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Twelve jurors. Five weeks of testimony. Not one verdict.
Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended the way a lot of people watching this case predicted it might — in a deadlock. The Duxbury, Massachusetts mother, 34, was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation in the January 24, 2023 deaths of her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home. She pleaded not guilty. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington built his case on an insanity defense, arguing severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. After the killings, Clancy allegedly tried to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window; she's been paralyzed from the waist down since. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan, where he's spoken openly about her mental health.
The jury — nine women, three men — deliberated more than 39 hours across seven days and told Judge William F. Sullivan three times they were deadlocked. Reddington tried to pull a holdout juror off the panel at the eleventh hour, then took the fight to the state's highest court when Sullivan wouldn't budge. The court denied it. Sullivan had no choice left — he declared a mistrial.
Now it's on Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz to decide whether Massachusetts tries this case again with twelve new people in the box. He's not deciding today. What's already on the books: a status and motion hearing September 29. The case isn't closed. It's on pause.
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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court has generated three simultaneous crises, each with the potential to reshape the case's trajectory.
First, the jury has been unable to reach a verdict after days of deliberation. They have told the judge they are stuck. He read them the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction—the last tool Massachusetts gives a deadlocked jury—and they remained deadlocked. The impasse centers on a psychiatric dispute twelve lay people cannot resolve.
Second, a woman was arrested outside the courthouse for filming the jurors as they left. Police found deleted videos on her phone. The judge questioned each juror individually before allowing deliberations to resume. Any verdict that emerges now carries the shadow of documented outside interference.
Third, if a mistrial is declared, the defense has options that extend well beyond a conventional retrial. Kevin Reddington can request a bench trial, putting the case before a judge instead of twelve jurors. He can renew the bifurcation motion the judge denied pretrial. He enters the next phase with strategic options that did not exist before the first trial.
Massachusetts has retried cases after hung juries before. Karen Read was acquitted at retrial. Emanuel Lopes was convicted. The precedent goes both ways.
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers the deadlock, the arrest, and every path forward.
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Lori Vallow Daybell's appellate attorney wants the Idaho Supreme Court to erase every conviction or order a new trial. The state's 59-page response says she built the very problems she's complaining about. She was found incompetent twice — 353 days in state hospitals — and then filed a speedy trial claim over the delay she caused. She moved to change venue and then argued the timeline violated her rights.
The appeal's strongest claim involves her defense attorney Mark Means. Chad Daybell arranged and paid for Means while they were co-conspirators in a capital case. A recorded jail call captured Chad calling Means "my attorney." The judge removed Means for a documented conflict. Durham argues the removal process was unconstitutional because it happened in a courtroom Lori wasn't allowed into while she was too sick to understand what was happening.
The oral arguments are set for November 2 at the Idaho Supreme Court in Boise. This hearing is standard under Idaho appellate rules, not a special grant. Lori Vallow Daybell won't attend. She is serving seven life sentences across Idaho and Arizona, and even if every Idaho conviction is reversed, two Arizona life sentences remain untouched. The families of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow are watching the system work through a process that cannot free her.
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If the Lindsay Clancy jury hangs, the next step is not predetermined. The DA can retry, negotiate, or drop the charges. But the defense also has moves, and the most significant one has barely been discussed.
Massachusetts allows a defendant to waive the right to a jury trial. Kevin Reddington could request a bench trial, putting the case before a single judge instead of twelve jurors. The argument writes itself: if the reason this jury deadlocked is that lay people cannot resolve a dispute between psychiatric experts, a judge who has spent a career evaluating expert testimony is better equipped to answer the question.
That option has a cost. A jury requires twelve votes to convict. A judge requires one decision. Waiving the jury removes the protection that unanimity provides.
Reddington also has the bifurcation motion. He asked to split the trial into two phases before this one began, and the judge denied it. A hung jury strengthens the argument. If granted, a retrial could focus exclusively on criminal responsibility—the question this jury could not resolve—rather than relitigating physical evidence the defense has already conceded.
The DA's posture matters too. Cruz charged first-degree murder. He has not reduced the charges. A retrial means eighty-plus witnesses return. It means Clancy goes through the autopsy photographs again.
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines each path, the legal standard for a bench trial in Massachusetts, and what the depth of the deadlock tells the system about whether this case has an answer.
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Dan Markel's mother-in-law Donna Adelson allegedly offered him a million dollars to let her daughter and grandchildren relocate to South Florida. He refused. A judge had already denied the move. Prosecutors say the family that couldn't accept "no" from a courtroom or a checkbook turned to two hitmen from Miami instead.Markel was an FSU law professor, 41 years old, shot twice in the head in his Tallahassee garage on July 18, 2014 — the same morning his ex-wife had a Geek Squad technician at her house repairing the TV her brother gave her because it was "cheaper than hiring a hitman." The killers were traced through a toll transponder on a rental car in a city without toll roads. The money trail led to the Adelson dental practice near Fort Lauderdale — 44 checks signed by Donna to a woman who never worked there, $138,000 in documented payments.The FBI caught Charlie Adelson on tape at a Miami Beach restaurant in 2016 discussing the entire arrangement. When investigators bumped Donna with the killers' names, she called Charlie — three times. Five people are now serving prison sentences for the conspiracy. This is the first of a four-part series covering the entire case.
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