing anyone's rights, anyone's position.”

Clancy’s defense attorneys are asking Judge William Sullivan to dismiss the case. They argue the judge failed to fully investigate whether the holdout juror properly followed legal instructions, and that retrying the case would amount to double jeopardy.

Prosecutors have not yet said whether they intend to retry Clancy. They previously argued that Sullivan properly declared a mistrial after the jury reported being deadlocked twice.

Clancy, 36, has been held at Tewksbury Hospital since shortly after the killings and remains partially paralyzed from her suicide attempt. She did not testify during the original trial.

If convicted, Clancy could face life in prison. If jurors find she cannot be held criminally responsible, the court would likely begin committing her to a psychiatric hospital.