Will Lindsay Clancy Face a Retrial? Top Prosecutor Says ‘No Decisions’ Yet After Mistrial as He Is Heckled Outside Court

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said outside the courthouse that prosecutors have not yet decided whether to retry Lindsay Clancy on murder charges over the 2023 strangulation deaths of her daughter and two sons. “No decisions will be made today,” Cruz told reporters about the biggest question on everyone’s minds.

The decision will be made during upcoming court proceedings, the district attorney said. Cruz said that the case had been an emotional one for everyone involved, including the Duxbury community and members of the media. “This was an emotional trial for everybody — the Duxbury community, members of media,” Cruz admitted without giving details of where the case heads.

Defense Still Undecided

“I bring it all back to the child victims in this case… this was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies,” he said, adding, “We are here at this courthouse today because those children are not.”

While Cruz was talking to reporters outside the courthouse after the Clancy case ended in a mistrial, he was heckled. As he addressed the media, a woman standing behind him interrupted, saying: “You only cared when the kids were dead – why didn’t you care about the mother?”

Cruz kept a straight face as others around him backed up what the woman shouted, chanting: ‘Amen’.

As journalists continued to pose questions to Cruz, the woman continued to heckle him, causing him to ask a reporter to repeat their question.

She was also seen shaking her head as he spoke and kept on shouting over him before walking away. Others shouted that he was corrupt. Another woman standing behind Cruz was seen shaking her head every time he spoke.

When questioned over whether his prosecutor’s case was insensitive, he responded that killing three children was insensitive.

“Insensitive is ignoring those facts, we have an obligation to stand up for those people and seek justice,” he added.

Retrial Mystery Deepens

Cruz continued to maintain that Clancy’s killing of her children amounted to cold-blooded murder, but he declined to say whether prosecutors would seek a retrial, stressing that no decision had been made.

Prosecutors could also ask to have the case decided by a judge rather than going before another jury.

The 12-member jury, made up of nine women and three men, spent more than 37 hours deliberating after five weeks of testimony and evidence.

During the week, jurors sent four notes to the judge saying they had been unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

It emerged Thursday that 11 jurors had reportedly reached the same conclusion, while the 12th juror remained unwilling to join them.

The final note sent by the jury Friday morning read: “It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.”

Clancy, who killed her three young children in January 2023, could now face the prospect of another lengthy and emotionally grueling trial.

Clancy is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 29, when a date for her new trial is expected to be set.