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By Amanda Castro
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A Massachusetts judge on Monday denied Lindsay Clancy’s request to dismiss the murder charges against her following the mistrial in the deaths of her three young children. The decision rejects the defense’s argument that retrying Clancy would violate constitutional protections against double jeopardy.
Prosecutors can now move toward a second trial, with another hearing scheduled for Nov. 16 to address the path forward and a possible retrial as early as March 2027.
Judge William Sullivan of Plymouth Superior Court, who presided over the first trial, found that the jury’s inability to reach a unanimous verdict created a “manifest necessity” for the September mistrial.
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Because of that finding, he ruled that another prosecution on the murder indictments would not violate Clancy’s right against double jeopardy.
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was charged in the 2023 deaths of her children, five-year-old Cora Clancy, three-year-old Dawson Clancy and eight-month-old Callan Clancy, at the family’s home in Duxbury.
Her defense has argued that severe postpartum mental illness left her without criminal responsibility, while prosecutors maintain that her actions were deliberate and that she understood what she was doing.
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