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Judge clears way for Lindsay Clancy to be retried on murder charges

The Guardian·Reuters·about 17 hours ago
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A Massachusetts judge cleared the way on Monday for Lindsay Clancy to be tried again on ⁠murder charges for killing her three young children at her home in 2023, saying a retrial would not unconstitutionally subject her to a ⁠double prosecution for the same ⁠crime.

Judge William ​Sullivan in Plymouth rejected a bid by Clancy’s attorneys to have the case against her dismissed. The judge on 4 September declared ⁠a mistrial after the jury reported that a holdout juror was preventing it from reaching a unanimous verdict.

The judge has scheduled a 16 November hearing to ⁠discuss when to hold a second trial, which he has suggested could occur in March.

No one ​at Clancy’s initial trial disputed that ‌she strangled daughter Cora, five; son ‌Dawson, three; and eight-month-old son Callan with exercise bands on 24 January 2023, in the ‌basement of their home in the Boston suburb of Duxbury.

She then cut herself with a knife and jumped from a second-story window in an attempt to end her own life, leaving her…

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