A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial Friday in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy after jurors reported they could not reach a unanimous decision in the deaths of her three young children. The panel had spent a week deliberating at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth before Judge William Sullivan ended the trial.

The decision came after a tense courtroom battle over what the defense described as an 11-1 split among jurors. Clancy’s attorneys argued that the lone dissenting juror had expressed uncertainty but was not properly following the judge’s instructions on the legal standard of reasonable doubt.

The holdout juror is believed to be one of the three men on the 12-member jury. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington repeatedly referred to the unidentified juror as male both in court and while speaking publicly outside the courthouse.

LINDSAY CLANCY MURDER TRIAL ENDS IN MISTRIAL AFTER JURY DEADLOCK IN CASE INVOLVING DEATHS OF HER THREE CHILDREN

Reddington sharply criticized the outcome after leaving court, telling reporters, “[The other jurors] know that they were robbed — by one man — for whatever his agenda was, who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors that were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful and listened to this evidence.”

“And you could see how defeated they were sitting there. And I got a funny feeling they could go one for another week if they had to. So, I hope that guy can sleep well at night.” 

Also speaking outside the courthouse, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz acknowledged the victims in this case — the Clancy children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. 

“It is our job to make sure the victims are not invisible,” Cruz said. “I am a father and a grandfather, and I cannot imagine the hell this entire family has lived through.”

Clancy’s attorneys made an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in an attempt to stay the mistrial and force further inquiry into the juror. Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt denied the request Friday afternoon, clearing the way for Sullivan to formally declare the mistrial.

Clancy had been charged with first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children, each of whom had been strangled with exercise bands.

The trial centered on whether she was legally responsible for her actions at the time, and the defense argued she wasn’t due to postpartum psychosis.

Her attorneys argued that severe mental illness left her unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of what she was doing or unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.

Prosecutors maintained that Clancy remained criminally responsible and pointed to evidence they said showed planning, purposeful behavior and an awareness of what she was doing before, during and after the killings.

During the trial, Clancy’s former husband, Patrick Clancy, testified about the day of the slayings, which happened while he was running errands that included picking up children’s stool softener at a CVS store and takeout for dinner. They spoke on the phone while he was out.

Under Massachusetts law, once lack of criminal responsibility is properly raised, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was criminally responsible.

The mistrial means the case ended without a verdict, and Clancy was neither convicted nor acquitted. Prosecutors can seek to retry her but have not yet announced a decision.

Sullivan said he wants the case retried “sooner rather than later,” suggesting a new trial could potentially take place later this fall. Clancy is due back in court Sept. 29 for a status hearing, trial assignment and a defense Rule 25 motion.

All previous bail orders remain in effect.

The mistrial followed a trial that focused extensively on Clancy’s psychiatric condition in the months and weeks before the children died.

Jurors heard testimony about her treatment by mental health professionals, psychiatric medications, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other symptoms documented before the killings.

On Jan. 24, 2023, authorities responded to the Clancy family’s Duxbury home after Patrick Clancy returned and found his wife seriously injured outside the house.

The couple’s three children were found inside.

Cora and Dawson died that night. Callan was taken to a hospital and died several days later.

Lindsay Clancy survived after jumping from a second-story window and suffered injuries that left her paralyzed in a wheelchair.

The prosecution and defense offered sharply different explanations for what happened before the children were killed.

The defense had argued that the deaths occurred after months of worsening psychiatric symptoms and treatment and that Clancy’s mental condition had deteriorated to the point she could not legally be held criminally responsible.

Specifically, the defense contended that Clancy heard a male voice that commanded her to kill her three children. Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist, said it was almost as if she was a “puppet.”

“Not only did she hear a command, but she felt that her body was taken over by an external force where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body. It was almost like she was a puppet, and someone else was pulling the strings,” Resnick said.

However, prosecutors rejected that claim, and their experts argued Clancy deliberately created an opportunity to be alone with the children and intentionally killed them.

Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who consults the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, told jurors Clancy’s self-described auditory hallucinations were “very unusual.”

“What was significant to me is that she had not spoken about hearing voices before to any of the mental health professionals, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physicians and staff in the emergency department or at McLean,” Saathoff said.

“This was the first time she reported that, and that she experienced an auditory hallucination, according to what she told me. So, that was unusual. And then what was very unusual was the fact that the voice stopped with the strangling of her youngest son.”

During the trial, members of Clancy’s family revealed they were “very concerned” about her mental health in the months before she killed her three kids.

Susan Clancy, Lindsay’s mother-in-law, told jurors she was concerned about Lindsay’s mental health during the holiday season in 2022 but said she was a caring mother.

“Lindsay was struggling. We were all very concerned,” Susan Clancy said. “She was very nurturing, very loving. She was a wonderful mother. Wonderful.

“She was begging for help.”

Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy’s mother, also told jurors about the mental health problems. In an Oct. 20, 2022 text message, Lindsay Clancy asked her mother for help.

“Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I’m really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don’t know how I am going to get through the day. … It’s just really scary, and I don’t want to be alone,” the text read.

Each night after work, from her home in the Midwest, she would go online to follow the latest developments.

More than 1,000 miles away in Massachusetts, a trial was unfolding involving a young mother accused of killing her three children. Her attorney argued that the tragedy was rooted in her worsening mental health, repeated pleas for help that went unanswered, and breakdowns within the medical system.

Her own life bore little resemblance to the woman at the center of the case — she is a business executive in her 40s and has no children — but she acknowledged being deeply drawn to the story.

Moved by what she saw as the mother’s suffering, she contributed several thousand dollars to a GoFundMe campaign created to support the family.

‘I was just trying to do something nice, and I have no regrets,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘But it definitely took a turn.’

Today this donor is speaking on condition of anonymity and for good reason. Within hours of making her donation strangers began requesting money from her on Venmo and on her social media. And they attacked her generosity: ‘They would say things like, why are you helping a baby killer?’

The question hangs over the Lindsay Clancy case.

And it overshadows the outpouring of support for her.

Clancy, a 36-year-old nurse, has admitted to strangling her three children in January 2023 – five-year-old Cora; Dawson, aged three; and eight-month-old Callan.

A jury was tasked with debating whether she murdered the three, or was not guilty by reason of postpartum psychosis.

But more than 30,000 people had already made up their minds and put their money where their mouths are: donating to the GoFundMe set up to support her family. In a little over two weeks the campaign has raised more than $1.05 million, with the funds going to Lindsay’s parents – Michael Musgrove, 70, recently retired from his sales job at a student portrait company, and his wife Paula, 73, who worked for Weight Watchers before her retirement.

The generosity is remarkable, but it has also raised questions. What will the cash be used for?

A GoFundMe created by the brother of George Floyd, murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, in May 2020, raised a record-breaking $13 million. Some of the cash has been distributed to community funds, and some will be bequeathed to his young daughter.

Who are the people behind the Lindsay Clancy parental campaign? And why are strangers from around the world opening their wallets for the parents of a child killer?

Perhaps most surprising is that the woman who launched the GoFundMe, declaring daily her passionate support for the Musgroves, has never actually met them.

‘I don’t know them,’ said Brandee Mulligan, a 42-year-old mother of three from the Wisconsin town of Oconomowoc, 30 miles west of Milwaukee.

‘I just was one of the millions of people watching the case, and I was like, what can we do? And so, I put it together and the response has been overwhelming. There’s so many people that want to support it and it’s been incredible.’

Mulligan told the Daily Mail that she initially wanted to help pay for the lawyer directly but learnt that since 2021 GoFundMe’s terms have prohibited ‘the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors.’

GoFundMe has taken down fundraisers set up for Luigi Mangione, who pled guilty to interstate stalking leading to death in the December 2024 shooting of healthcare executive Brian Thompson and Karmelo Anthony, the Texas teenager found guilty of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death during an April 2025 high school track meet in Frisco.

They also removed fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse, accused but ultimately acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha in 2020, and Daniel Penny, also acquitted of killing a restive homeless man on a New York City subway in 2023.

Supporters of Mangione, Anthony, Rittenhouse and others circumvented the rules by turning to GiveSendGo – an alternative platform, which allows donations up until the point an accused person is convicted.

So Mulligan, instead of paying for Clancy’s legal fees, decided to help the Musgroves with their expenses – whatever they may be.

‘I’m an impulsive person and I use TikTok and I’m like, here’s my idea, OK, I’ll just do it,’ she said. ‘I don’t have any contact with them. I did it without even asking permission and it was just kind of an, “Oh my God, I hope this works out,” kind of thing.’

Clancy is represented by Kevin Reddington, a well-known criminal defense attorney who has worked on over 100 murder cases, famously representing the girlfriend of mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.

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The 75-year-old, known for his passion for martial arts, usually commands $550 an hour and in 2002 was named the state’s best criminal defense attorney by Boston Magazine.

He has won praise from Clancy’s supporters for his compassionate gestures – rubbing her shoulders or holding her hand at times of tension and wearing a pink tie in a show of support.

Mulligan began commenting on the case on August 6 – opening statements were on July 27 – and by August 7 she was telling her 115,000 followers on TikTok: ‘We’re setting up a GoFundMe for Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, right? Like, that’s what’s happening. So, tell me what to do, or someone else needs to set it up. This needs to be done.’

On August 11 she announced: ‘All right, I did it. I set up a GoFundMe – it’s linked and it’s all listed, and I’m not accessing any of the money – and they are fully aware that I am not able to reach any of the family to do this. So, I’m not doing it on their behalf. Once we make contact, they are going to be the beneficiaries, and it goes to them – everything goes to them. It’s for Lindsay Clancy’s parents and they use it however they need to use it.’

On August 15, when $400,000 had been added in the previous 24 hours, Mulligan said: ‘Mike Musgrove reached out to me this morning to extend their heartfelt appreciation to everyone that is a part of this. And trust me when I say they mean it.’

Two days later, on August 17, Paula Musgrove took the stand in her daughter’s defense and talked the jury through the toll the case has taken on their family.

Immediately after the killings, the Musgroves relocated 150 miles from their Wallingford, Connecticut home to their daughter’s coastal hometown of Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Paula testified that they had been staying in a series of hotels.

The Musgroves were not wealthy before the tragedy – they bought the three-bedroom home where they raised Lindsay and her social worker sister Allison, 38, for $172,000 in 1996.

‘They’re good people – good, hard-working, regular, middle-class people,’ said John Roarke, their neighbor and a retired New Haven firefighter, speaking to CT Insider earlier this month. ‘They took good care of their kids.’

Lindsay’s ex-husband Patrick sold their marital home in Duxbury 12 months after the tragedy, with the property selling for $675,000.

A month after the sale was finalized, Patrick filed for divorce. It is not known how the proceeds of the house were divided.

He now lives in New York City and has remarried.

A relative of Patrick’s launched a GoFundMe in the immediate aftermath of the children’s death, to support Patrick with ‘medical bills, funeral services and legal help.’ The effort raised $1.08 million.

He has since launched The Heard Foundation, dedicated ‘to reimagine perinatal mental-health care, to build a dedicated treatment center where parents can heal with dignity and support, and to foster a culture of kindness and connection so no one struggles alone.’

The organization is currently working to create Massachusetts’ first dedicated postpartum treatment center, according to the website.

Mulligan and her supporters, however, are focused on helping the Musgrove family.

Lindsay was left paralyzed from the waist down when, having killed her children, she jumped out of a second-story window in an apparent suicide bid. Prosecutors contend that the attempt was staged and her injuries the result of misjudging the hardness of the frozen ground.

Her medical needs have so far been covered by the state, but if she is ever released she will require specialized care and a modified home for her wheelchair.

Under Massachusetts law, detention for psychiatric reasons is reviewed regularly: if found not guilty, she could be freed in a matter of years.

‘Her parents have had literally their whole lives uprooted,’ said Mulligan. ‘The support is to Paula and Mike, but in some ways it’s because they’re supporting Lindsay.’

The midwestern donor who spoke with the Daily Mail said she doesn’t mind what the money is spent on, and trusts it will be used wisely, for whatever need is most pressing.

‘I feel in no way that those funds will be mismanaged,’ she said. ‘I’m happy to help in any way.’

Not everyone is so trusting, or so inclined to help. For some, however sincere Mulligan’s intentions, it is simply impossible to square the fact that the accumulation of a fortune should follow on from the death of three little children.

For now, Jeanie Buss is still the Lakers’ governor.

That status, however, suddenly feels far less settled as the Los Angeles Lakers navigate another dramatic chapter in their ongoing ownership shake-up.

A major shift in control is on the way after Mark Walter agreed to sell his Lakers stake to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger in a deal valuing the iconic NBA franchise at a record-setting $12.5 billion. The move comes less than a year after Walter purchased the team from the Buss family.

Meanwhile, Jeanie Buss and the rest of the Buss family are headed back to court. Jeanie is seeking to stop her five siblings — Jim, Johnny, Janie, Joey and Jesse Buss — from selling the family’s remaining 17.8% interest in the Lakers.

The legal fight, whose first hearing has been delayed from Nov. 5 to Dec. 8, could play a major role in shaping the Lakers’ power structure and behind-the-scenes future.

If Jeanie Buss’ siblings are able to sell the ownership stake, then she won’t be able to remain the Lakers’ governor. 

If Buss is successful with blocking her siblings’ attempted sale, she’ll retain the ownership stake in the Lakers (through the Buss family trust) required for her to remain the franchise’s governor (at least 15%, by league rules).

But it doesn’t end there.

A source close to the NBA told The Post’s Charles Gasparino that Kushner will be the Lakers’ governor once he and Iger’s purchase is official.

Which makes sense. 

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As The Post reported, Iger is expected to be most actively involved in the Lakers’ day-to-day operations between him and Kushner. 

But with Kushner being the person expected to have the largest shares of the Lakers, as if Iger doesn’t have the minimum 15% ownership stake required to be an NBA franchise’s governor, Kushner being in the role would be appropriate. 

But there’s a conflict: Iger told The Post in the immediate aftermath of the sale that he and Kushner intended to honor the agreement made between Walter and Buss that would have Buss remain the franchise’s governor through at least 2030. 

That comment came with a very important caveat.

“If things change, they’ll change,” Iger told The Post at the time. “But we’re going into this with enormous respect and appreciation for who [Buss] is and what she represents in the organization.”

Change appeared to be on the horizon when the Buss siblings announced their wishes to sell their ownership stake of the Lakers. But that change may not happen if Jeanie Buss gets her wish and has the attempted sale legally blocked.

It’s part of the reason the Lakers’ plans under new ownership aren’t known.

Not just because there isn’t precedent of a Kusher/Iger-led regime for an NBA franchise. 

But because what will be the Lakers’ internal hierarchy isn’t clear.  

And with the majority ownership sale not official and still under review from the league, and the Buss family’s court date pushed back a month, those answers will likely take a while to gather.

An officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded not guilty Friday to allegations that he misled investigators about the January shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, an incident tied to the Trump administration’s intensified illegal immigration enforcement push.

Christian Castro appeared in federal court in Texas, where newly unsealed court records show he is facing six counts accusing him of making “materially false” statements to investigators. Authorities said Castro surrendered Thursday evening.

The judge allowed Castro to be released on a $75,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to wear an ankle monitor while the case proceeds.

The charges stem from the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan man who was shot in the leg. Moments earlier, Castro and his partner attempted to stop a vehicle.

The driver, also a Venezuelan citizen, fled, triggering a foot chase.

Castro caught up to the driver and a physical struggle ensued, according to the indictment. Sosa-Celis attempted to help the driver, and they both fled into a nearby apartment duplex and shut the door.

Castro drew his service weapon and fired a single shot through the front door, striking Sosa-Celis in the leg, federal prosecutors said.

Two 1-year-old children and two women were inside the home when Castro opened fire, prosecutors added.

In an attempt to justify the shooting, Castro allegedly told investigators he was brutally assaulted by multiple individuals wielding tools, claiming he was hit with a broom and a snow shovel during the confrontation. He also claimed he was on his back when he fired toward the fleeing men, officials said.

However, video evidence later contradicted those statements, prompting an investigation. Federal prosecutors said Castro was standing up when he opened fire, and they disputed his claim that he fought the suspect on the ground for three minutes, noting the struggle actually lasted about 11 seconds.

The shooting occurred amid a targeted crackdown on illegal immigration in Minneapolis.

Castro faces separate charges in Minnesota and was previously arrested in Texas in May.

His case has sparked a legal battle involving Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has refused to extradite him to Minnesota.