Jurors weighing Lindsay Clancy’s fate want another look at evidence that figured prominently in her murder trial.
On Friday, the panel asked to examine prescription pill bottles and a knife entered into evidence, according to defense attorney Kevin Reddington.
The request came during the second day of deliberations in the deaths of Clancy’s three children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, just 8 months old.
Lindsay Clancy jury wanted to see the pill bottles and knife in evidence, according to Clancy’s attorney. That’s why lawyers were called into sidebar and informed by judge.
— Kristina Rex (@KristinaRex) August 28, 2026
Jurors wanted the knife and bags of pill bottles as they considered whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her children. Judge William Sullivan briefly brought the lawyers to a sidebar after court resumed.
The defense has argued that postpartum psychosis and inadequate treatment left Clancy unable to control her actions. Prosecutors maintain that she planned the killings and understood what she was doing.
The request identifies evidence jurors want to examine. It does not tell us which side they believe.
Boston.com described the courtroom proceedings and the arguments that preceded deliberations:
Sullivan spoke with the attorneys at sidebar Friday morning without publicly explaining the jury’s question. The outlet cited WCVB’s observation that he handed a clerk two bags of prescription pill bottles that were trial exhibits.
The nine women and three men deciding the case had deliberated for about three and a half hours Thursday before going home. They returned Friday to continue weighing the evidence after nearly five weeks of testimony and argument about the killings and Clancy’s mental state.
In closing arguments, Reddington described a devoted mother whose mental health deteriorated after the birth of her third child. He blamed medication and medical care, arguing that she experienced psychosis and a voice ordering her to kill.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague disputed that account, arguing that Clancy made a deliberate choice and knew it was wrong. The two sides agree the children died at their mother’s hands; they sharply disagree over her responsibility under the law.
Breaking: Lindsay Clancy's deliberating jury has been randomly selected. It consists of NINE women and THREE men. (3 women, 3 men selected as alternates). The foreperson is an older woman. #WBZ
— Kristina Rex (@KristinaRex) August 27, 2026
The medication bottles sit at the center of that dispute, but they are only part of the evidence the jury must consider.
ABC News reported additional details from the prosecution’s closing argument. Her treatment history remained a focus:
Sprague accused Clancy of misleading medical providers and moving between them while seeking treatment on her own terms. She also pointed to Clancy’s experience as a labor and delivery nurse when challenging how she communicated her symptoms.
The prosecutor rejected the defense’s broader criticism of the health care system, arguing that Clancy had substantial access to care; those were arguments for the jury to evaluate, not findings the panel had already made. The defense has asked jurors to accept that a severe psychiatric illness prevented Clancy from being criminally responsible for the deaths.
The closing arguments left the jury with sharply opposing accounts of Clancy’s state of mind. Here is additional discussion of the evidence and the questions jurors face:
I spoke with our WBZ legal analyst about closing arguments, the jury makeup, and the nuanced questions the jury will have to consider in deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s trial. Link here: https://t.co/twiPUFRR4Z
— Kristina Rex (@KristinaRex) August 28, 2026
UPI outlined the possible outcomes and the judge’s instructions:
The jury can consider first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, or not guilty by reason of insanity. Clancy faces three murder counts stemming from the January 2023 deaths at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Sullivan also told jurors that Clancy’s decision not to testify could not be held against her, and that the verdict must come from the evidence and the law, rather than an assumption about why she did not take the stand. The children’s father, Patrick Clancy, discovered them at the home, and the trial brought the events of that January evening before the jury more than three years later.
Three children lost their lives. The jury now has the responsibility of deciding what verdict the evidence supports.
No verdict had been announced as of publication.
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