Three jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have broken their silence days after the case ended in a mistrial, offering a revealing account of the bitter deliberations that left the jury deadlocked 11-1. The jury spent more than six days deliberating before Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Clancy, who was charged with killing her three children in January 2023, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.
Now, the jury foreperson and two other female jurors have spoken publicly about what happened behind closed doors. In an interview with NBC10 Boston, they described increasingly heated disagreements with the lone holdout juror and said they remained determined to reach a verdict. The most striking revelation came from the foreperson, who said the holdout at one point acknowledged having reasonable doubt about Clancy's criminal responsibility—yet still refused to vote for a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict.
Newsweek has reached out to Judge Sullivan and defense attorney Kevin Reddington. Here are the five biggest revelations from the jurors' account. The three jurors' account offers a rare glimpse into the deliberations and raises new questions about how the jury became deadlocked.
The most significant revelation came from the foreperson. She said the holdout eventually acknowledged that he had reasonable doubt about the case. Believing a verdict was finally within reach, she said she began filling out the verdict forms.
"He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited," she told NBC10 Boston. But, according to the foreperson, the juror then refused to agree to a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict. "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity," she said he told the group.
According to the foreperson's account, the majority of the panel favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. The holdout's refusal to join them ultimately prevented a unanimous verdict. The revelation is significant because it appears to explain why the 11-1 split did not simply result in an acquittal.
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