Following a hung jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial last week, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, said he remains optimistic that the defense and prosecutors may be able to reach some form of agreement.
Reddington also said he hopes President Donald Trump will take a close look at Clancy’s case and consider granting her a pardon.
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady and the person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon,” Reddington said Tuesday during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in connection with the deaths of her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and infant Callan — who died at the family’s home in Duxbury, a suburb of Boston, on Jan. 24, 2023.
Her five-week trial came to an end in a mistrial on Sept. 4, after jurors deliberated for more than a week but were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
When asked about the trial on the day the mistrial was declared, the president told reporters that he was following it, saying, “It’s on television so much, it’s hard not to follow it.”
“Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse,” he said of Clancy. “But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be mental institution or jail or something, but I guess they’re going to go through another trial. It’s too bad.”
When asked for comment on Reddington’s remarks, the White House pointed back to Trump’s comments Friday.
The president has broad authority to issue pardons and commutations, but the power is strictly limited to federal offenses. In her trial, Clancy faced state offenses in being charged with three counts of first-degree murder and was not convicted, therefore
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"I appreciate the fact that there are strong feelings and opinions tied to this case," Cruz said outside the courthouse. "However, our job is to set aside our feelings and focus solely on the facts. The facts are Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and the evidence suggested to us that she was in control of her actions when she committed those homicides."
The two sides are scheduled to be in court on Sept. 29 to determine next steps following the mistrial.
Reddington said he was "upset" with the mistrial because of information he said the jury foreperson provided about the lone juror holdout, whom Reddington has said was a male juror.
"He had agreed, according to the note from the forelady, that he had doubt but he would not present the law of reasonable doubt as presented by the judge," Reddington said. "That's not right and that's why I was upset."
Jurors in Massachusetts are instructed that in order to prove a defendant is criminally responsible for their conduct, prosecutors must "prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not suffer from a mental disease or defect at the time of the alleged offense," according to