Seventh day of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy trial

Welcome back. The verdict watch for the Lindsay Clancy murder trial continues today in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The jury is deadlocked, but we'll be back for seventh day of deliberations. And Kaylee Skyler is there with the very latest. What's going on now? Hi there, Jen and Sandra. So the judge heard arguments this morning morning about the fourth note that the juror sent to the judge yesterday afternoon. It indicated that there was a lone juror that was not able to follow instructions about reasonable doubt. The judge ultimately decided not to dismiss this juror. And this morning he read additional instructions before sending them back to deliberations. Here's the arguments in court. We have a person who under their oath stood in front of you yesterday when you did the individual of Y idea. And according to this information under oath looked you in the eye and lied. The note indicates that the parties disagree on what is reasonable doubt or what doubt is and how it should be applied. And we're in no position to judge if the 11 are right or the one is right. So we do not know which way the jury is split, but Reddington has been suggesting it's in the defense's favor after the jury sent that note yesterday afternoon and animated intense sidebar followed. And for the first time, Reddington brought Clancy over to listen in. The judge then spoke to each juror one by one before rereading instructions to them on reasonable doubt. Now the prosecution has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lindsay Clancy knew what she was doing was wrong when she killed her Children and attempted suicide in 2023. The defense argues Clancy was over medicated, suffering from postpartum psychosis and didn't have control of her actions. So we're now on day seven of deliberations and this jury of nine women and three men have now been deliberating for around 37 hours. And it's important to remember that the judge has issued that to a Rodriguez charge, which was the final instructions for the jurors to try and reach a verdict. So if at some point today they come back and still say they're deadlocked, the judge could declare a mistrial. Jen and Sandra. And then in that case, it would likely go back to trial separately and then you would have to find a whole different pool of jurors, which by now, I mean, this this story has gained such now international attention, national attention that you're gonna you're gonna have a hard time finding a jury pool that really doesn't know much about this case. Absolutely. And it just makes you draw parallels to the Karen Reed case that was also here in Massachusetts that blew up all over social media as well. In her first trial, it was a hung jury. And then the second time around, a lot of people had heard about that case. Ultimately, she was acquitted of the most serious charges that first time. But this could play out a couple different ways because if this case were to be retried, any decisions about it would be up to the district attorney, District Attorney Tim Cruz. So he would have to decide if he wants to retry this case. If he wants to maybe try to work out a plea deal, we'll have to see what happens. And just to be clear, Kayleigh, the sticking point here is that one soldier is a holdout. And the issue is that this juror doesn't understand what a reasonable doubt is. Is that is that what's going on? Yeah. So that note that was sent yesterday, it was never read out loud in court. But we got comments from Kevin Reddington saying that the four person for the jury basically called out this single person. And then after some sidebars again, they were very tense. The judge ultimately decided to read instructions about reasonable doubt. And so that was yesterday afternoon. And then this morning he heard those additional arguments just about what to do with this juror because it is towing a very fine line here. It's very rare for a jury for a juror to be able thrown out of a trial. So it's been a very interesting morning and I think we're all on our toes out here. Okay, so they go back to the deliberating room and we'll have to see if they come to some sort of decision today or if it carries into yet another week of this.