The murder trial of a mother who strangled all three of her young children before cutting her wrists and throwing herself out of a first floor window descended into chaos last night.
The despairing judge declared a mistrial – only for her attorney to launch a last-ditch appeal against the ruling before a higher court.
That appeal failed and Judge William Sullivan reaffirmed his original ruling in the case in which a jury of nine women and three men deliberated for seven days but could not agree on whether
Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labour and delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is guilty of murder, manslaughter, or not criminally responsible for her actions.
A note from the jury read in court said: ‘It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.’
