Clancy jurors detail deadlock: holdout refused acquittal despite admitting doubt

In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, a trial meant to weigh the boundaries of criminal responsibility — and the limits of a mind undone by illness — ended not in verdict but in rupture. Eleven jurors, having worked through thirty-eight hours of deliberation, found themselves unable to move the twelfth, a man who acknowledged reasonable doubt yet refused to follow it to its legal conclusion. The mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, in which a Duxbury mother admitted to killing her three young children while claiming postpartum psychosis stripped her of criminal agency, leaves unresolved not