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Holdout juror in Clancy case admitted ‘reasonable doubt,’ foreperson says

Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial after the Massachusetts jury could not reach a unanimous decision in the triple-murder case.

The holdout juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three children in 2023, admitted during deliberations “that he had reasonable doubt,” but refused to conclude she was not guilty by reason of insanity, the jury’s foreperson has said.

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