Lindsay Clancy trial jury resumes deliberations as mistrial potential grows
It appears the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts could end in a mistrial.
Updated on: September 3, 2026 / 9:16 AM EDT / CBS Boston
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan sent the jurors back into deliberations Wednesday afternoon with one last instruction, known as a " dynamite charge ." It's a last resort jury instruction to try to get a verdict. The nine women and three men have deliberated for more than 29 hours since getting the case last Thursday, August 27 .
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the strangulation deaths of her three children - 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan - in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023 .
"I think that we're at the end of the road here," said CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi. "I think it's very unlikely we're going to get a verdict. I think most likely the jury is going to come in today, deliberate for a few more hours, really just to appease the judge, then tell them, you know, tell him we're hopelessly deadlocked. At that point, he really is required to declare a mistrial because anything more pushing them really gets into a coercive verdict, which is highly appealable."
Polisi thinks prosecutors have to think hard about how they want to move forward with the Clancy case if this ends in a mistrial. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington said he would be ready for a second trial "next week."