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Lindsay Clancy attends a status hearing on Sept. 29, 2026. Lindsay Greg Derr/POOL/AFP via Getty Images A judge rejected a request from Lindsay Clancy‘s lawyers to find the mother not guilty of killing her three children after her high-profile case ended in a mistrial after a jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, failed to reach a consensus verdict.
According to The New York Times, Judge William Sullivan wrote that a rational juror could reasonably have found Clancy, 36, guilty of triple murder based on the evidence presented in court. Sullivan denied the lawyer’s new arguments that prosecutors failed to present enough evidence during the trial that Clancy murdered her three children — Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months — in January 2023.
A lawyer for Clancy did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
During a hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 29, Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington argued his client should be declared not guilty and claimed that the case against the mother was “based on speculation.” He added, “Where is the evidence that she did this?”
Reddington pointed to potentially dubious blood splatter evidence while attempting to cast doubt on the claim that, after Clancy allegedly killed her kids, she cut herself and jumped out a window in an ostensible suicide attempt that left her paralyzed. Clancy’s lawyer also pushed back against the claim that she ever directly admitted to killing her children.
In her rebuttal, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham defended the alleged DNA evidence found on the exercise bands purportedly used to strangle her children and argued there was plenty to back up the claim that Clancy was the only person at the house with the three kids during the time of the alleged murder.
