The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case has rejected her attorney’s bid to end the case without another trial. On Thursday, he denied a motion arguing there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children in their Massachusetts home in 2023.
Had the judge granted the motion, the case would have ended without a retrial. Instead, the murder charges remain in place.
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Clancy’s trial
Clancy’s first trial ended in a mistrial last month after seven days of deliberations. Eleven jurors were ready to find hernot criminally responsible because of mental disease, while one maintained she was guilty.
Clancy has admitted to killing the children. Her defense argues, however, that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible.
After the mistrial, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked the judge to find Clancy not guilty, arguing prosecutors hadn’t presented enough evidence to prove their case.
The latest motion
At a hearing Tuesday, Reddington went further, arguing there was no evidence Clancy had ever admitted to the killings — or that she had killed the children at all.
On Thursday, the judge rejected that argument, ruling prosecutors had presented enough evidence for a jury to consider whether Clancy knew what she was doing was wrong.
Prosecutors called three expert witnesses during the six-week trial who said Clancy was capable of understanding that her actions were wrong. The defense had its own experts who disagreed. The judge said weighing that conflicting testimony is up to a jury.
Thursday’s ruling keeps the murder charges against Clancy in place.
Clancy remains charged with three counts of murder and is being treated at a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will retry her.
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