In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, twelve jurors have spent nearly thirty hours wrestling with one of the most morally weighted questions a jury can face: whether a mother who strangled her three children bears the full weight of murder, or whether her fractured mental state diminishes that responsibility. Twice they have told the court they cannot agree, and twice the judge has sent them back. The law offers one final instruction before it concedes defeat — a formal plea for consensus known as a dynamite charge — and now the case waits, suspended between verdict and mistrial, between jus
Deadlocked Clancy jury faces final push after 30 hours of deliberations
Three children were strangled to death by their mother, Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse now paralyzed from a suicide attempt.
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