# The Clancy mistrial

True crime · Heat 1.1 / 10 · 4 shows · 4h 8m airtime

A mistrial was declared in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on September 4, 2026, after the jury deliberated seven days and deadlocked 11-1 for not guilty by reason of insanity. The defense's bid to replace the holdout was denied, and it has filed a post-discharge motion for a finding of not guilty. On September 29, Reddington and Martin Weinberg filed a double jeopardy motion arguing the judge lacked manifest necessity and should have questioned the holdout juror individually. The holdout, Michael Desrenville, says he was certain of Clancy's guilt and was cut off whenever he raised evidence theories. DA Tim Cruz has not decided whether to retry; Clancy remains on suicide watch, and the parties return in early November to…

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## Segments

- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 1:25 to 2:12: **Reports the hung jury and one-hour appeal**. Opens the show with the breaking news that the Lindsay Clancy jury is hung and the judge has declared a mistrial, and that Kevin Reddington has one hour to file an emergency appeal to a higher court. New angle: The judge gave Kevin Reddington one hour to file an emergency appeal to a higher appellate court to reverse the mistrial declaration.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:12 to 11:48: **Breaks down the emergency appeal and denial**. Legal panel works the mistrial and Reddington's emergency appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court, adding the foreperson's note that one juror has doubt but won't apply reasonable doubt, the judge's individual questioning and rereading of the instruction, and the appellate court's denial of relief. New angle: The appellate court denied the emergency request and lifted the temporary stay.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 1:25:02 to 1:35:44: **Notes the 2026 status date**. Notes the formal mistrial declaration and jury discharge, and adds the next scheduled step: a status and trial assignment date of September 29, 2026.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 1:35:59 to 1:54:43: **Adds defense motions after jury discharge**. Reacts to the mistrial declaration and the discharge of the jury, then adds the defense's next steps: a motion for required finding reconsideration within five days and a possible double jeopardy motion to dismiss.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 1:54:52 to 2:01:20: **Reports Cruz naming victims and deliberation time**. Covers DA Tim Cruz's post-mistrial press conference, where he thanks the jury and names the three child victims, and notes the jury deliberated six and a half days. New angle: The jury deliberated six and a half days; Cruz named the victims Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:01:20 to 2:21:24: **Debates retrial versus plea after Cruz**. Panel reacts to Tim Cruz's press conference and debates whether the DA retries the case or seeks a plea, weighing the 11-1 split and public sentiment. A retelling of the mistrial fallout, with no new facts on the record. New angle: Cruz said the evidence suggested Clancy was in control of her actions and that public sentiment never swayed him.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:21:24 to 2:23:43: **Plays audio and reports Clancy's wheelchair**. Plays the courtroom audio of Reddington asking the judge for time to file a single justice appeal, then covers his post-mistrial press conference, where he calls Lindsay Clancy a wonderful person and says she is in a wheelchair for life. New angle: Reddington says Lindsay Clancy is in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:23:43 to 2:27:13: **Criticizes Reddington's humanizing press conference**. Panel reaction to Reddington's post-mistrial press conference, criticizing his effort to humanize Lindsay Clancy and his plea that the public embrace her. It stays inside the mistrial fallout already on the record.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:27:13 to 2:29:15: **Recaps jury reactions to the mistrial**. Panel reacts to the mistrial declaration through courtroom color - a juror shaking her head, another clenching her fists - and speculates about what happens to the jury if the appellate court stays the order. It stays inside the day's coverage.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:29:15 to 2:32:34: **Explores postpartum illness and Clancy's dosing**. Panel segment on postpartum mental illness and the healthcare system, noting Clancy's Zoloft dosing history and that many women suffer postpartum illness without harming their children. It stays inside the case's established facts and the mistrial fallout.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 2:32:34 to 2:37:11: **Retells the mistrial aftermath and the hearing**. Panel segment on the mistrial's aftermath: the holdout juror, the emergency appellate request, and the September 29 hearing. It retells the day's developments and speculates about what the appellate justice might order, staying inside the record already set.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 0:01 to 1:12: **Reports the hung jury and frames intent**. Nancy Grace opens the episode reporting the hung jury and mistrial, framing the case as a question of intent at the time of the act rather than whether Clancy was a good or bad mother.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 1:12 to 1:42: **Reads Clancy's demeanor as the mistrial lands**. Reads Clancy's courtroom demeanor - grabbing her lawyer's hands, sobbing, hiding her face - as the mistrial is declared. Reaction and observation layered on the verdict already on the record, with no new fact about the case.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 1:42 to 2:41: **Recounts the mistrial mechanics**. Recounts the mistrial mechanics: the defense's emergency bid to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to swap the holdout for an alternate, the hour-long stay that stretched to two, and the judge declaring the mistrial only after that bid failed.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 2:17 to 3:38: **Details the failed bid to the state court**. Dave Mack details the defense's failed bid to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, including the argument that a juror was ignoring reasonable-doubt instructions and the ADA claim about bias over Clancy's mental illness.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 3:38 to 4:13: **Recaps the failed bid to swap the holdout**. Recaps the mistrial and the defense's failed bid to swap the holdout, adding the ADA framing the defense used to argue the juror was biased against Clancy's mental illness. It stays inside the day-of coverage already on the record. New angle: The defense motion to replace the juror cited the Americans with Disabilities Act, arguing bias against Clancy's mental illness.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 4:15 to 6:08: **Recounts seven days and three deadlock notes**. Recounts the mechanics of the deadlock: seven days of deliberation and three notes declaring an impasse, with the judge's last directive to weigh the evidence individually before the jury returned hung. New angle: The jury deliberated seven days and sent three notes saying they were at an impasse.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 12:38 to 15:55: **Debates force and intent after the mistrial**. Kessler and Grace argue force, intent and the insanity standard after the mistrial - the same ground the show has covered all week. Kessler's only new framing is that no motive other than psychosis makes sense; the rest is a retelling of the delusion-versus-planning fight.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 16:56 to 17:48: **Notes the Churchill invocation and jury instruction**. Notes the judge's Churchill invocation and his instruction that jurors should be proud of doing their duty when he declared the mistrial - courtroom color from the mistrial declaration itself. New angle: The judge invoked Winston Churchill and told jurors they should be proud of doing their duty.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-04, 21:52 to 23:39: **Reworks the intent and DNA evidence**. Nancy Grace and Dr. Arutt argue intent and the chicken nugget call, then the panel reworks the mixed-DNA and no-fingerprint evidence and the January 18 journal cutoff. All of it is already on the record from the deliberation and mistrial coverage.
- [Morning Wire](https://boilpoints.com/u/morningwire), 2026-09-04, 2:05 to 3:31: **Reports the mistrial and the 11-1 deadlock**. Reports the mistrial declaration and the jury's 11-1 deadlock, the denied emergency motion, and the judge's refusal to replace the holdout juror.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 0:00 to 0:26: **Announces the mistrial and previews what follows**. Cold open: announces the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case after a drama-filled day in court and a juror who allegedly refused to follow the law, then previews the breakdown and what comes next. No new facts beyond the week's coverage.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 0:26 to 0:48: **Plays courtroom audio of the mistrial call**. Courtroom audio of the judge announcing the SJC denied emergency relief, the temporary stay is lifted, and he will call the jurors back to declare a mistrial. It retells the mistrial moment already on the record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 0:48 to 2:08: **Recaps the mistrial and deliberation timeline**. Recaps the mistrial declaration and the deliberation timeline - nearly 40 hours, the rogue-juror note, the Supreme Judicial Court involvement - and restates the defense's postpartum psychosis argument against the prosecution's planning theory. A retelling that stays inside the week's coverage.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 2:01 to 2:41: **Recaps the jury note and turns to retrial**. Recaps the jury note and the back-and-forth over whether to question or dismiss the holdout, then the higher court's involvement - all ground already on the record from the mistrial's first day. The segment then turns to a defense-lawyer interview about a retrial.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 3:08 to 3:47: **Asks a defense lawyer about the hung jury**. Introduces Plymouth defense lawyer Matthew Tympanick and asks his reaction to the hung jury and mistrial, then recaps the prosecution's closing - the planned killing, the husband sent from the home, the three separate acts, the convenient voice. Reaction and retelling, no new record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 5:26 to 6:16: **Recaps the mistrial morning sequence**. Recaps the mistrial morning: the emergency motion filed as the jury was brought in, the one-hour deadline, the single justice hearing on Zoom, and the denial. It stays inside the procedural sequence already on the record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 6:16 to 7:00: **Recaps the failed bid to remove the holdout juror**. Recaps the defense's failed SJC bid to remove the holdout juror and the 11-1 split, then speculates about retrial and plea prospects. It stays inside the mistrial coverage already on the record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 8:22 to 9:14: **Explains the holdout juror and mistrial mechanics**. Walks through why Judge Sullivan refused to voir dire or replace the holdout juror, and why substituting a juror on a foreperson's accusation would set a dangerous precedent. It stays inside the mistrial mechanics already on the record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 9:14 to 9:37: **Recaps the emergency hearing and the denied motion**. Recaps the emergency hearing before a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court - the prosecution pushing for mistrial, the defense seeking relief, the motion denied - and then speculates about whether the defense knows the jury's split. It stays inside the mistrial coverage already on the record.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 9:40 to 10:49: **Walks the emergency bid to the justice**. Walks through the defense's emergency bid to the single justice: the Chapter 211 Section 3 interlocutory route, the request for an individual voir dire of the holdout, and the justice's reasoning that deliberations are sacred. Also notes the Rule 25(b)(2) motion and the September 29 hearing. New angle: Reddington filed under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 211 Section 3; the single justice denied the voir dire bid as an invasion of the jury's province.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 11:00 to 11:23: **Adds the political pressure on the DA**. Tympanick adds the political dimension: DA Cruz is a Republican under conservative-media pressure to seek life, and predicts the retrial realistically lands in 2027 given the fall calendar.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 11:23 to 12:37: **Games out the retrial timeline and jury split**. Weber and Tympanick game out the retrial: no plea to a lesser charge, a first-degree murder retrial likely in late winter or early spring 2027, and a walk through how the 11 jurors reconciled planning evidence with a lack-of-criminal-responsibility vote.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 12:37 to 14:01: **Argues removing the juror sets a precedent**. Tympanick argues that removing a juror over an accusation of not following the law would set a dangerous precedent and could taint deliberations or create appeal grounds, since alternates exist for illness or family crisis, not for a juror refusing to convict. Opinion and framing on the defense's already-recorded bid to replace the holdout.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 14:20 to 16:07: **Breaks down the mistrial mechanics and insanity outcome**. Weber and Tympanick take up the mechanics of the mistrial: Massachusetts law bars polling jurors on their votes, and Tympanick reads Reddington's courtroom reaction as a tell that the split was 11-1. The segment then walks through what a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity outcome would actually mean - civil commitment at Bridgewater, 60 days, then intermittent reviews, with Andrea Yates as the benchmark.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 16:09 to 17:26: **Notes the defense motion citing Massachusetts law 25B2**. Notes the defense's next filing after the mistrial: a motion for reconsideration invoking Massachusetts law 25B2, a post-discharge motion for a finding of not guilty. Explains why such motions almost never succeed - judges avoid invading the jury's province. New angle: Reddington filed a motion for reconsideration citing Massachusetts law 25B2, a post-discharge motion for a finding of not guilty.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 17:32 to 19:28: **Turns to the retrial scheduling and 2027 odds**. Turns to scheduling: the judge set the next hearing for September 29 at 9 a.m. and said he wants a retrial in the fall, while Tympanick predicts court calendars and holidays push it to 2027.
- [Law&Crime Sidebar](https://boilpoints.com/u/lawcrimesidebar), 2026-09-04, 24:42 to 25:27: **Reacts to the 11-1 holdout**. Weber's one-line sign-off: he expected a long deliberation but not an 11-1 holdout who allegedly ignored the law. Reaction and thanks, no new facts about the mistrial.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-08, 1:29 to 2:11: **Recaps the mistrial and the pardon request**. Opens the show with the mistrial and the pardon request, recapping the seven days of deliberations and Reddington's postpartum psychosis defense.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-08, 1:57 to 3:45: **Presses the incoherence of a state pardon**. Presses the pardon request: a president cannot pardon a state crime, so the ask is incoherent, and Stephanopoulos let it stand. Adds that Reddington floated a plea deal with DA Tim Cruz and that Patrick Clancy's attorney says the campaign against him hasn't slowed since the mistrial. New angle: Reddington said he is open to a plea deal with DA Tim Cruz rather than a retrial.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-08, 4:53 to 7:01: **Reads Cooper's statement on threats**. Reads a statement from Patrick Clancy's attorney, Howard Cooper, saying the campaign against him has brought threats to his reputation, livelihood and life, and that law enforcement has been notified. Also covers Reddington's hope for a plea deal with DA Tim Cruz. New angle: Patrick Clancy's attorney Howard Cooper says the campaign against him has produced threats, and law enforcement has been notified.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-08, 7:11 to 14:35: **Adds the 11-1 split and felony accusation**. Plays Reddington's post-mistrial clips and adds the jury's final 11-1 split, his felony accusation against the holdout juror, and Judge Sullivan's refusal to remove her - then argues the phone call mid-murders shows pre-planning.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-09, 0:04 to 1:09: **Reports the mistrial and the plea shift**. Reports the mistrial declaration and the defense's shift toward a possible plea, including Reddington's Good Morning America comments and the scheduled September 29 status hearing.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-09, 1:11 to 3:01: **Adds the defense posture and the defamation claim**. Adds the defense's earlier posture to the mistrial fallout: Reddington had said prosecutors wanted only triple homicide convictions and consecutive life sentences, appealed to Trump for a pardon, and walked back comments at the holdout juror. Also carries Howard Cooper's statement that law enforcement was notified of a defamation campaign against Patrick Clancy.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 0:47 to 1:35: **Recounts the deadlocked jury notes**. Recounts the deadlocked jury notes and the judge's mistrial declaration, then criticizes the defense attorney for attacking the holdout juror and the prosecution for its response to claims of insensitivity.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 1:35 to 2:15: **Reacts to the attack on the holdout juror**. Plays and reacts to Reddington's public attack on the holdout juror, adding the specific claim that the juror stole seven weeks from the other jurors. The outrage is new; the attack itself was already on the record. New angle: Reddington said the holdout juror stole seven weeks from the other jurors.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 3:57 to 4:36: **Notes Reddington's pardon request**. Nancy Grace notes Reddington is standing by his attacks on the holdout juror and has asked President Trump for a pardon for Lindsay Clancy, then turns to Dr. Bethany Marshall and defense attorney Mark Astor on the copycat case.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 9:24 to 10:57: **Reads the windowsill blood and plays the interview**. Shannon Hill, who was in the courtroom, reads the blood on the outer windowsill as evidence Clancy lowered herself before jumping; the segment then plays Reddington's GMA interview, where he says he crushed the prosecution and floats a Trump pardon.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 10:50 to 12:19: **Argues Reddington should be held in contempt**. Plays clips of Reddington doubling down on the holdout juror and argues he should be held in contempt - the same attack already on the record, plus a recap of the Walsh case between other stories.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-10, 12:19 to 13:21: **Reports the holdout juror was male**. Reports that Reddington revealed the holdout juror was male - unusual, since juror identities are typically concealed - and that he filed a motion within an hour before the mistrial, with a September 29 hearing to set next steps. New angle: Reddington revealed the holdout juror was male and filed a motion within an hour before the mistrial.