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Photograph: Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger/AP       (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/massachusetts) Massachusetts     Lindsay Clancy jury sent home again without verdict in murder trial   Deadlocked jurors to return on Friday to see if they can reach a decision after dramatic day of deliberations (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/lindsay-clancy-trial-conspiracy-theories-postpartum-psychosis) Analysis: how ‘forensic fandom’ threatens postpartum psychosis awareness            Associated Press   Thu 3 Sep 2026 16.48 EDT  Last modified on Thu 3 Sep 2026 18.02 EDT   (mailto:?subject=Lindsay Clancy jury sent home again without verdict in murder trial&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-jury?CMP=share_btn_url) Share          (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) Prefer the Guardian on Google          The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday in a dramatic sixth day of deliberations. Her defense lawyer told the judge that the panel’s foreperson said in a note that a single juror would not follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt and was holding up a verdict.  The jury will return on Friday to see if they can reach a decision on whether the (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/massachusetts) Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/lindsay-clancy-trial-psychologist-testimony)  Lindsay Clancy trial: psychologist says he doubts claim she was hallucinating     Read more        Before sending the jury home on Thursday, the judge refused the defense’s request to remove one of the jurors following heated discussions among the parties. Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, does not deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023 before trying to take her own life. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, aged five, three and eight months. Clancy’s live-streamed trial has generated intense interest , with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom. The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.         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