Lindsay Clancy ‘nervous’ as jury deliberations continue, attorney says — 7:15 p.m.
By Nick Stoico, Globe Staff
Lindsay Clancy is “nervous” as she awaits a verdict in her murder trial, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Monday after jurors were sent home for the day without reaching a decision.
The jury will return to Plymouth Superior Court on Tuesday morning after deliberating for about 17 hours over three days.
Outside court Monday afternoon, Reddington was swarmed by dozens of reporters and photographers as he left the courthouse and made his way to his car.
He declined to say what Clancy had told him while waiting for a verdict.
“I don’t share what clients say to me,” he said.
Asked how she was handling the wait for a verdict, he replied: “She’s nervous, obviously.”
Reddington said he was not reading into anything about the length of deliberations, given the amount of evidence jurors have to review after more than five weeks of testimony.
“They could be out for a week. They could be out for another day,” he said. “I don’t know.”
Reddington praised the jury as “very, very attentive” throughout the trial, noting that no jurors have called in sick or otherwise dropped out.
“They’re really focused people, and they’re doing their due diligence,” he said. “It’s a credit to the jury system when you think about it.”
Reddington also said Clancy has received “three banker boxes” full of letters from supporters. He said she reads every one.
He said the letters have given her support by showing “that there are people out there that have not judged her.”
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington hopes Lindsay Clancy trial draws attention to postpartum psychosis
Judge sends jury home — 3:51 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Judge Wiliam Sullivan said from the bench that he was sending the jury home until Tuesday morning, when they’ll continue deliberating.
“Stay the course,” Sullivan said as he reminded them not to consume any outside coverage of the case or discuss it with anyone overnight.
Court was then adjourned.
Jury to be sent home for the day — 3:46 p.m.
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
Jurors have been deliberating Lindsay Clancy’s fate for 17 hours over three days and are about to be excused for the day.
The courtroom is packed, mostly with members of the media, as Judge William Sullivan took the bench.
“We will bring the jury in, they have asked to go home for the evening,” Sullivan said.
Jurors in Clancy case are reviewing nearly 300 exhibits in the case — 3:30 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
As the jury deliberates for a third day, it’s worth noting that they are reviewing testimony from 84 witnesses over 21 days, including contradictory assessments of Clancy’s mental state from experts on both sides.
They must also sift through nearly 300 exhibits, including crime scene photographs and thousands of pages of Clancy’s medical records and related investigatory reports.
How do the Clancy jury deliberations compare to other big local cases? — 3:24 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Jurors in the Clancy case have deliberated for about 16 hours as of 3 p.m. Monday without reaching a verdict. How does that compare to other high-profile cases in recent memory?
The second Karen Read jury deliberated for about 22 hours before acquitting her in June 2025 of killing her boyfriend in January 2022 in Canton. Her first trial had ended in a hung jury after jurors remained deadlocked following nearly a week of deliberations.
Jurors in the trial of Brian Walshe, by contrast, needed just five-and-a-half hours to convict him in December of first-degree murder in the slaying and dismemberment of his wife in Cohasset in early January 2023.
In February 2024, jurors deliberated over six days before finding Emmanuel Lopes guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shootings of Weymouth police Sergeant Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams, who were killed on July 15, 2018.
The verdict came after the first trial of Lopes, who like Clancy had mounted an insanity defense, ended in a hung jury following nearly two weeks of deliberations.
After hearing testimony from 84 witnesses over 21 days, including conflicting assessments from mental health specialists, jurors in the Clancy case are tasked with determining whether she could appreciate right from wrong when she strangled her three children in their Duxbury home. Under state law, the prosecution has the burden to prove she was criminally responsible beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hurry up and wait — 2:38 p.m.
By Jenna Perlman, Globe Staff
The name of the game is hurry up and wait.
As jurors reached 15 and a half hours of deliberations, dozens of reporters, members of the media, and some Lindsay Clancy supporters line the hallway outside of the courtroom.
All the bench space has been taken up, and some have resorted to sitting on the floor, or have chosen to stand. Many are on their computers and cell phones, working. Some are softly chatting, the noise bouncing off the tall ceilings of the Plymouth Superior Court house.
Clancy jurors have deliberated for roughly 15 hours — 2:35 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Jurors weighing the fate of Lindsay Clancy have now deliberated for roughly 15 hours without reaching a verdict in her murder trial.
That mark was hit around 2:30 p.m. Monday, after jurors returned from a lunch break. Jurors have not sent any questions Monday to Judge William Sullivan.
Woman who dealt with postpartum issues praises Clancy’s lawyer outside court — 1:43 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
A woman who said she struggled with postpartum issues approached Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, outside court Monday with her mother to praise his work defending Clancy against murder charges.
“I wish someone would have helped my daughter,” the woman’s mother said as she moved in to give Reddington a hug while the lawyer was surrounded by reporters. “God bless you.”
Her daughter, who identified herself as Hannah, added, “we want to take you out for a steak dinner, Mr. Reddington. We love you so much.”
She said she had “an issue” in family court when her mental health was “weaponized” against her after she experienced postpartum challenges when her son was 8 months old.
“You’re the voice of so many moms,” her mother told Reddington.
Hannah added that she knows what Clancy went through, telling Reddington, “I feel it.”
Hannah and her mother said they traveled to Plymouth from Houston to show their support for Clancy.
Jury takes a lunch break — 1:07 p.m.
By Jenna Perlman and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
The jury broke for lunch at 1 p.m. and will resume deliberations around 2 p.m., a court officer said.
Quiet scene outside Plymouth Superior Court, but a few Clancy supporters gathers — 12:47 p.m.
By Jenna Perlman, Globe Staff
As the jury deliberated inside the courthouse, a group of women sat outside on benches facing each other. One handed out water. Another joked with the woman beside her.
“I expected more of a ‘Karen Read’ kind of chaos,” said Mary Drysdale.
“It’s kinda chill.”
Drysdale retired on Friday from Best of Care, where she was an intake director for more than a decade. On her first day of retirement, she found herself outside the courthouse.
“I woke up and was like, ‘maybe I’ll go to the beach,’’’ she said. But then I was like, ‘no I’ll go to Plymouth.’”
On Thursday, the day of closing arguments and the start of jury deliberations, dozens of pink-clad Clancy supporters gathered outside Plymouth Superior Court. On Friday and again today, there were more media members than supporters, but those that are here are passionate.
“I just have a lot of questions,” said Niurka De Jesus, a mental health provider in Boston. “It compels me to want to support [Clancy] in any way, shape, or form that I can.”
As the jury deliberates, a look back at a key ruling late in the trial — 12:00 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
As jurors continue to deliberate on Monday, here are some excerpts from Judge William Sullivan’s ruling last week denying the defense’s motion for a mistrial based on a prosecution witness who started to discuss Catholic doctrine on the stand.
Sullivan wrote that the defense had sought the mistrial on the grounds that testimony from Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a government expert who interviewed Clancy, was prejudicial.
Heibrun had testified that Clancy indicated her “expectation that she and the children would be together in heaven with God” following the killings and her own suicide, Sullivan said.
“She was raised as a Catholic and this is as I understand Catholic considerations that’s not necessarily what happens, but when I asked her about that, when I said isn’t suicide a mortal sin?” Heilbrun said as Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, objected.
Sullivan said it’s “well established” that religious beliefs are not admissible to attack the credibility of a witness. But after telling the jury to disregard the testimony, the judge said the error didn’t rise to the level of warranting a mistrial.
“In the present case, the offered evidence was excluded, in part, as it relied upon an unsupported inference that all Catholics agree with all teachings of the Catholic Church,” Sullivan wrote. “In addition, the witness was not qualified to render an opinion as to the Catholic Church’s teaching.”
Sullivan said he “weighed the alternatives to a mistrial and chose to strike the objected-to testimony and issued an instruction to disregard the area of inquiry as it was inappropriate.”
‘Do it right,’ Kevin Reddington says to media outside court — 9:50 a.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington paused outside court Monday morning to criticize coverage of the high-profile case by Fox media personalities Nancy Grace and Sean Hannity.
He said Hannity’s weekend coverage was “horrific,” citing the host “and his men discussing every little inch of Lindsay’s symptoms and criticizing. Nancy Grace, to coin the phrase the ‘Queen of Mean,’ who misrepresents facts. I challenge Nancy Grace to show us where Lindsay Clancy ever said, ever googled, ‘how to kill.’ Words that came out of [Grace’s] mouth. And these things hurt. These things hurt people.”
Then he name-checked Globe reporter Shelley Murphy, who’s covering the trial for the paper, along with Bob Ward, a Boston 25 News reporter with a focus on crime.
“If you’re going to be a journalist, do it right,” Reddington said. “Be a Bob Ward. Be a Shelley Murphy. Do it right.”
‘Do it right,’ Kevin Reddington says to media outside court
Jurors resume deliberations — 9:15 a.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Judge Williams Sullivan sent jurors back out to resume their deliberations.
This is the third day of deliberations, which have lasted about 10.5 hours so far.
Court begins for the day — 9:14 a.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Judge William Sullivan got on the bench around 9:15 a.m. and greeted the parties before the jury entered.
Jurors entered the courtroom soon after, and Sullivan ran through his standard questions to ensure they avoided outside coverage of the case.
By Ariela Lopez and Shelley Murphy Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff
Coffee shop employees handed out free drinks to passersby. Meanwhile, spectators who have watched the Lindsay Clancy trial unfold milled about outside the courthouse, waiting. A couple carried signs.
Even as jurors deliberated, with no public proceedings taking place, the Clancy trial in Plymouth Superior Court drew widespread attention and activity outside, as the public awaits to hear her fate.
Here’s what happened during Friday’s jury deliberations — 8:33 a.m.
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
Judge William F. Sullivan summoned Clancy’s lawyer and prosecutors to a sidebar to discuss the jury’s question, but ended the session without publicly disclosing what it was.
Jury questions, and answers, are considered part of the public record and it’s highly unusual for them not to be publicly disclosed.
Reddington later said the question from jurors was a request to see Clancy’s prescription pill bottles and the knife she used to slit her wrists and neck. They were exhibits in the case but had not been sent to the jury room.
Jurors may review all of the evidence in the case, and the medications and knife were sent back to the jury room upon request. They weren’t initially provided, along with other exhibits, because they are narcotics and a weapon.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Shelley Murphy can be reached at shelley.murphy@globe.com. Follow her @shelleymurph. Jenna Reyes can be reached at jenna.reyes@globe.com. Follow her @jennaelaney and Instagram @jennaelaney.
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