Clancy Lawyer Seeks Trump Pardon After Mistrial

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case after a 12-member jury deadlocked over whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children in January 2023. Clancy acknowledged killing the children but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense citing severe postpartum psychosis and prosecutors arguing that she acted deliberately and understood her actions. Three jurors said the panel was effectively 11-1 for acquittal and accused a male holdout of refusing to vote for an insanity acquittal despite acknowledging reasonable doubt; the judge declined to remove him after tense deliberations involving shouting and name-calling. Clancy’s lawyer has asked President Donald Trump to pardon her, but the president has no authority to pardon someone convicted in a Massachusetts state case, and Trump has suggested another trial may occur. The former husband’s attorney separately threatened legal action over what he called false conspiracy theories and defamatory claims about the father’s involvement.