Judge refuses to remove holdout juror as Lindsay Clancy murder trial deadlocks

In a Plymouth, Massachusetts courtroom, the machinery of justice has slowed to a standstill around one of the most anguishing questions the law can be asked to answer: whether a mother who strangled her three young children in January 2023 bears criminal responsibility for acts she does not deny. After thirty-five hours of deliberation, a single juror's reported refusal to apply the reasonable doubt standard has fractured the process, and a judge's decision to leave that juror in place preserves both the integrity of the jury room and the agony of uncertainty for everyone involved.