Social Media Could Give Clancy Defense Edge in Potential Retrial, Judge Says

Three children under age 6 were strangled to death in January 2023; defendant faces severe emotional toll from prolonged trial proceedings.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, twelve jurors have spent more than 28 hours unable to agree on the fate of Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old woman charged with the murders of her three young children in January 2023. The deadlock, now stretching into a sixth day, raises the possibility of a mistrial — and with it, a retrial shaped by forces the law was never designed to reckon with. A retired judge observes that social media has quietly rewritten the rules of what a second trial means, turning what was once a prosecutorial advantage into something far less certain.

Social Media Could Give Clancy Defense Edge in Potential Retrial, Judge Says

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