Lindsay Clancy’s fate unresolved as mistrial leaves her case in the court of public opinion – for now | CNN

Plymouth, Massachusetts —

After five grueling weeks of testimony and 38 hours of painstaking deliberations, the jury deciding the fate of Lindsay Clancy – the Massachusetts mother who argued she should not be held criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children – sent the judge what would be their final note:

“It is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.”

Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington fought until the bitter end to prevent a hung jury, making a last-ditch appeal to a higher court after Judge William Sullivan gave him one hour. But the defense attorney’s move only postponed the inevitable: a mistrial.

After a dayslong deadlock, a single holdout juror among the panel’s nine women and three men prevented them from reaching a unanimous verdict, an apt conclusion for a complicated and heartbreaking trial that deeply divided the public and sparked a national reckoning on postpartum depression, anxiety and psychosis.