The Jury Has Been Deadlocked for Six Days. Today They Try Again.

For six straight days, twelve jurors in a Massachusetts courtroom have gone back into a room, argued, and come out with nothing. Thursday ended the same way the five days before it did: no verdict, and a note to the judge saying one juror won't move.

They're back again today.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, a former nurse, is charged in the deaths of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and infant Callan — at the family's home in Duxbury in January 2023. She attempted suicide the same night, an attempt that left her paralyzed and using a wheelchair.

Clancy isn't disputing what happened. Her defense is built entirely around whether she's criminally responsible for it — pointing to a documented history of postpartum psychosis, intrusive thoughts of harming herself and her children in the months before, antidepressant and antipsychotic medication, and a voluntary stay at a mental health facility. She has a separate lawsuit pending against her own clinicians, alleging they missed a bipolar diagnosis and prescribed a course of treatment that made her condition worse.

Massachusetts doesn't call it an insanity defense — legally, it's "lack of criminal responsibility," and the burden works in the defendant's favor. Once Clancy's team raised the question, prosecutors had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was criminally responsible, not the other way around. That's a genuinely high bar, and it's very likely the exact bar this jury has spent six days arguing over.

The judge has so far declined to remove the juror the foreperson flagged, despite a defense request to do so, and has sent the panel back to keep deliberating rather than declaring a mistrial. If they still can't agree after today, a mistrial becomes a real possibility — which would mean this entire case, insanity question and all, starts over from nothing.

No verdict has been reached as of this writing. IF Daily will update this if and when the jury reaches one — but after six days deadlocked on the exact question the whole case hinges on, there's no guarantee today is the day that happens.