Did Lindsay Clancy’s Prosecutors Cost Themselves the Verdict?

The prosecution in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial made a strategic choice: argue that her fall from a second-story window was not a genuine attempt on her life and that her injuries were superficial. Clancy sat in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, while the jury heard it.

Eleven of twelve jurors reportedly sided with the defense. The trial ended in a mistrial after seven days of deliberation at Plymouth Superior Court. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington blamed the prosecution’s tactics and said the jury had been “robbed” by the lone holdout.

Reddington’s legal maneuvers in the trial’s final hours were aggressive. He asked Judge Sullivan to dismiss the holdout juror. Sullivan refused. He asked for a lesser-charge poll. Sullivan refused. He filed an emergency petition with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The court denied it.

Separately, a 56-year-old woman named Dawn Light was arrested during deliberations for allegedly filming jurors in a courthouse parking lot. She was charged with aggravated intimidation. Reddington has said he will demand the next jury be sequestered.

DA Timothy Cruz defended his prosecution and said he would decide on a retrial shortly. The case relied on the McHoul standard, which asks jurors to assess whether a defendant had substantial capacity to appreciate wrongfulness.

Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines whether the prosecution’s framing of Clancy’s injuries alienated the jury, what the emergency petition reveals about the defense’s confidence, and whether the insanity standard itself is the problem.

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