Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 30m
Clancy jury deadlock raises questions about insanity and retrial
BREAKING: Lindsay Clancy Jury Still Deadlocked - Is There ONE Holdout Left?
The unresolved jury dispute could determine whether the case ends in a verdict, mistrial, alternate-juror substitution, or another trial.
- 1A reported holdout has intensified questions about whether the jury is applying the reasonable-doubt and insanity instructions.
- 2The court must weigh continued deliberations against claims that one juror refuses to follow the law.
- 3Possible outcomes include a verdict, mistrial, alternate-juror replacement, retrial, or negotiated resolution.
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Kevin Reddington argues that one juror is refusing to follow the law, followed by the judge’s full reasonable-doubt instruction.
The brief
Megyn Kelly’s special live edition tracks a jury that remains deadlocked in the Lindsay Clancy trial, with uncertainty over whether a mistrial is imminent.
The judge reissues the reasonable-doubt instruction, prompting debate over whether individual juror questioning clarifies the law or pressures the panel to keep deliberating.
Reports that the foreperson identified a juror who will not follow the instructions shift the dispute from disagreement to whether that juror can legally remain.
The panel examines how insanity, murder, and lesser manslaughter charges could produce different divides, while Matt Murphy criticizes the prosecution’s brief closing argument.
With no verdict before the recess, the analysts map the consequences of alternate-juror substitution, mistrial, retrial, negotiation, and a possible acquittal by reason of insanity.
What was said on this episode
18 statements · 2 positive · 7 negative · 1 mixed · 8 neutral
Continued jury pressure may produce a compromise verdict, possibly involuntary manslaughter.
“if you keep pressuring the jury, it's more likely than they would find something to compromise on, perhaps the guilty on involuntary manslaughter.”
Listen at 3:03
Sending a deadlocked jury back to deliberate would violate Massachusetts law.
“If they were, in fact, deadlocked and he sent them back to deliberate again, that's a violation of the law in the state of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
Listen at 9:58
Sending a deadlocked jury back could constitute reversible error.
“That's a reversible error if he does that.”
Listen at 10:09
The reasonable-doubt instruction and moral-certainty language reflect Massachusetts law.
“that reasonable doubt instruction, that moral certainty, Ashley, that's the letter of the law in the state of Massachusetts.”
Listen at 16:54
Improperly removing a juror against the defense could virtually guarantee reversal on appeal.
“the court has to be very careful before they remove a juror because if if it goes against the defense that's just virtual guaranteed reversal on appeal if the court is not very careful”
Listen at 25:40
Massachusetts permits a criminally-not-responsible finding when mental illness prevents conduct control.
“Massachusetts has a third prong that even if they're mentally ill, even if they know what they're doing but are unable to control their conduct, they can be found criminally not responsible.”
Listen at 27:48
A genuine difference of opinion is not grounds to remove a juror if they follow instructions.
“if they all say that they are willing to continue to listen to the judge's instructions, follow the instructions, a difference of opinion.”
Listen at 31:14
Reddington believes the jury is 11–1 and wants the lone juror replaced.
“I think that that explains his frustration. He believes that he's got this 11 to 1. He believes that there is one juror that needs to be substituted with an alternate.”
Listen at 32:31
A post-mistrial resolution could involve voluntary manslaughter or concurrent sentences.
“there's a lot of ways you could sort of bake this pie, so to speak, that you could find a middle ground, like a voluntary manslaughter, or maybe you run the three deaths concurrent to one another.”
Listen at 34:09
The jury reached neither a verdict nor a mistrial declaration that day.
“we will have no verdict nor any declaration of a mistrial today.”
Listen at 39:58
A jury that does not look at the defendant is a negative trial signal.
“when the jury does not look. At your client, you're in trouble.”
Listen at 41:27
Kelly predicts the jury may declare itself hopelessly deadlocked before noon.
“Instead, they come back out and say hopelessly deadlacked by, you know, before noon tomorrow.”
Listen at 50:28
Replacing a deliberating juror requires the jury to restart deliberations.
“if a juror gets replaced by an alternate, the jury has to start all over again.”
Listen at 52:31
The jury note likely did not explicitly state an 11–1 acquittal split.
“the note. likely did not say, hey, judge, 11 of us want to acquit and only one of us want to convict.”
Listen at 55:51
Massachusetts prosecutors must disprove the insanity defense beyond reasonable doubt.
“the prosecutor bears the burden of disproving it beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Listen at 59:29
The jury must first determine whether Clancy had a mental disease or defect during the killings.
“First, whether Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the killings.”
Listen at 1:01:19
An 11–1 split against prosecution would likely lead to no retrial or a quick resolution.
“if the jury count is indeed 11 to 1 then i don't think they are going to recharge uh refile this case or if they do refile they will seek a quick resolution”
Listen at 1:16:56
The parties could resolve the case through a stipulated bench trial.
“They can do a stipulated bench trial.”
Listen at 1:17:33
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