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Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case asked a question on Friday, Aug. 28, after less than five hours of deliberations in the high-profile Massachusetts murder trial.
The jury asked Judge William Sullivan to view empty pill bottles and the knife found on the nightstand in the Clancys' upstairs bedroom, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told The Patriot Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Sullivan spoke with attorneys at sidebar about the request, but the discussion was inaudible to observers in the courtroom at Plymouth Superior Court.
The request gave a first glimpse of what
may be happening in the deliberation room as jurors weigh whether the 36-year-old is guilty of murder in the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children.
A jury of 12 – nine women and three men – plus six alternates began deliberations on Thursday, Aug. 27, after hearing weeks of testimony from more than 80 witnesses.
Clancy is facing three counts of murder in deaths of her children – Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months – at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home. She has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then, while he was gone, strangled the children with exercise bands. Afterward, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.
Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argues that she is not guilty because she lacks criminal responsibility – more commonly known as an insanity defense – because she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis at the time of the killings.
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