Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial said Tuesday they've been unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether the Massachusetts mother was criminally responsible for killing her three young children, but the judge told them to keep trying.
The jury is in its fourth day of deliberations in what has been a closely watched trial focused on maternal mental health after childbirth, and which has stirred deep divisions among the public.
This was the first time the jury gave any indication they were at an impasse. Clancy stared straight ahead as the jury entered, then looked toward them as the judge spoke to the panel.
"I know that this was a long trial, all right," Judge William Sullivan said. "I know there were over 80 witnesses. There were over 300 exhibits. But because of that, I'm going to ask you to go back out."
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, doesn't deny strangling her children but says postpartum psychosis led to her actions. Prosecutors argue she knew what she was doing. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
