Nurses on the Lindsay Clancy Jury Read the Toxicology Report to the Holdout Over and Over. He Admitted He Had Reasonable Doubt, Then Refused to Sign, and the Trial Ended in a Mistrial

09 Sep 2026, 06:44 · Thought Catalog

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Updated 2 minutes ago, September 9, 2026

Eleven jurors were ready to acquit. One man told them he had reasonable doubt, watched the foreperson start signing the not-guilty verdict, then said he still wouldn’t sign it. That single refusal ended the whole trial.

The holdout juror admitted out loud that he had reasonable doubt, and the foreperson was so sure it was over that she started filling out the verdict forms and added her signature. Then he said, “But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.”

Three jurors described the deadlock to NBC10 Boston in an interview published Tuesday. The panel had reached a unanimous not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict on everyone but him.

“He was very arrogant,” one said. “He really did not take anything that anybody said.” When he pushed on the medications, the nurses on the jury walked him through the toxicology report from South Shore Hospital, and “he just completely disregarded the information that they gave.”

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s medication list, displayed beside his lectern during the Lindsay Clancy trial at Plymouth Superior Court on August 10, 2026. Photo by USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect.

They read him the definition of reasonable doubt over and over. At one point he asked to have the judge come in and read it again; they told him no, they had it in front of them, and highlighted it for him instead.

Another juror stopped short of calling him rogue. During the long hours, she said, the rest of them would get up and pace the room together and gather at the cart with the exhibits. He got up to it once, briefly, then went back to his seat and would not interact.

Lindsay Clancy sits in Plymouth Superior Court on August 3, 2026, as psychiatrist Dr. Sejal Shah takes the stand to testify about her mental state. Photo by Greg Derr / Reuters.

Lindsay Clancy admitted to killing her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in 2023. Her lawyer argued the former labor-and-delivery nurse was in postpartum psychosis and not criminally responsible. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the panel reported it was deadlocked.

During her triple murder trial’s third day of deliberations, Lindsay Clancy looks toward the jury box as Judge William Sullivan polls jurors at Plymouth Superior Court on August 31, 2026. Photo by Greg Derr / The Patriot Ledger / Pool via REUTERS.

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