Clancy jury deadlocked on sixth day; defense seeks juror removal over law instructions

In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, a jury has spent six days wrestling with one of the most anguishing questions the law can pose: whether a mother who killed her three young children bears full criminal responsibility, or whether illness had so consumed her that justice must look different. Twice declaring themselves deadlocked, the twelve jurors reflect not dysfunction but the genuine difficulty of holding grief, medicine, and moral culpability in the same hand. As the judge issues final instructions and resists removing a dissenting juror, the trial stands at the edge of collapse — a m