After the Mistrial

What happens between the mistrial and the September 29 status hearing: filings, the district attorney's retrial decision, and anything else reported before the case resumes or is resolved.

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Status hearing set for November 2, 2026.

2026-10-01 5:30 p.m.AN OUTSIDE DEFENSE LAWYER CALLS THE REQUIRED-FINDING RULING ROUTINE. WBUR, reporting Sullivan's denial of the motion, quotes the order that the physical and circumstantial evidence "would permit a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt the elements of the charge of murder," and says he left the competing expert opinions on psychosis for a jury to weigh. Keith Halpern, a criminal defense attorney with no part in the case, told WBUR that renewing the motion was what any lawyer in Reddington's place would have done, that judges seldom grant it, and that the ruling "really has no bearing on anything going forward." WBUR adds that prosecutors are still weighing whether to retry Clancy and on what charge, and that the defense motion to dismiss remains before the judge. WBUR, under Deborah Becker, 5:30 p.m.
2026-10-01 4:01 p.m.SULLIVAN DENIES THE MOTION FOR A REQUIRED FINDING OF NOT GUILTY. In a written decision Thursday, which ABC News describes as a five-page order, Sullivan ruled that the trial evidence was enough for a rational jury to find, beyond a reasonable doubt, both that Clancy committed the killings and that she was criminally responsible; he had taken the motion under advisement at the September 29 hearing. On identity, Boston 25 News reports, the decision points to evidence that she was alone with Cora, Dawson and Callan while Patrick Clancy was out for takeout and medication, a trip surveillance video bore out, and to what he found on his return and the medical examiners' findings of asphyxia. On responsibility, the judge wrote that experts on both sides found serious mental illness but that illness does not by itself rule out criminal responsibility; three Commonwealth experts testified she retained both capacities under the test, and weighing that against the defense experts was, he said, a matter for a jury. Boston 25 News reports the order clears the way toward a retrial; the double jeopardy motion and the other pending motions were not part of it. NBC Boston likewise reports that the motion to dismiss is still awaiting a ruling. Boston 25 News, under Frank O'Laughlin, 4:05 p.m.; New York Post, under Priscilla DeGregory, 4:01 p.m.; ABC News, 4:07 p.m.; NBC Boston, under Asher Klein, 4:08 p.m. The Patriot Ledger, which says it read the ruling in the court record, lists the identity evidence the judge relied on as medical examiner testimony, computer and phone records and crime scene photographs, and quotes him that mental illness "alone does not preclude a finding of criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt." It also notes the defense motion to dismiss and its request for records about the holdout juror, and the Commonwealth's request for a gag order on counsel, among the other motions filed, and reports Clancy is due back in court on November 2. The Patriot Ledger, under Maria DeVito, 4:32 p.m. CBS Boston adds that the defense had tied its identity argument to what it called an inadequate police investigation, and that the order answered it with GPS data and surveillance video placing Patrick Clancy away from the house, leaving her the only one home; the responsibility question, in CBS Boston's account of the order, was for a jury weighing the competing experts, and the judge wrote that the evidence was "sufficient to have satisfied any rational trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt" on criminal responsibility. CBS Boston, under Kristina Rex, 4:15 p.m. Fox News quotes the order as resting the Commonwealth's responsibility case on "the nature and methods of the killings and the defendant's actions and demeanor at times surrounding the killings," and says the November 2 hearing is for the double jeopardy motion and the holdout-juror inquiry. Fox News, under Michael Ruiz and Maria Paronich, 4:07 p.m.
2026-10-01 6:00 a.m.Reddington rejected the suggestion that his argument at the September 29 hearing, that the Commonwealth never proved Clancy killed the children, was a new strategy. In an interview with Billy Bush on Bush's "Hot Mics" podcast, which Fox News says came right after the hearing, he said he had "been arguing that from the very beginning": in his closing to the jury and in his motions. He described the investigation of the case as "horrific" and "atrocious." Fox News, under Michael Ruiz, 6:00 a.m. Thursday. The New York Post's account of the same interview adds his reasoning: the Commonwealth carries its burden whatever the defense, he said, so if it cannot prove its case the accused is owed a not guilty verdict, and the state of the investigation obliged him to raise the point on the motion for a required finding. New York Post, under Priscilla DeGregory, 1:04 p.m. Thursday.
2026-09-30 1:55 p.m.Reddington, in an interview with People published Wednesday, said Clancy remains under round-the-clock suicide watch at Tewksbury Hospital and described her as deeply and constantly sad, though, in his account, resilient and accepting of her situation. He said her parents, retired and living in Connecticut, visit almost daily, and that she knows of the public support for her and draws strength from it. He again blamed the killings on her psychiatric treatment and medications, and repeated that the investigation was "atrocious" and the Commonwealth had not proved its case. People, under Christine Pelisek, 1:55 p.m. Wednesday.
2026-09-29 2:35 p.m.Andrew Meyer, one of Clancy's civil lawyers, told reporters outside the courthouse that women in postpartum crisis are a public danger when hospitals answer with medication and little else. He said Clancy's care had been largely remote, that her doctors did not talk to one another, and that she had pleaded for help for months without being taken seriously, and said the failures he described would be addressed. Fox News, 2:35 p.m.
2026-09-29 2:31 p.m.Desronvil, the holdout juror, spoke on camera for the first time, in a recorded statement given to Fox News's "Hannity." He asked that attention move off him and back to the children, naming Cora, Dawson and Callan as "the three angels that aren't here," and he thanked his supporters and his Catholic faith. Boston 25 News, 2:31 p.m.
2026-09-29 12:41 p.m.Reddington declined to say whether there have been plea talks, telling reporters any such discussion would be private between him and Cruz and that it is "up to Tim." Asked whether he now disputes that Clancy killed the children, he said the argument was not new and that the Commonwealth cannot prove probable cause. CNN reports that he called the juror's lawyer, Edward Paltzik, "not a serious person." The New York Post quotes the same remark at greater length but presents it as aimed at the holdout juror himself, saying Reddington was careful not to name him; in the Post's quotation Reddington describes the person as fanning the flames, going on Hannity and "looking at $400,000, apparently" from a fundraiser. The two accounts disagree about whom the remark was about. WBUR reports that he also rejected the need for any gag order, denied that the attention on the holdout juror was his doing, and said he was weary of reading that he was going after the juror. CNN, 12:22, 12:41 and 12:44 p.m.; CBS Boston, 2:19 p.m.; WBUR; New York Post, 1:30 p.m.
2026-09-29 11:58 a.m.O'Connor, speaking to reporters, said she is the holdout juror's local counsel and will oppose the motion for his phone records. She said he fears for his safety, wants justice for the children and his privacy, believes he answered his questionnaire truthfully, and disputes the foreperson's account that he had reasonable doubt; neither side moved to excuse him for cause in jury selection. The Boston Globe quotes her saying the case was "extremely divisive" and that he is now "the only one being targeted" for casting the minority vote. CNN, 11:58 a.m.; Fox News, 1:23 p.m.; Boston Globe
2026-09-29 11:45 a.m.Outside court, District Attorney Timothy Cruz said his office has made no decision on a retrial or on what charge, and is conducting a thorough review while it waits for transcripts and for the motions to play out. WBZ-TV reports he said the office is proceeding as though a second trial were imminent. The Boston Globe, quoting him that "No determination has been made as to anything," says the open question is whether to retry her for first-degree murder before a new jury; on a reduced charge of second-degree murder, it notes, she could choose a bench trial. He took a few questions walking past the press area rather than holding a press conference; Fox News reports he denied a heckler's shout that he hates women. CBS Boston, 11:45 a.m.; CNN, 11:49 a.m.; Fox News, 1:23 and 2:14 p.m.; Boston Globe
2026-09-29 11:04 a.m.No retrial date was set. Sullivan wanted a tentative date, but Sprague argued against one until the motions are decided and Reddington agreed, saying he could not try the case again before June; boston.com gives the year as 2027. Sullivan told both sides to come ready to discuss a trial date on November 2, saying, in the Globe's account, that he did not want the case "kicked down the road," and cautioned that setting one would say nothing about how he will rule on the motions. The New York Post reports the room laughing when Reddington, asked whether he agreed the motions should be argued first, answered "Believe it or not I do," and again when he replied to the "kicked down the road" remark that he was "not kicking anything." The hearing ended just after 11 a.m., after about an hour. CBS Boston, 11:09 a.m.; CNN, 11:04 and 11:20 a.m.; Fox News, 11:34 a.m.; boston.com, 4:54 p.m.; Boston Globe; ABC News; New York Post, 11:40 a.m.
2026-09-29 11:03 a.m.Jonathan Albano, for the Boston Globe, argued its motion to open substantive sidebar discussions at future proceedings, saying it did not seek to ban sidebars altogether; Sprague objected, citing the privacy of deliberations. Reddington used the moment to say he was tired of being accused of persecuting the juror, and that his public remarks had answered politicians calling for Clancy's execution. Sullivan took the Globe's motion under advisement. CNN, 11:03, 11:09 and 11:10 a.m.; Fox News, 11:34 a.m.
2026-09-29 10:53 a.m.Weinberg argued that the jury notes and sealed sidebar transcripts around the deadlock should not be impounded, and that the defense should see the juror questionnaires. He said two notes were central to the mistrial, one of them still sealed because it was discussed at sidebar, and offered redaction of names and identifying details. The Commonwealth opposed, saying release would have a chilling effect on future jurors; CNN and Fox News attribute that argument to Sprague, CBS Boston to Buckingham. Sullivan took it under advisement. CNN, 10:53 and 10:58 a.m.; CBS Boston, 10:54 a.m.; Fox News, 11:34 a.m.
2026-09-29 10:49 a.m.Sullivan took the motion for a required finding of not guilty under advisement, without ruling. CNN, 10:49 a.m.; CBS Boston, 10:43 a.m.
2026-09-29 10:48 a.m.Buckingham answered that the defense was contesting whether Clancy did the killings for the first time, called the claim "laughable," reminded the court that at trial Reddington had objected to evidence of the killings on the ground that his client admitted them, and pointed to DNA on the exercise bands, surveillance video and witness testimony. On responsibility, she accepted that Clancy had shown signs of mental illness before January 24 but said illness does not by itself mean a lack of criminal responsibility, and argued the evidence showed a rational motive: that Clancy meant to kill herself and take the children with her. Altruistic filicide, she said, is a motive, not proof of psychosis. CNN, 10:48 and 10:51 a.m.; CBS Boston, 10:35 and 10:43 a.m.; Fox News, 11:02 a.m.; New York Post
2026-09-29 10:45 a.m.On criminal responsibility, Reddington argued the Commonwealth had not disproved psychosis beyond a reasonable doubt: every doctor who addressed it, those called by the prosecution included, found a mental disease or defect, and he said none of the rebuttal doctors was qualified to give the jury an opinion on her mental state. He accused prosecutors of abandoning their opening claim that she killed the children because she was tired of motherhood. CNN, 10:45 a.m.; Fox News, 10:36 a.m.
2026-09-29 10:20 a.m.REDDINGTON ARGUES THE COMMONWEALTH NEVER PROVED SHE DID IT. Arguing for a required finding of not guilty, Reddington told Sullivan there was no evidence under the Latimore standard that Clancy killed her children. He called the police work no investigation at all, said she never admitted the killings, and said she woke from her coma with no memory and was told what had happened. He argued that raising lack of criminal responsibility forces a defendant in effect to concede the act, and that the trial should have been bifurcated; the New York Post reports him tying that to Sullivan's refusal to split the trial, which he said left the defense in a "conundrum." The Post also has him calling the DNA and fingerprint evidence "woefully deficient" and the Commonwealth's timeline "ridiculous." The AP quotes him telling the judge the whole case rested on "speculation," and notes he offered no other account of who might be responsible. Boston 25 News reports him closing by asking that she be found not guilty, arguing the Commonwealth had shown neither probable cause nor that she was free of psychosis at the time. CBS Boston, 10:20 and 10:35 a.m.; AP via NPR, 2:00 p.m.; CNN, 10:26 a.m. and 2:16 p.m.; New York Post; Boston 25 News
2026-09-29 10:09 a.m.Sullivan will not rule on the gag-order motion Tuesday. He said he had not seen it until the early morning, and that it raises significant questions under the Constitution and Massachusetts law; it will be argued November 2. CBS Boston, 10:09 a.m.; CNN, 10:21 a.m.
2026-09-29 10:07 a.m.The double jeopardy motion to dismiss was also moved to November 2, after Sprague told the court the Commonwealth needed more time to answer it; prosecutors will file their opposition before then. Weinberg pointed out that they had had eight days, but accepted the issue's weight, and said a ruling in the defense's favor would likely settle much of what else is pending. The AP, in a report carried by KFOX-TV, likewise has the argument postponed to November 2. WBUR's account differs: it says Sullivan took the double jeopardy motion under advisement, as he did the motion for a required finding. CBS Boston, 10:07 a.m.; CNN, 10:13 a.m.; KFOX-TV, 11:44 a.m.; WBUR
2026-09-29 10:04 a.m.Sullivan put off the defense motion to inquire into the holdout juror, which seeks his phone records from the deliberation room and his juror questionnaire, to a hearing on November 2. He said he had been ready to proceed but saw an assented motion to continue; the Boston Globe reports the delay was granted at the request of the juror's lawyer, so she would have time to go through the filings. Heather O'Connor appeared for the juror, identified in court as Juror Doe. CBS Boston, 10:04 a.m.; CNN, 10:05 a.m.; Fox News, 10:07 a.m.; Boston Globe
2026-09-29 9:55 a.m.The status hearing opened in Plymouth Superior Court at 9:55 a.m., its first session since the mistrial. Clancy was in court with Reddington and Martin Weinberg, who joined the defense to argue the double jeopardy motion; her civil lawyers Rosemary Scapicchio and Andrew Meyer and her parents were also present, as were both trial prosecutors. WBZ-TV's reporter in the room said the press turnout matched or exceeded the week of deliberations. The Associated Press reports that about a dozen of Clancy's supporters, most of them in pink, waited outside for her to arrive; WBUR's account differs on the size, putting the early line of people outside, many in pink, at dozens. Video from outside, described in a KFOX-TV report written with the AP, shows Reddington pressing through a tight crowd of reporters and cameras on his way in. CBS Boston, 9:40 a.m.; CNN, 9:57 a.m.; AP via NPR, 2:00 p.m.; WBUR; KFOX-TV, 11:44 a.m.
2026-09-29 8:33 a.m.Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham have asked Sullivan to bar the lawyers from statements to the media likely to prejudice the case. The motion cites Reddington's press conferences and televised interviews through the trial and after it, and says that by calling the holdout juror "he" he made it easy to tell the juror was one of the three men on the panel. The New York Post, quoting the filing, reports that it describes the trial and its aftermath as a "carnival atmosphere" the court should limit, calls Reddington's remarks about the jury the "most disturbing" of them, and cites his claim that the holdout "robbed the defendant of an acquittal"; it asks for limits so that prospective jurors at a second trial do not form views of the case in advance. CBS Boston reports that WBZ-TV and Boston Globe Media Partners have filed in opposition. CNN described the motion as filed Tuesday morning; CBS Boston says it was filed Monday, and in court Sullivan said it came in "late yesterday." Fox News, 8:33 a.m.; CBS Boston, 8:11 and 10:09 a.m.; CNN, 8:46 and 10:21 a.m.; New York Post, updated 2:39 p.m.
2026-09-29 8:25 a.m.The Commonwealth has filed its opposition to the defense's renewed motion for a required finding of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Prosecutors argue the trial evidence was enough for a rational jury to find both the elements of murder and criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the judge should weigh only that evidence, not anything said about the jury's deliberations or what would become of Clancy after such a finding. Fox News, 8:25 a.m.; CBS Boston, 8:45 a.m.; CNN, 8:46 a.m.
2026-09-29Before turning to the evidence in his argument for a required finding, Reddington complained to the court that Clancy had been demonized by politicians "from Donald Trump all the way down." Reported by NBC News, which gives no time for the remark.
2026-09-29 EveningThe holdout juror's lawyers put the bar complaint on the record. Appearing with Paltzik on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Tuesday night, Tyler Cox, another of Desronvil's attorneys, said they will file one against Reddington. He dismissed Reddington's point in court that he had done no more than file a motion, saying the motion was unprecedented in itself and that a lawyer does not single jurors out that way. Fox News also reports Reddington has taken to calling the holdout "the obstructionist." Fox News, under Michael Ruiz, 11:27 a.m. Wednesday; the New York Post carries the same account of the Hannity appearance, 1:28 p.m. Wednesday.
2026-09-28 5:50 p.m.NBC 10 reported on Monday evening that Clancy is due back in Plymouth Superior Court at 9 a.m. on Tuesday; it is the only account read for this index that gives the hour. The station listed the defense motions awaiting Sullivan, among them the request for the holdout juror's phone records and questionnaire, and said the Commonwealth has still not announced whether it will retry her. Its legal analyst, Austin Dana, said the renewed motion asks the judge to hold that no jury could find her guilty on the evidence, and put its chances of success as "very low." NBC 10, under Nicole Moeder, 5:50 p.m.
2026-09-28 4:23 p.m.The defense and the Commonwealth agreed the day before the hearing to push back the motion to inquire into the holdout juror. Paltzik announced it first, telling Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany that both sides had consented to put off the motion and that it was likely not going ahead on Tuesday. Reddington answered that Paltzik's framing was "pure nonsense": he said local counsel for Juror Doe had asked both sides for time to review the motion and reply, that he and the prosecutors had agreed to continue it as a professional courtesy, and that the motion remained pending. Fox reported that the juror's local counsel had told the parties that the impounded material needed for a response was out of reach. The same day Paltzik wrote on X that Reddington still had peremptory challenges left when his client came up in jury selection and could have struck him. Fox News, 4:23 p.m., updated 6:25 p.m.
2026-09-28 10:25 a.m.The holdout juror will stay away from Tuesday's hearing. Fox News announced on X on Monday morning that Desronvil would not be in court, news it credited to host Kayleigh McEnany, who it said had spoken with him directly and interviewed his lawyer. In the clip, as PJ Media transcribed it that afternoon, Paltzik gives safety as the reason, says his client is not the defendant and will instead be represented by local counsel he has retained, and says he will not attend either. He also accused Reddington of turning the case into "a circus." Fox's own post carries only the first words of the quote, and no other outlet read for this index has yet reported the juror's absence. Fox News on X, 10:25 a.m.; PJ Media, 3:10 p.m.
2026-09-28 6:00 a.m.CT Insider reported on Monday morning that District Attorney Timothy Cruz has said he will make his retrial decision known at a coming court date, without naming which one, and that it could come as soon as Tuesday's hearing. The outlet did not say when or where Cruz said this, and no other account read for this index carries it; the only word from Cruz recorded here is his remark on September 4 that he would decide "shortly." The same preview reported Reddington's position that his client is not asking to go free: if found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, she understands state law would place her in a mental health facility. CT Insider, via Yahoo News, 6:00 a.m.
2026-09-28 3:55 a.m.Newsweek, drawing on the same Fox News interview, carried more of what Paltzik said about Reddington. He said the defense lawyer had "lost his mind" from the moment he learned the holdout juror would not come over, called him "off the rails," and said Reddington was no longer "behaving rationally." He said he would "100 percent" file a complaint against Reddington -- the first time this index has the plan from Paltzik on the record rather than from TMZ's unnamed sources. On the pending motions he said they lacked even "one percent" of merit and should be denied because "11-1 is not 12-0." He repeated that every allegation against his client is false. These remarks were made to the press, not in court, and Reddington's own remarks about Paltzik are recorded under September 27. Newsweek, under Alice Gibbs, 3:55 a.m., updated 12:01 p.m.
2026-09-28Desronvil sent a statement to Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday asking that attention move off him and back onto the three children. He named Cora, Dawson and Callan as the ones who cannot speak or fight for themselves, and said he knew the whole focus had been on him. Reported by NBC News on Tuesday.
2026-09-27 9:19 p.m.Paltzik has answered the foreperson's claim that the holdout juror refused to apply the law on reasonable doubt. In an interview with Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, previewed by Fox on Sunday night ahead of its airing on Monday's "Fox & Friends," he said Desronvil had "zero doubt" and that "a mountain of evidence" supported his position. Fox said Reddington did not reply to its requests for a response. The New York Post republished the Fox account on Monday morning. Fox News, 9:19 p.m.; New York Post, 6:31 a.m. Monday.
2026-09-27 6:30 a.m.CNN set out on Sunday what Tuesday's status conference is expected to take up: the defense motions aimed at avoiding a second trial, the request to look further into the holdout juror, and, should the Commonwealth decide to retry Clancy, a schedule, with CNN noting that Sullivan could set a new trial date. It said the hearing may also give some indication of whether plea talks are under way, citing Reddington's earlier statements that he is open to a resolution but would not accept any deal under which his client serves time behind bars, and legal observers who doubt the two sides can reach one. The district attorney's office has still not said whether it will retry the case. CNN, 6:30 a.m.
2026-09-27 6:00 a.m.Reddington has hit back at Paltzik. In an interview with Fox News Digital, carried by Yahoo News on Sunday morning, Clancy's lawyer said the holdout juror's counsel should learn to argue his case in a courtroom instead of "mouthing off for the media," called him "histrionic" and a "foul individual," and told him to "just shut up." He defended every post-trial motion as grounded in the law, the facts and the jury's own questions, and said he was only doing his job for his client. He also objected to Desronvil being called the "lone holdout juror." Fox quoted Paltzik's reply: that Reddington was doing his job until the case went "off the rails," that he should "stop whining and go prepare for a retrial," and that he himself was looking for local counsel, with filings to follow. Both lawyers were speaking to the press, not in court. Fox News, under Michael Ruiz, via Yahoo News, 6:00 a.m.
2026-09-26 8:21 a.m.The New York Post has published posts from a Reddit account it says belonged to Patrick Clancy and has since been deleted, several of them seeking advice in December 2022 about his then-wife's condition. The Post links the account to him through an email address it says was also read out in court by Timothy Chiappini, the State Police phone examiner who testified for the Commonwealth. As the Post quotes them, some posts were written in Lindsay Clancy's voice and flagged as posted on her behalf. One dated December 7 said she had slept badly since about a week after starting Zoloft, once going 48 hours without sleep and getting three or four hours a night since without feeling tired; that she had lost 15 pounds in two months; that taking Zoloft had been her own idea; and that her psychiatrist now saw signs of bipolar disorder. A December 6 post said her anxiety beforehand had been mild, and that she had got past similar anxiety after the first two births with therapy. On December 9 the account asked others whether their medication had ever brought thoughts of harming people, loved ones included, and whether they had come close to acting on them. According to the Post, the posts also describe later prescriptions of Ativan, other benzodiazepines, sleep medication and Prozac, and return repeatedly to regret that she was medicated at all. Patrick Clancy's lawyer did not respond to the Post. The account of these posts rests on the Post's report alone. New York Post, 8:21 a.m.
2026-09-25 8:30 a.m.Paltzik says his client is going back to work. In remarks to TMZ, published overnight and picked up by the New York Post on Friday morning, the lawyer said Desronvil has kept out of sight since the mistrial, spending his time at church, reading and with his girlfriend, and expects to return to his job with a property maintenance company in about a week; he said the employer has stood by him. Paltzik said the juror means to tell his story at some point but has no plans to speak publicly for now, and is grateful to those who have supported him and given money. He also said he has been in contact with the Massachusetts State Police and the district attorney about Desronvil's safety. The Post attributes the planned bar complaint against Reddington to Paltzik, where TMZ's own reports put it to unnamed sources; the Post says Reddington declined to answer Paltzik's attacks on him. TMZ, overnight; New York Post, 8:30 a.m.
2026-09-24 7:00 p.m.The holdout juror intends to take Reddington to the bar, according to TMZ. Citing unnamed sources close to the matter, TMZ reported on Thursday evening that Desronvil and his lawyers plan to file a complaint against the defense attorney and want him suspended, disciplined or disbarred. As those sources describe it, Desronvil believes Reddington singled him out and effectively exposed his identity in the days after the mistrial, and regards that as especially serious coming from an officer of the court; the people around him read Reddington's post-verdict remarks, and his request that the court look into the juror, as an attempt to humiliate him for disagreeing. No complaint has been reported as filed. The account comes from sources, not from Desronvil or a named lawyer, and TMZ said Reddington's side had no comment. TMZ, 7:00 p.m.
2026-09-24 10:55 a.m.Edward Paltzik, the lawyer for the holdout juror, has cast his client's vote as a moral stand against the defendant herself. The New York Post reported on Thursday morning that Paltzik, speaking in a Fugitive TV interview on Wednesday, called Clancy "a demon" and "demonic," and said that, as a moral matter, she "should be executed," while acknowledging that Massachusetts has no death penalty and that it was never an option in this case. He objected to her remaining in a mental hospital, described the killings as premeditated and slow, and said Desronvil "was standing up to evil." The remarks are counsel's own, made in a media interview outside the courtroom; the Post does not report any comment from Desronvil himself. The Post notes that Clancy has been held at Tewksbury Hospital, a state mental health facility, since the killings. New York Post, 10:55 a.m.
2026-09-23 9:32 p.m.The holdout juror's camp has answered the phone-records request by pointing at the rest of the panel. The New York Post reported on Wednesday night that Ray Marcel, the YouTube host it describes as Desronvil's spokesperson, told NewsNation's Brian Entin that Desronvil says the jurors kept their phones with them throughout the seven days of deliberations and that several of them used the devices, some allegedly posting to social media while the jury was out. "He said everybody had their phone on them," Marcel said, as the Post quotes him; he did not name anyone. In a post on X the same day, Marcel wrote that the judge had told jurors to stop using electronic devices only after some had allegedly been looking up definitions on their phones, and that if Desronvil's records are to be examined, every juror's should be. The account is Marcel's, relayed from his conversations with Desronvil, not a statement from the juror himself. The Post notes that Massachusetts court rules let jurors keep their phones but bar using them during trial or deliberations, and that there is no sign Sullivan collected them in this case. It asked Reddington and Paltzik for comment. New York Post, 9:32 p.m.
2026-09-23 5:26 p.m.ABC News went through the September 22 orders in the late afternoon and draws out parts of the judge's reasoning the earlier accounts left aside. Sullivan held that the jury list and questionnaires are not a "public record" under Massachusetts law, and found "a risk of immediate and irreparable injury" if they were opened to the public now; the sealing runs "until and unless otherwise instructed by the court." The order keeps the records from the public, ABC says, though counsel on both sides may still be able to see them, and on its reading the order does not by itself touch the defense's request to look into the holdout juror. Sullivan also wrote that the case has drawn "significant and divisive attention" at home, across the country and abroad, and noted that most jurors have chosen to stay anonymous although some have spoken publicly. ABC News, under Peter Charalambous, 5:26 p.m.
2026-09-23 1:43 p.m.The Boston Globe confirmed the new sealing orders in the early afternoon, dating them to Tuesday and describing both the venire list and the prospective jurors' questionnaires as sealed indefinitely, in step with the order Sullivan made the week before on the names of the deliberating jurors. The Globe adds the reason the judge gave on the face of the venire order: "At least one juror has requested that the order be extended indefinitely," Sullivan wrote. Like his earlier orders, these leave any juror free to identify themselves and talk publicly about serving. The Globe also notes that prosecutors have still not said whether they will retry Clancy, and that the next hearing remains set for September 29. Boston Globe, 1:43 p.m.
2026-09-23 12:30 p.m.NBC Boston's account of the September 22 orders quotes their reasoning directly. Both orders rest the extension on the case continuing to draw "daily, divisive attention in Massachusetts and beyond," and on the risk that attention poses to the jurors and their service. Sullivan also wrote that while a juror may speak publicly after a trial, the "majority of the jurors, deliberating and alternatives, have maintained their anonymity, despite multiple requests to give statements." By NBC Boston's own count, close to half of the twelve who deliberated have now given interviews. NBC Boston, 12:30 p.m., updated 1:33 p.m.
2026-09-23 12:26 p.m.Sullivan has kept the juror questionnaires and the venire list sealed past the ten days his first orders allowed. Boston 25 reported on Wednesday that, in separate orders dated September 22, the judge extended the impoundment of both the confidential questionnaires and the list of people summoned for selection, leaving them sealed until the court acts again. The reasons repeat those of his September 14 order on the jurors' names: the attention the case still draws in and beyond Massachusetts, including on social media, attempts to identify jurors and spread their personal details, and the arrest of a woman charged with recording jurors outside the courthouse. Weighing public access against the jurors' privacy and safety, he found a "real and present" risk of harm to them and to the integrity of their service if the records were released. As before, any juror remains free to come forward and talk about serving. Boston 25, 12:26 p.m.
2026-09-22 3:21 p.m.The Boston Globe's own story on Paltzik's statement, published mid-afternoon, adds two things about the lawyer that the morning accounts did not. It identifies him as one of six lawyers representing President Trump in his pending defamation suit against the New York Times in Florida, and it notes that he has not yet appeared with Desronvil in public, at a press conference or in any court proceeding. Like the New York Post in the morning, the Globe reports that Reddington did not immediately answer its request for comment. The statement itself, as the Globe quotes it, is the one already recorded here. Nothing in the story reports a ruling from Sullivan or a filing from the district attorney's office, which the Globe says has not said whether it will retry Clancy. Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen, 3:21 p.m.
2026-09-22 1:17 p.m.The extended cut of the "60 Minutes" interview that CBS posted Tuesday morning goes well beyond the broadcast, and the Globe and boston.com went through what it adds. In the months after the killings, Patrick Clancy said, he would wake screaming and the same dreams kept coming back; the treatment that did the most for him was EMDR, a trauma therapy in which the patient is taken deliberately back to the memory, and once he had finished the sessions those symptoms largely went away -- "like a miracle," in his words. He said he had also contacted Postpartum Support International and psychiatrists who specialize in postpartum illness to ask them what they thought had happened. He talked about each of the three children, and about how hard he finds it to come back to Duxbury, where they are buried. Dr. Rachel Danis, beside him, said the people close to her were "worried" when the two began dating, and that she had doubts of her own at first. Boston Globe, 1:17 p.m.; boston.com, under Abby Patkin, 2:17 p.m.; the New York Post also carried both passages.
2026-09-22 11:41 a.m.Boston.com's account of the double jeopardy motion, out late in the morning, notes a condition the defense attached to it that the earlier readings did not carry: Weinberg writes that the defense reserves the right to add to the motion to dismiss depending on what Sullivan does with the separate Juror Doe request for the holdout's domestic violence record and his phone use during deliberations. The rest of the piece sets out the filing as already recorded here -- no manifest necessity for the mistrial without a fuller inquiry into the holdout, and the Karen Read contrast -- and reports that Sullivan has ruled on neither motion, that both may come up at the September 29 hearing, and that the district attorney's office has not said whether it will retry Clancy, reduce or dismiss the charges, or seek a plea. Boston.com, under Abby Patkin, 11:41 a.m.
2026-09-22 11:18 a.m.ABC News published its own account of the fight over the inquiry motion late in the morning, and what is new in it is a warning about what an order of that kind would cost beyond this case. Terri Austin, a legal analyst with no part in the trial, told the network on Monday that the request puts the privacy of individual jurors in play and would make future panels harder to seat. Nobody will want to serve, she said, if serving means a lawyer can take a juror's phone and read everything they wrote, and she called that a problem. The rest of the story restates what is already on the record: Paltzik's overnight promise to fight the motion, which he calls disgusting, and the juror's own account of being cut off whenever he tried to set out a theory in the jury room. ABC News, under Peter Charalambous, 11:18 a.m.
2026-09-22 10:54 a.m.United Press International's account of the two motions, out mid-morning, carries a reading of them relayed from another paper. Jack Lu, the retired Massachusetts Superior Court judge quoted repeatedly since the mistrial, texted the New York Times on Monday that Reddington is an "able attorney" who is "obligated to leave no stone unturned," and added that undoing the mistrial would all the same be a long shot. The wire service puts the inquiry motion's filing on Friday, which is the date the clerk's office stamped it rather than the September 16 date on the document itself, and repeats the assurance in the motion that what it asks for would not reach the substance of the deliberations. United Press International, under Lisa Hornung, 10:54 a.m., as carried by Yahoo News.
2026-09-22 10:04 a.m.A further passage of Patrick Clancy's interview was broadcast on Tuesday morning, and it has him on what he thinks the law and the public should make of a case like this one. Society can find a compassionate way of meeting such a tragedy, he said in the clip as TMZ reported it, and compassion of that kind is not the same as letting it pass: "That doesn't mean no accountability." TMZ's account has him putting compassion as recognition of what mental illness costs the people who have it, and of the stigma they carry, together with the work of keeping the same thing from happening again. The clip went out on CBS Mornings, and CBS News posted an extended cut of the interview on its own site the same morning, timed 8:51 a.m. TMZ, 10:04 a.m.
2026-09-22 9:34 a.m.Three more outlets published Paltzik's statement through the morning, and the whole of it is sharper than the summaries carried overnight. It goes at Reddington by name rather than at the filing alone, giving him a mocking nickname, calling him a "sore loser" and the motion "disgusting" and worthy of "universal condemnation." It also carries the constitutional warning further than the earlier accounts did: taken to its end, Paltzik writes, the proposal would have prosecutors and defense lawyers investigating each other's holdouts in turn, until the system resembles the Hatfield-McCoy feud, "a cycle of carnage" whose origins cease to matter. Fox News reports that neither Paltzik nor Reddington answered its requests for comment on Tuesday morning. The New York Post ran the statement the same morning and says Reddington had not yet responded to its own request for comment. Boston 25 adds nothing new from the court: the next date remains September 29, and Cruz has still not said whether he will retry the case. Fox News, under Michael Ruiz, 9:34 a.m.; New York Post, under Anthony Blair, 9:28 a.m., updated 11:32 a.m.; Boston 25 News, under Bella Pelletiere, 11:01 a.m.
2026-09-22 7:37 a.m.The holdout juror's lawyer answered the inquiry motion overnight, in public rather than on paper. Edward Andrew Paltzik posted a statement on X shortly after 1 a.m., NBC Boston reports, calling Reddington's request "Looney Tunes" and casting it as an attack on the Sixth Amendment rather than on his client alone: if jurors come to face reprisals for disagreeing with a defense lawyer, he wrote, the right goes with it. He asks readers to imagine the case reversed -- eleven for conviction, one holding out for insanity -- and a district attorney moving to investigate that juror, and argues that the objection is therefore not a partisan one. He ends by saying this is not his last word on it and predicting the motion will backfire. The Associated Press carried the post in an update to its account of the two motions, repeating that Desronvil has not been accused of any wrongdoing in his jury service. WCVB, which published the statement in full, reports the docket as showing the attached filings impounded and no final ruling yet on what Reddington has asked for. Associated Press, under Michael Casey, 7:37 a.m. as carried by NBC News; WCVB, under Phil Tenser, updated 8:08 a.m.; NBC Boston, 8:52 a.m.
2026-09-22 4:07 a.m.The Globe's account of the inquiry motion, updated overnight, adds an outside reading of how far the motion is likely to get. Daniel F. Conley, a former Suffolk district attorney now practicing at Mintz in Boston, told the paper the request is "very unusual" and called it "a fishing expedition." Even if the juror was on his phone when he should have been deliberating, Conley said, and even if he left his court history off the questionnaire, neither is likely to end the case: he described the motion as "an exercise in futility" and said he does not expect it to produce anything that would let Sullivan reverse himself or lead an appellate court to bar a second trial. The story also has Reddington asking that the motion be argued at the September 29 hearing, with no ruling yet on that request. Its summary of the deliberations puts them at about 39 hours, where the paper's own account on the day of the mistrial, and the other outlets, said 38. Boston Globe, under Shelley Murphy and Travis Andersen, updated 4:07 a.m.
2026-09-21 7:39 p.m.The Boston Herald's reading of the Juror Doe motion tracks the accounts already published -- the preservation of questionnaires, the summons and badge, the phone sign-in sheets and the corridor video, the domestic violence registry record sought from the Commissioner of Probation, the call and text details for the deliberation hours, and the three subjects the juror would be examined on -- but it dates the jurors' sworn assurance to September 2, where Boston 25 and Fox News both read the filing as September 3. The paper also repeats, without giving a date for it, that Cruz has said his office will announce its decision on a retrial in a formal legal setting. Boston Herald, under Colleen Cronin, 7:39 p.m.
2026-09-21 6:30 p.m.The station that first reported the holdout juror's record gave the docket's state of play on Monday evening: Sullivan has not ruled on the request for a limited inquiry, and the memorandum and exhibits filed behind it are impounded. Reddington, asked about the motion by reporters earlier in the day, said it is aimed at the system rather than at the man -- people can vilify him all they want, he said, but he is not making statements about the juror. NBC Boston says it asked the juror's lawyer about the new filing and had no answer, and that Cruz's office did not respond either. It puts the fundraiser for the juror at close to $400,000, above the figures reported over the weekend. NBC Boston, under the NBC10 Boston Investigators, 6:30 p.m., updated Tuesday 8:52 a.m.
2026-09-21 6:07 p.m.The Associated Press moved its account of both motions in the early evening, and it carries the first word from the prosecution: a spokesperson for District Attorney Cruz would not comment on them. Michael Casey's story treats the Juror Doe motion as aimed at Michael Desronvil by name, which the filing itself avoids, and describes it as filed Friday and made public Monday. It gives the phone-record window as 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on each deliberation day, where the motion as published by Fox News reads 8:30 a.m. Its reading of the Weinberg motion is that Sullivan should have replaced the holdout with an alternate once the foreperson reported a juror refusing to apply the reasonable-doubt instruction, and it quotes the filing's line that, contrary to what the court believed at the time, it did have viable choices other than a mistrial. The AP notes that Desronvil has not been accused of any wrongdoing in his jury service, puts the fundraiser at nearly $375,000, and repeats that Clancy remains charged and held in a psychiatric hospital until the case is resolved. Associated Press, under Michael Casey, 6:07 p.m., updated 6:12 p.m., as carried by KJCT.
2026-09-21 5:53 p.m.The Boston Globe's own account of the double jeopardy motion, published in the early evening, adds where the filing leaves the case rather than what is in it. Sullivan did not act on the motion when it arrived and the prosecution has yet to respond, so it becomes the business of the hearings to come; the Globe expects it to be the central question of the case from here, because granting it would end the prosecution outright. It notes that the motion does not open up the record much: most of the jury's notes were never read aloud in court, and the copy Weinberg filed publicly redacts much of what it quotes from them. And it makes the point that winning would not mean release -- a judge would be likely to commit Clancy to a psychiatric hospital instead. On the Karen Read comparison the Globe has Weinberg calling this case the antithesis of that one, in which he made the same argument and lost before the Supreme Judicial Court. Boston Globe, under Sean Cotter, 5:53 p.m., updated 10:30 p.m.
2026-09-21 5:45 p.m.MassLive's full account of the double jeopardy motion, readable for this index only in the evening, adds what the earlier afternoon accounts did not carry: that the motion is to be argued at the September 29 hearing, and how it deals with the Karen Read precedent. Charlie McKenna sets out the filing's starting point -- a hung jury is the textbook case of manifest necessity, so the argument has to be that Sullivan had an alternative he never weighed. A deliberating juror can be discharged in Massachusetts only for a reason personal to that juror and unconnected to the issues in the case or to relations with the other jurors; Sullivan found the notes gave no basis for an inquiry under that rule, and the defense answers that a juror's refusal to follow the law is exactly such a personal reason. It also faults him for not addressing the cases that require an inquiry before a judge decides between discharge, further deliberation and a mistrial, and says it makes no difference whether questioning would in fact have led to the juror's removal. Weinberg distinguishes Read's unsuccessful double jeopardy claim, which he also brought: there the jurors' later claims of an agreement to acquit contradicted notes reporting a deadlock, so the Supreme Judicial Court saw nothing that could have averted the mistrial before it was declared; here, he writes, the jury was "calling out for help, not once but twice," and its notes showed deliberations being "hijacked" by one juror's disregard of the instructions. Two lawyers MassLive consulted see an uphill argument. Elyse Hershon, a Boston defense lawyer, said a juror problem can undo a conviction but the usual remedy is a new trial rather than dismissal; Chris Dearborn of Suffolk University Law School said the SJC discourages trial judges from intervening in deliberations, and further inquiry would have come close to that line. MassLive, under Charlie McKenna, 5:12 p.m., updated 5:45 p.m.
2026-09-21 4:54 p.m.The double jeopardy motion has been filed. Hearst Connecticut reported late in the afternoon that Clancy's lawyers had asked Sullivan on Monday to dismiss the three murder indictments on the ground that a second trial would put her twice in jeopardy, and Fox News, updating its story on the Juror Doe motion, published the filing. It is a 34-page motion to dismiss, dated September 21, stamped by the clerk the same day and numbered paper 215, signed by Martin Weinberg and Michael Pabian with Reddington. It invokes the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments and Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, and its argument is the one Reddington previewed: that there was no manifest necessity for the mistrial, because the court never questioned the juror the foreperson twice reported as refusing to apply the reasonable-doubt instruction, nor the foreperson who wrote the notes. On the motion's own account of the record, Sullivan answered the first report by asking each juror whether he or she could apply the law, answered the second by reminding the panel as a group of its obligation, and denied the defense's requests to go further: to ask the foreperson about the circumstances behind her notes, to ask the jurors about their ability to follow the reasonable-doubt instruction, and to find out whether the juror could be discharged as unable to perform his duty. It quotes the judge's statement on September 4 that under the statute and the case law he had no choice but to declare a mistrial, and calls that the heart of the motion: a court that believes the law leaves it no choice has neither followed the case law requiring a voir dire nor exercised the discretion the manifest-necessity doctrine requires. It argues that the burden of showing manifest necessity rests on the Commonwealth, that the record shows no express consideration of Clancy's interest in having her fate decided by the first jury, and that eleven jurors found the Commonwealth's proof short. The passages that quote the jury's notes are redacted in the copy Fox published. It asks for an order dismissing Counts 1 through 3. Neither Hearst nor Fox reports when the motion will be argued, and neither carries a response from the district attorney's office. Hearst, updating at 5:40 p.m., quotes the motion's conclusion that "any successive trial would constitute a violation of Ms. Clancy's double jeopardy rights." MassLive reported the filing at 5:12 p.m.; its fuller account is in the 5:45 p.m. entry. Hearst Connecticut (CT Insider), under Richard Chumney, 4:54 p.m., updated 5:40 p.m.; Fox News, under Michael Ruiz and Bryan Llenas, updated 5:03 p.m., with the motion as a document; MassLive, under Charlie McKenna, 5:12 p.m.
2026-09-21 4:37 p.m.The Globe corrected its afternoon report. The restored story, timed 4:37 p.m., says Sullivan has yet to rule on the Juror Doe motion, and carries a note that an earlier version had wrongly said he already had. What the judge has done, according to the corrected story, is agree to make the motion itself public while impounding the memorandum and exhibits filed with it, which fits ABC News's line that the court released the motion on Monday. The rest of the story matches the morning's account: the questionnaire would show whether the juror disclosed the restraining order then in force against him and the 2021 domestic assault charge that was later dismissed; prospective jurors have to answer about criminal history and court orders, and a domestic violence charge is not by itself disqualifying; the motion would send the phone to a neutral examiner designated by the court; the inquiry may reach the juror who described the holdout scrolling through videos; the Globe could not reach the juror. The paper now describes the September 29 hearing as one to discuss setting a new trial date, and repeats that Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case. Boston Globe, under Shelley Murphy and Travis Andersen, corrected 4:37 p.m.
2026-09-21 2:54 p.m.The Boston Globe, updating its morning story at 2:54 p.m., reported from a docket entry that Sullivan had allowed the limited inquiry into Juror Doe, ordered the juror's confidential questionnaire produced and the other jury records preserved, and impounded the filings attached to the motion. That report did not stand. By 4:11 p.m. the story was no longer available on the Globe's site, and when it returned at 4:37 p.m. it carried a correction: the judge has not ruled on the motion. What survives of the afternoon report is the impoundment, which the corrected story keeps; see the 4:37 p.m. entry. No other outlet reported an order at any point. Boston Globe, under Shelley Murphy and Travis Andersen, updated 2:54 p.m. and corrected 4:37 p.m.
2026-09-21 1:46 p.m.The motion itself became readable in the afternoon. Fox News published the three-page filing alongside its account, and ABC News, which had also read it, described it as filed last week and released by the court on Monday. The paper carries every date the outlets have been giving for it: it is dated September 16 above Reddington's signature, the clerk's filed stamp reads September 18, and it is numbered paper 212 on the docket. It explains its own anonymity: because Sullivan's impoundment order of September 14 is in force, the juror is called Juror Doe and described in gender-neutral terms, and the supplement and counsel's affidavit that identify him by juror number, seat, name and date of birth are filed under seal. It asks for five orders. First, that the clerk, the jury commissioner, the court officers and the Commonwealth preserve the original confidential questionnaires of the twelve deliberating jurors and six alternates and the judge's copies; Juror Doe's summons, badge and service records; every jury note and the court's written answers; the electronic recordings of July 20 to 24 and September 3 and 4, sidebars included; the court-officer logs and the phone sign-in sheets for August 27 through September 4; the jury-room corridor video for those dates; the impounded juror list; and whatever juror information the Commonwealth obtained before or during trial. Second, that the clerk produce the juror's questionnaire and any supplement to the court and counsel under the impoundment order, and that the Commissioner of Probation produce under seal his record from the statewide domestic violence registry, including the order now in force. Third, that the Commonwealth state under seal within seven days what it obtained under its February 27 motion for access to prospective juror information, what background checks it ran and with what results, and whether the district attorney's office has had any matter since January 1, 2021 in which the juror was a defendant, complainant or subject. Fourth, summonses returnable to the court for review in camera: to the phone carrier, for call and text detail records limited to sender, recipient, date and time, and data-session logs, for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on each deliberation day from August 27 through September 4; and to the juror, to deliver the phone he carried into the jury room to a court-designated neutral examiner for an extraction limited to those dates and hours, the phone to be returned within 48 hours. Fifth, that the court then examine the juror on the record with counsel present on three subjects only, the truthfulness of his questionnaire and voir dire answers, his sworn assurance of September 3, and phone use or outside information during deliberations, without touching the substance of deliberations, and that it may hear Juror No. 10 on what he saw of the phone. It asks to be heard in open court on September 29. Fox News's account adds Reddington's remark to reporters on the day of the mistrial that the other jurors had been robbed by one man. ABC has asked Cruz's office and the juror's lawyer for comment. Fox News, under Michael Ruiz and Bryan Llenas, published 1:46 p.m. and updated 5:03 p.m., with the motion as a document; ABC News, under Peter Charalambous and Tonya Simpson, 3:28 p.m.
2026-09-21 1:27 p.m.Reddington took questions from reporters on Monday about the "60 Minutes" broadcast, and said that whatever he has to say about the holdout juror will be said in court. Hearst Connecticut, relaying WCVB, has him speaking outside a courthouse where he had an appearance in another matter, and saying he had listened to the interview with half an ear while preparing for it; WHDH, which spoke to him at the courthouse in Plymouth, quotes him as having managed to watch it in the end. Both give him the same view of Patrick Clancy's account: it is what has been heard from him from the start, he has been consistent -- "because that's the truth," in WHDH's version -- and Reddington neither represents him nor had any part in his decision to go on television. He has not spoken to his client and could not say whether she had watched. Asked about the panic attack Patrick Clancy described in the broadcast, he said it had been an emotional trial for everyone. On the holdout's public statements he offered no reaction beyond "We take care of that in the courtroom." He also told reporters, per WCVB, that a motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds could be filed as soon as Monday afternoon, ahead of the September 29 hearing; it was, and it is in the 4:54 p.m. entry. WHDH's segment adds one line from him on the renewed motion for a required finding: "There was doubt. And there was reasonable doubt. But he refused to apply the law, and that's just not right." WCVB's own report could not be read for this index. NBC Boston's account of the same remarks adds two things the other two do not carry. Asked what he wants from the double jeopardy motion, Reddington said he hopes the judge ends the case rather than sends it back for trial: "I'm hoping that Judge Sullivan allows the termination of the case." And he said he has not yet spoken to Cruz about whether there will be a second one, though he expects to, on the strength of how long the two men have known each other. Hearst Connecticut (CT Insider), under Jayden Nguyen, 1:27 p.m.; WHDH, 4:12 p.m., updated 4:17 p.m.; NBC Boston, under John Moroney and Asher Klein, published Monday and updated Tuesday morning.
2026-09-21 1:26 p.m.Boston 25 read the motion in the early afternoon and its account is the fullest yet of what Reddington wants preserved and produced. Frank O'Laughlin reports the filing as made on September 18, which is Friday, the date the Globe and boston.com give. Beyond the questionnaires and the phone sign-in sheets, the preservation request reaches the jury's notes, the courtroom recordings, the court officers' logs and the courthouse surveillance video. On the juror himself, the defense wants his confidential questionnaire and related records, whatever background checks were run on him and their results, and word of any matter the Plymouth County district attorney's office has had involving him since 2021. The phone request is narrower in time than the earlier accounts suggested: call and text records, with limited data-session logs, for the deliberation days between August 27 and September 4, plus a limited forensic extraction of the phone he carried into the jury room over that period. The three questions for the juror are the ones already reported -- the truthfulness of his questionnaire and voir dire answers, his compliance with the sworn assurance of September 3, and any phone use or outside information -- and the motion says it would not go into the substance of deliberations. The other juror it asks the court to hear, on what he saw of the phone, is identified in the filing as Juror No. 10. Reddington asks that it be taken up in open court on Tuesday, September 29. Boston 25 News, under Frank O'Laughlin, 1:26 p.m.
2026-09-21 1:22 p.m.CBS Boston went back to its legal analyst, Jennifer Roman, once the "60 Minutes" interview had aired. She found Patrick Clancy much as he had been on the witness stand, in manner and in bearing, and credible, but thought the interview left viewers wanting more, above all on his former wife's mental health: he said nothing about a hallucination or a commanding voice, which she noted had been central at trial. Asked whether it could bear on the district attorney's decision to retry, she said the children's father was now publicly forgiving Clancy and appeared reluctant to go through a trial again, and questioned whether the office presses on when the victims' family does not want to. That is a shift in emphasis from her comments before the broadcast, when she did not expect the interview to change his thinking. She added that each national interview makes it harder to seat jurors who have not heard of the case, and said she was sure Reddington would not let Clancy give an interview of her own while the case is pending, because speaking now would waive her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. The views are the analyst's, not a report of any decision. CBS Boston, 1:22 p.m.
2026-09-21 12:17 p.m.MassLive's reading of the Juror Doe motion, published at midday, fills in requests the morning accounts did not carry and puts a third date on the paper. Charlie McKenna describes it as dated September 16 -- the Globe and boston.com had it filed Friday, Hearst and the Post Monday -- and says it names the holdout neither by name nor by seat, citing the impoundment order, though its contents leave no doubt whom it means. Beyond the preservation orders reported earlier, Reddington asks that the lawyers be given the juror's confidential questionnaire and any supplements he completed during selection; that the district attorney's office set out what it learned about the jurors before selection, what background checks it ran and what they returned; that the juror's carrier produce his call and text records for each deliberation day and that he hand the phone itself to a neutral examiner; and that the court preserve video of the corridor outside the jury room. The motion cites Nick Dargie's account to ABC News of the holdout scrolling on his phone during deliberations. Jurors in Massachusetts keep their phones but may not use them during trial or deliberations, MassLive notes, and there is no indication Sullivan had them collected. Asked about how the panel was screened, the district attorney's office declined to comment through a spokesperson. It remains unknown whether either side knew of the juror's record when he was seated. MassLive, under Charlie McKenna, 12:17 p.m.
2026-09-21 10:16 a.m.The appeal for the holdout juror stood at about $370,000 by Monday morning, MassLive reported, with more than 8,500 people having given to the online fundraiser set up in his support. The paper repeated what Michael Desronvil's lawyer has said the money is for -- his client's necessities after the death threats, doxxing and harassment that followed the mistrial, which the lawyer again attributed to a "lunatic mob." That is up from the $350,000 the New York Post reported on Sunday afternoon and the $361,000 the Boston Herald had on Sunday evening. MassLive, under Charlie McKenna, 10:16 a.m. MassLive's own page could not be read for this index; the headline, its summary line and the opening paragraph were read from the outlet's news feed, and the rest of the piece is not part of the record here.
2026-09-21 9:51 a.m.Reddington has taken the holdout juror to the court. A defense motion "to preserve juror records, to produce the juror questionnaire and related records, and for a limited inquiry into juror doe" is on the Plymouth Superior Court docket, the Boston Globe reported on Monday morning; the Globe had not obtained the document, which was not yet on the trial court's website, and described it as filed on Friday and as most likely aimed at the holdout. boston.com, which had read it, set out what it asks. Reddington wants Sullivan to preserve the trial's jury records -- the questionnaires, Juror Doe's summons and the sheets on which jurors signed their phones in and out during deliberations -- and to look privately at the juror's phone records for the deliberation-day hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. He also seeks the juror's entry in the statewide domestic violence registry, and an answer from the district attorney's office as to whether it has had any matter in the last five years in which Juror Doe was a defendant, complainant or subject, including a 2021 prosecution and a later abuse-prevention order. With those in hand, the motion asks the judge to question the juror on three things: whether his questionnaire and voir dire answers were truthful; whether he used a phone or received outside information while deliberating; and the assurance he gave under oath on September 3 that he could remain fair and impartial. The inquiry, the motion says, would not reach the substance of deliberations, and Reddington asks that it be argued on September 29. Hearst Connecticut, which also had the document, gives a different filing date: it reports the motion as filed on Monday, and the New York Post, working from Hearst's copy, says the same. Both note that Sullivan has not ruled, and both write that Cruz is expected to say on September 29 whether he will retry the case, without saying whose expectation that is. boston.com has asked the juror's lawyer for comment. Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen, 9:51 a.m.; boston.com, under Abby Patkin, 11:31 a.m.; Hearst Connecticut (Stamford Advocate), under Lisa Backus, Monday; New York Post, under Anthony Blair, 12:23 p.m.
2026-09-21 5:26 a.m.MassLive opened the week on the question that has hung over the panel since the holdout juror's record came out: how he got through selection. Charlie McKenna's piece notes that both sides had the names of the summoned jurors for months before empanelment, which ordinarily lets the district attorney's office run background checks and the defense make its own inquiries; a spokesperson for the Plymouth County District Attorney declined to comment on the selection process. Elyse Hershon, the Boston homicide lawyer, said a dismissed misdemeanor would not have disqualified him but that she doubts either side would knowingly have seated him -- prosecutors for fear of a grudge against their office, the defense because of a domestic-violence allegation in a case about violence inside a family. If neither side knew, the paper noted, the questionnaire required him to disclose the charge. The piece walks through the steps he passed: Sullivan's questioning of the pool as a group, the case-specific supplemental questionnaire -- sealed, though pretrial hearings described questions about mental-illness diagnosis and treatment in a juror's family and whether mental illness should count in deciding guilt -- and individual voir dire at sidebar, out of earshot, so that only the judge and the lawyers know what he was asked and what he said. Chris Muse, a retired Superior Court judge, cautioned against passing judgment on the juror until the sidebar is known, said he would not fault either party for keeping him even with knowledge of the charge, and suggested that barring jurors from talking to the press after service might be one way to protect deliberations. Hershon said the disclosures do not sound like enough to undo a hung jury, and the paper said it is unclear what bearing, if any, they have on the double-jeopardy challenge Weinberg was retained to bring, which it expects to center on the judge's decision not to remove the juror. MassLive, under Charlie McKenna, 5:26 a.m. MassLive's own page could not be read for this index; the account is taken from its syndicated copy.
2026-09-20 9:47 p.m.The broadcast drew a round of write-ups, none of which adds anything from the courtroom, and one comment from the defense. Kevin Reddington told NBC News that Patrick Clancy has plainly been set upon and had his life turned into a nightmare he does not deserve -- "Period. Full stop." -- a defense of the man who was the Commonwealth's first witness against his client. CNN recalled that Reddington had said something similar to Anderson Cooper earlier in the month: that Patrick Clancy went to her appointments, stood by her, testified and forgave her, which in the lawyer's words speaks volumes for the man. NBC News set the interview against Clancy's two days on the stand and the earlier statement from his own lawyer, Howard Cooper, threatening legal action over the theories. The Boston Globe filed on the broadcast ahead of air and updated afterward, then added a seven-point summary; the Herald and boston.com filed in the hour after it aired, CNN and NBC10 Boston the same evening, and an Associated Press account ran on Boston 25 and NBC10 Boston on Monday morning. The AP account gives Dawson's age as 2; the court record and every other account give 3. The New York Post cut the segment into four pieces between Sunday evening and Monday morning: Callan's death, the couple starting a family, the forgiveness exchange and the "like a dream" remark. NBC News, under Phil Helsel and Marlene Lenthang, 9:47 p.m., updated Monday 7:04 a.m.; Boston Globe, under Nick Stoico, 11:27 a.m., updated Monday 6:50 a.m., and under Lauren Albano, 8:54 p.m.; Boston Herald, under Grace Zokovitch, 9:12 p.m.; CNN, under Elise Hammond and Rebekah Riess, 8:14 p.m.; NBC10 Boston, under Marc Fortier, 7:42 p.m.; Associated Press, under Kimberlee Kruesi, Monday 6:45 a.m. on Boston 25; New York Post, under Zoe Hussain and Patrick Reilly, 7:39, 7:50 and 10:46 p.m. and Monday 7:58 a.m.
2026-09-20 7:58 p.m.The holdout juror intends to speak for himself, his lawyer says. Fox News reported on Sunday evening that Edward Paltzik had written on Facebook that Michael Desronvil will put out a personal statement, in his own words, in the near future. The lawyer thanked the people who had sent emails, texts and voice messages in support, allowed that others will disagree with the vote his client cast, and cast the matter as one of a juror's right to follow the evidence and the law wherever they lead without fear of reprisal. So far the juror has been heard only through the Thursday statement his lawyer posted, and the lawyer has said neither of them will give interviews. Fox News, under Stepheny Price, 7:58 p.m.
2026-09-20 7:06 p.m.The "60 Minutes" segment aired on Sunday evening -- fourteen and a half minutes with Ross Douthat, produced by Michael Karzis -- and CBS posted a companion article and the full transcript as it went out. Patrick Clancy's account of the months before January 24 tracks the trial record. He dated the first sign to October 2022, when Callan was five months old and Lindsay came downstairs one morning saying she had not slept at all; he told her he would take the children to school and she should rest. He said he knew nothing then about postpartum illness, could imagine severe anxiety or depression but not how to manage a postpartum condition, and that mental illness is "tragically deceptive," so there are surely things he did not see. December was the low point -- no sleep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts -- and at the end of it she went to the hospital; she was at McLean over New Year's, came home days later and was there for Cora's birthday on January 7. Of the night itself he said he came back from the errand to find her in the backyard, cut at the throat and wrists and paralyzed from the fall, and the children in the basement. What was new was what came after. He said that when he learned doctors had restored Callan's heartbeat he let himself hope for one child, whom he would raise as well as he could and tell about his brother and sister, until he reached the hospital and read the doctor's face. Callan's heart kept going for four days; he said he told his son he was sorry, lay down beside him and held him as he died, and that while he sat with him he typed tributes to all three children with one hand, out of a fear that unless he set them down in writing they would be forgotten. On forgiveness he said the headlines calling her a killer and a monster were not accurate, that he believes her illness caused it, and that he also forgave her because he would otherwise have been eaten up inside. Asked whether he had asked her why, he said he had asked whether she remembered it, and that she told him it was like a dream, recalled the way one recalls a dream on waking. She has never asked for his forgiveness, he said; he gave it anyway. Asked whether he failed, he said he did the best he could with what he had at the time and lives with the outcome every day. He described the months afterward: no routine and no purpose; a day he drove past the children's school at drop-off without meaning to and knew he could not stay; a period when he did not expect to reach his 35th birthday and was at peace with that; and a move to New York in April 2023 for the anonymity, where on May 26 he lit a candle for Callan's first birthday at St. Patrick's Cathedral and wept on Fifth Avenue with no one paying attention. He kept some of the toys, now around his apartment; a Duxbury playground carries a sloth for Cora, a firefighter for Dawson and a playpen for Callan; he dreams of them, once of Cora walking into the kitchen and hugging him. On the online theories that he was uncaring, unfaithful or the killer, he said they harm his children's legacy, distract from perinatal mental health, have done real harm to real people, make it hard to be in public, and that some who see a lie repeated enough come to believe it. On his testimony, which CBS says fed those theories because he looked composed, he said the second day was the hard one: at the recess before the 911 call was played he went to a back room, had a severe panic attack, was put in an ambulance and offered medication, refused it because he wanted to go back and finish, and did. That fits a gap in the day 2 record here, where a medical emergency was reported at the courthouse at about the time the call was played and no outlet said who was involved; boston.com places the panic attack in that recess, though no outlet has said in terms that the two are the same. He said he has sought out survivors, Postpartum Support International and psychiatrists to ask what they think happened. Dr. Rachel Danis, a fertility doctor, said they met in January 2024 in a New York run club and that she learned of the children over coffee, when she saw their picture on his phone as he paid and asked who they were; they married in New York in April, and both confirmed they are starting a family. Asked what he will tell that child, he said he cannot wait to tell them about their brothers and sister. CBS closed by noting that both Clancys have sued her providers for malpractice -- some deny wrongdoing and some have not yet answered, the companion article says -- and that she is held at Tewksbury Hospital awaiting a decision on retrial. CBS News, under Ross Douthat and Michael Karzis, 7:06 and 7:09 p.m., the transcript updated 9:41 p.m.; boston.com, under Abby Patkin, 9:13 p.m.
2026-09-20 12:39 p.m.The appeal passed $350,000 on Sunday afternoon, the New York Post reported, and the juror's lawyer gave the paper photographs of Michael Desronvil, smiling and holding his infant daughter, that had not been published before. The Post repeated the lawyer's account that his client had had to leave home for a secure location in rural New England, and said the organizer describes the money as meant for security, legal costs and lost work. By Sunday evening the Boston Herald had the figure just over $361,000. It quoted the page's own statement of purpose -- "If they come for him, and they will, this is to cover security, lawyers, and lost work" -- and noted that the appeal was set up by supporters after the September 4 mistrial and was attached to the juror by name only in the past few days. New York Post, under Anthony Blair and Alex Diaz, 12:39 p.m., updated 6:43 p.m.; Boston Herald, under Grace Zokovitch, 8:53 p.m.
2026-09-19 9:37 a.m.The question left open on Friday morning -- whether the holdout juror's lawyer meant to take over Tom Hennessy's GiveSendGo appeal or to replace it -- now has an answer: it stays, with the juror as its recipient. Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote on X on Friday evening that he had spoken that day with Hennessy and with Jacob Wells, a co-founder of GiveSendGo, and that steps had been taken so that his client receives every dollar directly, for what the lawyer called necessities after death threats, doxxing and harassment by a "lunatic mob." Wells said he had spoken with the juror to verify who he was and that he would be formally named as the recipient. On Saturday the lawyer added that none of the money would go to lawyers. The Post put the total above $330,000 by Saturday morning, with one anonymous gift of $10,000, and repeated the juror's Thursday statement and the earlier reporting on his record. New York Post, under Katherine Donlevy, 9:37 a.m., updated 10:55 a.m.
2026-09-18 8:03 p.m.A third clip from the interview went up on Friday evening, and it carries the line CBS has since used as the segment's headline. Ross Douthat asked Patrick Clancy whether he is angry at himself or feels he failed in some way; he answered that he thinks he did the best he could with what he had at the time, and that he lives with the outcome every day. The page set that against the court record as CBS reads it -- that in the months before the killings Lindsay Clancy saw a series of providers, accumulated a long prescription list and spent a few days in inpatient psychiatric care -- and gave the air time as 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. CBS News, 8:03 p.m. The New York Post carried the clip on Saturday morning, under Katherine Donlevy, 7:47 a.m.
2026-09-18 5:55 p.m.NBC 10 in Providence, which interviewed Paula Devlin on Thursday, returned on Friday evening to what the last two weeks have done to the panel. Devlin told the station that the public reaction turned sharply negative once jurors began to speak, and that when one juror, his family and his workplace began receiving threats the rest of the jury went quiet. The station sets that against the holdout juror's exposure -- anonymous until bloggers identified him after a Boston television station's report on his record -- and his own statement, which it carries as given to ABC News. Two outside voices weigh what it means for the next jury. Margaret McLean, a former prosecutor, said a juror who is supposed to remain anonymous has instead had his private life and his picture put on the internet, which she finds troubling as a lawyer, and asked whether people will now decline to serve for fear that their own histories, families or businesses will be laid open. Cole Goldberg, whom the station describes as a national advocate for fair trials and due process, said a juror asked to return an unpopular verdict while wondering whether his name and family will be online the next morning is under enormous pressure, and that a fair trial depends on jurors deciding on the evidence without that fear. Both said the courts may need stronger protections for jurors now that identifying a person online is far easier than it once was. Goldberg went further on a retrial: in his view a bench trial, decided by the judge alone, may be Clancy's only realistic course if the district attorney tries the case again, because he thinks it close to impossible to seat a jury that has seen nothing of the case and formed no opinion. The station notes that Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case and that the status hearing is set for September 29. NBC 10 (WJAR), under Nicole Moeder, 5:55 p.m.
2026-09-18 5:16 p.m.Boston 25 went back to Elyse Hershon, the Boston defense lawyer it uses as its legal analyst, now that the holdout juror has a lawyer of his own. She was not surprised he had retained one, given how much of the last two weeks has been aimed at him, and said a juror is entitled to hold to his view whether or not anyone likes it. She faulted his lawyer for the label: calling a juror a hero is as dangerous as calling him a villain, in her reading, and a lawyer's job is to bring the temperature down rather than feed the frenzy. Her larger concern is what the episode has shown about the jury system itself -- that jurors are not anonymous in practice, that deliberations meant to stay secret have not, and that a future juror may weigh the consequences to himself before deciding. The other jurors' accounts of the holdout and his own statement in reply were all permissible, she said, but should have stayed in the jury room. She said she would be watching whether the juror controversy is raised at the hearing at the end of the month. Boston 25, under Lisa Gresci, 5:16 p.m.
2026-09-18 9:35 a.m.Money is now following the holdout juror's statement. The New York Post reported that the GiveSendGo appeal set up in his name by Tom Hennessy, which stood at $115,000 on Monday morning and $150,000 that night in earlier accounts, had passed $286,000 by Friday morning, with one anonymous gift of $10,000 and small donations arriving every few minutes since Thursday evening. Where his lawyer stands on it is less simple. Edward Andrew Paltzik thanked Hennessy on X for the effort, calling it noticed and appreciated, and in the same breath said he would be setting up "an authorized, consolidated, and official fundraiser" for his client from here on. Boston 25 and Newsweek quoted the warning that went with it: any GiveSendGo or GoFundMe account claiming to act for the juror is, in his words, "100% FAKE, or at minimum" the work of well-meaning people he has not yet reached, and anything else is unauthorized "until I announce otherwise." Whether the Hennessy appeal is the one he means to consolidate, or one he means to displace, none of the three outlets says. New York Post, under Patrick Reilly, 9:35 a.m.; Boston 25, under Bryan Lambert, 10:01 a.m.; Newsweek, updated 9:37 a.m.
2026-09-18 8:53 a.m.The holdout juror will give no interviews. His lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, said so on X on Thursday evening, after the statement went out and, in his words, media requests had poured in: none, and he would give none on his client's behalf either. He asked the public to stay away from the juror's home, to stop calling him and not to try to work out where he is, and said the two of them are "focused entirely on his health, safety, and well-being." There would be a time for accountability and for "the real story of the Lindsay Clancy Trial to be told," he wrote, but not now; he expected to share more "in the coming days on an appropriate timeline." NBC News, which carried the statement on Friday morning, counted at least five other jurors who have described the holdout publicly, and noted that the three women who spoke to NBC10 Boston said he had expressed doubt in the prosecution's case, which his own statement denies. CNN quoted the same post in the Friday-morning update to its piece on the statement. NBC News, under Rebecca Cohen, 8:53 a.m.; CNN, updated 9:43 a.m. NBC10 Boston carried the NBC News report at 12:04 p.m.
2026-09-18 7:56 a.m.The Boston Globe filled in who Dr. Rachel Danis is, ahead of the Sunday broadcast. She is 37, a New York native, and the two married in April 2026, the paper said; her Mount Sinai faculty listing describes her as a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist and an assistant clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine. Patrick Clancy moved to New York City not long after the children were killed and met her there. The Globe noted that both have been the target of online conspiracy theories and that photographs of the couple on a Manhattan rooftop had circulated widely and drawn criticism, and it quoted CBS's Shanelle Kaul, on Friday's morning program, remarking that a very private life was now turning public. One point of conflict: the Globe describes Kaul as the correspondent who conducted the interview, while CBS's own pages credit Ross Douthat. Boston Globe, 7:56 a.m., updated 9:15 a.m.
2026-09-18 7:45 a.m.CBS released a second clip from the "60 Minutes" interview on Friday morning, and this one is Dr. Rachel Danis speaking. She said she does not understand how the story has been "so twisted," that she would hope people know Patrick Clancy as "the most selfless father and supportive partner," and, of how the two met, that she "was just a girl that met a guy running in Central Park on a really cold Saturday" and sees nothing wrong in that. They met in New York and were married this year, CBS said. The network's page also carried more of Patrick Clancy's exchange with Ross Douthat than Thursday's clip: asked whether the children help him when he talks to them, he said he likes to believe they do, and that it is how he stays connected to them. NBC10 Boston gathered both clips into a preview of the broadcast late Friday morning, and the Post followed its first piece with a second on how the couple met. CBS News, updated 7:45 a.m.; New York Post, under Patrick Reilly, 7:24 and 11:28 a.m.; NBC10 Boston, under Marc Fortier and Asher Klein, 11:29 a.m.
2026-09-17 8:35 p.m.The holdout juror has spoken for himself, in a written statement issued under his own name: Michael P. Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater. The statement went to NewsNation on Thursday, and CBS News obtained the same text through Ray Marcel, the YouTube host who had relayed the juror's account earlier in the week and whom his new lawyer describes as his representative; NBC News reported that he identified himself to NewsNation by that name. It opens: "I didn't have any doubts." As he tried to lay out different theories during deliberations, he says, he kept being cut off as though he had doubts about the evidence, and the physical evidence, the key witnesses and the prosecution's case were to him proof enough that Clancy knew exactly what she was doing and had planned it. That is a firsthand denial of the foreperson's account that he conceded a reasonable doubt in the jury room, and the conflict is logged under Discrepancies. He also now has a lawyer. Edward Andrew Paltzik, who the New York Post notes has previously represented President Trump, announced on X on Thursday that he represents the juror, said his client is "safe and sound at an undisclosed secure location in a rural area of Northern New England," called him "an American Hero and Champion of Justice" and said those who had attacked him online "will be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law and beyond." The Post reported that the lawyer's post did not use the juror's name. From Brockton and Bridgewater the Post added that he comes from a large family that emigrated from Haiti in 1982, that he had recently worked in pest control, and that a local garage owner said he and his new wife had left the area days earlier to keep out of sight. This index withheld his name while the court had sealed the jury list and he had not spoken; Sullivan's order leaves each juror free to identify himself, and he has now done so. New York Post, under Alex Oliveira and Ella Morrison, 8:35 p.m.; CBS News, under Kierra Frazier and Shanelle Kaul, 10:58 p.m. Fox News carried the statement at 9:44 p.m. and Newsweek overnight, saying it was provided through the lawyer; Boston 25 followed on Friday at 10:01 a.m., giving his full name as Michael Péguy Desronvil, and boston.com at 11:08 a.m., which likewise attributed the statement to his lawyer, set it against the other jurors' accounts of him in the jury room, and carried a further line from the lawyer's post: that his client had come through "utterly unbroken" because of his Catholic faith. CNN folded the statement into a national piece late Thursday night, updated Friday morning, and said it had asked the lawyer whether any legal action was being taken on the juror's behalf; NBC10 Boston aired the statement in a report at 11:38 a.m. Friday, its first on it, saying he stands by his view that Clancy was guilty. ABC News, at 10:09 a.m. Friday, said the statement had been shared with it directly by the lawyer that day, and likewise gave the full name as Michael Péguy Desronvil; it set the statement against Nick Dargie's account to the network earlier in the month that the holdout never pointed to a piece of evidence for his position. ABC News, under Katie Kindelan, 10:09 a.m., updated 1:48 p.m. The Boston Herald, on Friday afternoon, filled in who the lawyer is: a partner at Taylor Dykema who represented Trump in his October 2024 suit against CBS over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris, which ended in a $16 million settlement, and in disputes with the BBC and The New York Times. It quoted more of the Thursday post -- that the juror "loves the United States of America as the greatest country in the world" and supports the president "as a fellow defender of common-sense, liberty, and sanity" -- and, unlike the outlets above, is not naming the juror, saying it had left messages with his lawyer. Boston Herald, under Lance Reynolds, 2:49 p.m. TMZ, on Friday morning, said the same statement had been given to it as well.
2026-09-17 6:11 p.m.CBS Boston asked its legal analyst, Jennifer Roman, what Patrick Clancy's "60 Minutes" interview could mean for a second trial. Both sides will watch it, she said, because he was a central fact witness and anything he says in public can be used against him on the stand: a statement that differs from his testimony becomes material to impeach him with, and the rest is open ground for questioning. She does not expect the interview to change the district attorney's thinking on a retrial, because she doubts his account will stray from what he said under oath, which she found credible; she read him as a witness who had not wanted to be in the courtroom. If the case is tried again he can be subpoenaed again, and a subpoena is a court order. CBS Boston, under Kristina Rex, 6:11 p.m.
2026-09-17 4:38 p.m.NBC 10 in Providence posted the longer account of Nicole Moeder's interview with Paula Devlin late in the afternoon, replacing the short morning version. Devlin described the panel as twelve ordinary people. What she heard in court has stayed with her: she expects always to see the three children's faces, and tries to keep her mind from replaying Patrick Clancy's 911 call; on a beach trip since the trial she found she could not look at families with young children in the park next door. Each evening, she said, jurors had to work out how to set the day's testimony aside and go home. The deliberations, which she put at about 40 hours, she called agonizing, and said she chose the word deliberately. Jurors tried to hear out those who saw the evidence differently; she wanted to understand what drove a colleague's view before settling her own. The photographs of Cora, Dawson and Callan that Reddington had enlarged on posterboard leaned against the wall of the jury room while they worked. One juror, she recounted, said their instinct was that Clancy had known what she was doing, but that the evidence said otherwise and the evidence had to govern. Asked whether Clancy should be held responsible, she drew a line between not criminally responsible and not guilty: none of the jurors, she said, lost sight of the fact that Clancy killed her children. Of Patrick Clancy and those around Lindsay Clancy she said they did what they could with the understanding of mental illness they had, and had no inkling of what was coming. She keeps giving interviews, she said, because the trial opened a conversation worth having, though once a juror and that juror's family and workplace began receiving threats the rest of the panel went quiet. Her answer on a second trial is unchanged: no, because eleven to one says enough and no one should have to go through it again, and she doubts an unbiased panel could now be found. The rewritten piece no longer carries the whiteboard detail or the remark about a plea that the morning version reported; those stand here as the station reported them at 8:05 a.m. and 11:48 a.m. NBC 10 (WJAR), under Nicole Moeder, updated 4:38 p.m.
2026-09-17 12:12 p.m.Patrick Clancy will not be alone on "60 Minutes": his wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, sat for the interview with him. CBS News said so at midday on Thursday, a day after releasing the first clip of him, and described it as her first interview since her private life became a public subject during the trial. The network released new footage of the two of them with Ross Douthat, and the New York Post, which watched it, identified her as a fertility doctor practicing in New York City; neither outlet reported anything she said. CBS repeated that the segment covers his grief, mental health, his memories of Cora, Dawson and Callan and the conspiracy theories about him that spread online after the mistrial, and that it airs on Sunday, September 20 at 7 p.m. Eastern on CBS and Paramount+. The Boston Herald, revising its piece on the clip in the afternoon, put it more narrowly: she joins parts of the interview. CBS News, 12:12 p.m.; New York Post, under Alex Oliveira, 12:49 p.m.; Boston Herald, under Colleen Cronin, updated 2:27 p.m.
2026-09-17 11:39 a.m.Boston 25 asked Elyse Hershon, a Boston defense lawyer with no part in the case, what Martin Weinberg's arrival means in practice. In her reading the hire signals that the defense is preparing for a long appellate contest rather than a single hearing: a double jeopardy claim that fails before Sullivan would have to be carried up through the Massachusetts courts before any federal court could be asked to step in, and if it succeeds at any level there is no retrial, because the case ends. The station repeated the September 29 return date and noted, without giving a date, that the judge has ordered the juror questionnaires to stay sealed to protect both the seated jurors and the people who were considered during selection. Boston 25, under Frank O'Laughlin, 11:39 a.m.
2026-09-17 10:53 a.m.The holdout juror's side of the deliberations has reached print, though not from him directly. Ray Marcel, who hosts a true-crime YouTube show called "Fugitive TV," said on his Tuesday, September 15 broadcast that he had reached the juror by email and spoken with him that day for about an hour, off camera, and held up a photograph of a jury summons as proof of who he had been talking to. He repeated the account on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program on Wednesday evening, and TMZ carried it on Thursday morning. As Marcel tells it, the juror thought Clancy guilty from the first day of deliberations, believed she was sane when she killed the children, and never said he had a reasonable doubt -- which flatly contradicts the foreperson, Roni Carlson, who told NBC10 Boston he had conceded one. He put the panel's first vote at eight for not guilty, two for guilty and two undecided, called the eight "activists" who pressed the other four every day, and said a second juror who had thought Clancy guilty switched at the last moment. He also disputed the reporting on his record: he was never convicted of anything arising from the 2021 incident, Marcel said, checked the box on the juror questionnaire asking about arrests and described what had happened, and was questioned by the prosecution before he was seated, so in his own account he did not lie on the form. He told Marcel he thought he was being targeted for being a Black Republican; Marcel said he could not know whether that was the reason. Much of this should be read for what it is: the juror has not spoken to a news outlet or on camera, the account is a podcaster's summary of a private conversation, and The Megyn Kelly Show, which also aired it, described the interview as purported. He is identified in these reports by a first name only; this index withheld his name until he identified himself in a statement that evening. The New York Post returned to the targeting claim on Friday, quoting Marcel's Tuesday video, and added from the lawyer's posts on X that Marcel is now to field all media inquiries for the juror, that nobody else is authorized to speak for him, and that the lawyer describes his client as a supporter of President Trump. TMZ, 10:53 a.m.; NewsNation's video of the Cuomo segment; Primetimer and The Megyn Kelly Show, Wednesday; New York Post, under Natalie O'Neill, Friday 11:18 a.m.
2026-09-17 8:05 a.m.Paula Devlin gave another interview, this one to NBC 10 in Providence, and it adds two things to her earlier accounts: a detail of how the jury worked, and where she now stands on a second trial. She spoke with the station's Nicole Moeder for more than an hour on Wednesday. The panel, she said, wrote out its doubts about the Commonwealth's case on a whiteboard, with the photographs of the three children around them as they worked. On a retrial her first answer is still no: eleven to one says enough, in her view, and she does not think it is in anyone's interest to put the eighteen jurors and alternates through it again. She doubts twelve people without a fixed view could be found now, and allowed that her own interviews may be part of the reason. A plea, with a judge deciding the outcome, might be the best resolution, she suggested, though she said Clancy does not deserve jail; the station noted that Reddington has said he will not agree to any jail time. "We believe she was in a psychosis," Devlin said, adding that nothing put before the jury showed anything but a loving mother, who now has to live with what she did, and that the best outcome is to get her treatment and make sure it never happens again. The station said more of the interview would air Thursday evening. NBC 10 (WJAR), under Nicole Moeder, published 8:05 a.m. and updated 11:48 a.m.
2026-09-17 7:24 a.m.The first of Patrick Clancy's own words from the "60 Minutes" interview have been made public, a day after the segment was announced. CBS released a clip running about two and a half minutes, in which he says he still talks to his three children. Asked by the correspondent, Ross Douthat, what he says to them, he answers: "Help me. All the time." Nothing further from the conversation has been released, and the segment airs on Sunday, September 20 at 7 p.m. Eastern on CBS and Paramount+. It is the first time Patrick Clancy has been heard in his own voice since the mistrial; the two statements issued on his behalf since September 4 came through his lawyers. The Herald, describing the same clip, noted that he is seated on a park bench as he speaks. The Globe, reporting the clip at midday, set his words beside Reddington's remark to reporters after the mistrial that the 911 call was the measure of his credibility. CBS News; CBS Boston, updated 7:24 a.m.; New York Post, 7:30 a.m.; Boston Herald, 11:07 a.m.; Boston Globe, under Camilo Fonseca, 12:00 p.m.
2026-09-16 10:36 p.m.NBC10 Boston, whose September 11 report on the holdout juror's record started the questions about what he disclosed, put those questions to Carol Erskine, a retired Massachusetts judge. She said the questionnaire is the heart of the matter, but that nobody outside the court knows whether the juror answered the question about arrests, charges and court orders at all, or how; a false answer is a criminal matter, as the form itself says. She cautioned against treating the disclosures as a windfall for the defense: a process has to run first, and comparable episodes in other cases have not necessarily ended in the defendant's favor. The next step, in her view, is the defense's, which could ask the court to inquire into whether the juror answered truthfully; the station asked Clancy's lawyers whether they intend to and got no answer. The station's account describes a defense motion to dismiss as already filed. The notice Martin Weinberg filed on Tuesday describes that motion as forthcoming, and no outlet has reported it on the docket; the only post-trial defense motion reported filed is Reddington's September 10 motion for a required finding of not criminally responsible. NBC10 Boston, under Mary Markos, 10:36 p.m., updated 7:57 a.m. Thursday.
2026-09-16 1:18 p.m.Patrick Clancy has given his first interview since the trial, to "60 Minutes." CBS News announced on Wednesday afternoon that he sat down with correspondent Ross Douthat and that the segment will air on Sunday, September 20, at 7 p.m. Eastern on CBS and Paramount+; the network said he speaks about his grief, his memories of Cora, Dawson and Callan, and the conspiracy theories about him that spread on social media after the mistrial. Until now he has said nothing publicly himself: the two statements issued since September 4 came through his lawyers, the second of them Howard Cooper's warning of legal consequences for the online claims. He was the Commonwealth's first witness at the trial, and his 911 call was played to the jury but never broadcast. NBC10 Boston carried the announcement within the hour, and boston.com followed at 2:19 p.m., noting that he has since moved to New York and remarried and that the district attorney has still not said whether the case will be retried, reduced or resolved by agreement. Nothing he said in the interview was reported on Wednesday: the New York Post, which watched the teaser the network put out that afternoon, said it shows him walking in and taking his seat as the crew starts rolling, and nothing of the conversation. CBS News, 1:18 p.m.; NBC10 Boston; boston.com, under Abby Patkin, 2:19 p.m.; New York Post, 2:21 p.m.; Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen.
2026-09-16 12:42 p.m.A third impoundment order covers the confidential juror questionnaires. The Boston Globe reported from the court file at midday on Wednesday that Sullivan has sealed, for ten days, the questionnaires filled out during empanelment, in a two-page order that sits alongside his earlier orders sealing the jurors' names indefinitely and the July venire list. The order finds that, given threats and the concern for juror safety, "immediate and irreparable injury and danger to jurors and to the administration of justice, is real and present"; it recites that the case draws "significant and divisive attention" locally, nationally and abroad, that someone has been arrested and charged with secretly recording jurors as they left the courthouse, that jurors have been identified and their personal details spread without consent, and that at least one has been threatened. The clerk's office is to keep the forms until further order, and the seal runs ten days "from the date of issuance unless otherwise ordered by the Court for good cause shown." The outlets do not agree on the order's date: the Globe describes it as issued on Tuesday, while CT Post, in Hearst Connecticut's account late Wednesday afternoon, says it was filed Wednesday, and the Boston Herald, which reported it after 5 p.m., gave no date. CT Post added that the Superior Court had not answered its question earlier in the week about whether the questionnaires still exist, that the district attorney's office declined to comment on the jurors, and that state law makes a willful misrepresentation on the form, to get onto or off a jury, an offense carrying a fine of up to $2,000. The Herald noted the order is written in much the same terms as the two before it. All three outlets confirmed the case is next in court on September 29, and the Globe repeated that prosecutors have not said whether they will retry Clancy. Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen, 12:42 p.m.; CT Post, under Lisa Backus and Austin Mirmina, 4:51 p.m., updated 5:22 p.m.; Boston Herald, 5:07 p.m.
2026-09-15 10:29 p.m.Paula Devlin, 65, one of the eleven jurors who voted for a finding of not criminally responsible, told Boston 25 she was overcome on learning of Governor Healey's postpartum proposal, saying she had imagined that change of that kind might be discussed a decade from now, not within weeks. She repeated that the evidence had shown Clancy in a psychotic break, which under Massachusetts law is a ground for finding her not responsible, and said the three children would still be alive had their mother received the right help. She added that she does not want anyone summoned for jury duty to avoid it because of what happened to this panel, and that if something good comes of the case, that is justice for the children. Boston 25, under Daniel Coates, 10:29 p.m.
2026-09-15 7:41 p.m.The Boston Globe traced how the holdout juror could have been seated despite his record, from the parts of the selection process that are on the public file. In February both sides moved for early access to the list of prospective jurors, with names, dates of birth and addresses, and Sullivan granted the motions in April; neither the district attorney's office nor the defense would say whether they used the list. Prospective jurors first fill out the standard confidential form, which asks under penalty of perjury about arrests, charges, convictions and court orders, and which the court destroys after use. When they reported the week of July 20 they answered a second, case-specific questionnaire that asked, among other things, whether they or a family member had been diagnosed with postpartum depression, depression, generalized anxiety disorder or bipolar disorder; the questions put to them also covered whether they could be fair to a woman defendant and whether they considered the insanity defense legitimate. Individual questioning by the judge and counsel followed at sidebar, out of the public's hearing; one juror told the paper they were asked about criminal history there. The Globe noted that state law disqualifies only a person convicted of a felony in the past seven years or with an open felony case, so a dismissed misdemeanor charge and a civil abuse-prevention order would not have barred the holdout from serving, though he would have been required to disclose them. How he answered, and what the court and the lawyers knew, is not in the public record, and none of them has said. Boston Globe, under Sean Cotter, 7:41 p.m.
2026-09-15 7:41 p.m.Boston-area defense lawyers not involved in the case told the Globe the record should have prompted more questions. Keith Halpern said any sign of a possible bias against women should have been enough to exclude the juror, and that he wants to know whether the district attorney's office knew of the record and kept him anyway. Shannon Dale said she would have asked about the charge, the restraining order and his dealings with the courts, but that defense lawyers rarely seek to strike someone for a record alone; the question is whether the person can weigh the evidence without bias. Patrick Noonan of Plymouth County said the calculation usually cuts the other way, since it is prosecutors who assume a person with a record distrusts police, and that trial lawyers make these calls quickly and with little certainty. The paper noted that each side has a set number of peremptory challenges and that beyond those the seating decision rests with the judge, who has wide latitude. Boston Globe, under Sean Cotter, 7:41 p.m.
2026-09-15 6:49 p.m.A second lawyer has joined the defense for the double jeopardy fight. Fox News reported, from a Plymouth Superior Court filing it had obtained, that Martin Weinberg, the veteran Boston defense lawyer who tried to block Karen Read's retrial after her first trial hung in 2024, entered a limited appearance on Tuesday to file and argue the forthcoming motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds and to handle related matters. The filing does not say when the motion will be submitted; the case is next due in court on September 29. Fox recalled that Weinberg's argument for Read, that jurors had privately agreed to acquit on two counts, was rejected by the trial judge and then in state and federal court before she was retried and acquitted of the most serious charges in 2025. The Boston Globe confirmed the notice of limited appearance from court records on Wednesday morning, and added that Weinberg argued before the Supreme Judicial Court in 2024 for Read's bid to dismiss the charges left pending after her mistrial, that he won an acquittal this month for Suffolk Sheriff Steven Tompkins on two federal extortion counts, and that he represented Richard Vitale, acquitted of federal corruption charges in 2011 in the case that ended Speaker Salvatore DiMasi's career. The Globe also noted that prosecutors have still not said whether they will retry Clancy. Boston 25 reported the same filing on Wednesday afternoon and quoted its operative line: Weinberg "files his appearance of counsel for the purpose of representing the defendant in regard to filing and litigating a forthcoming Motion to Dismiss for Double Jeopardy and related matters." The Boston Herald, late Wednesday afternoon, also described the notice as filed Tuesday and recalled that Reddington had cited the Read case in court on September 4, arguing before the mistrial was declared that the jurors might all have agreed she was not guilty of first- or second-degree murder even though they could not agree on the counts. NBC 10 in Providence carried the same filing Wednesday afternoon, adding nothing beyond the September 29 status hearing and the district attorney's pending retrial decision. Fox News, under Stepheny Price, 6:49 p.m. Tuesday; Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen, 9:23 a.m. Wednesday; Boston 25, under Frank O'Laughlin, 3:25 p.m. Wednesday; NBC 10 (WJAR), 3:42 p.m. Wednesday; Boston Herald, 5:07 p.m. Wednesday.
2026-09-15 6:44 p.m.Two jurors from Karen Read's trials, speaking to CBS Boston anonymously, said the reaction to the Clancy mistrial shows why jurors' identities need protecting. One, who deliberated in Read's first trial, said that if jurors cannot be shielded, verdicts risk being driven by what is safest in the court of public opinion rather than by the evidence and the Commonwealth's burden, and described keeping quiet after that trial mainly to spare their family. The other, from the second trial, called jury service a duty rather than a choice, said they felt horrible that the Clancy jury had hung, and recalled staying at a friend's house for several days after bloggers turned up at home. Victoria George, an alternate on Read's first jury who later worked with the defense, said she expects judges in high-profile cases to impound jurors' names indefinitely from now on. CBS Boston, under Kristina Rex, 6:44 p.m.
2026-09-15 11:15 a.m.A brother of the holdout juror gave the New York Post the first extended account from the juror's own family. Interviewed in Brockton, he said religion had nothing to do with the vote, answering online speculation that the juror's Catholic faith had overridden the instructions: his brother had simply weighed the case and made his decision, which was good for some people and not for others. None of the family had known he was serving, the brother said, and since the mistrial they have been unable to leave the house, with notes left at their mother's home and constant calls. The Post, which is not printing the juror's name, also noted from the court file that the nephew's restraining order against him lapsed during the trial, consistent with the Globe's reading of an August 11 expiry, and quoted the owner of a local garage who described the juror as a church-going regular who had recently paid a stranger's fuel bill and whose family had gone into hiding. The Post put the GiveSendGo fundraiser at nearly $190,000 and described it as launched on Monday, which does not match Fox News's Monday-morning report of $115,000 raised over several days. Fox News carried the brother's remarks in its own piece at 12:09 p.m. New York Post, under Marie Pohl and Alex Oliveira, 11:15 a.m.; Fox News, 12:09 p.m.
2026-09-15 11:11 a.m.A second order, also dated Monday, seals the venire list for ten days. The Boston Globe, in its Tuesday account of the main order, reported that Sullivan had separately impounded for ten days the names of everyone who came to the courthouse for jury selection in the week of July 20, and quoted his finding that threats and concerns over juror safety make immediate and irreparable injury to jurors and to the administration of justice real and present. NBC10 Boston, boston.com and CBS Boston carried the same second order later in the day: NBC10 gave the selection dates as July 20 to 24 and noted the order's reference to at least one juror having received threats, and CBS quoted its reasoning without giving the duration. The Monday-night accounts of the main order, and the Epoch Times and Fox News pieces on Tuesday morning, had not mentioned it. Boston Globe, 11:11 a.m.; NBC10 Boston, 12:07 p.m.; boston.com, 12:36 p.m.; CBS Boston, 12:55 p.m.
2026-09-15 10:16 a.m.Governor Healey tied a spending request to the case. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Tuesday she said she will ask the Legislature, in a supplemental budget, for $2 million to expand Welcome Family, the Department of Public Health program that sends a maternal and child health nurse for one free home visit in the weeks after a birth, and $250,000 more for MCPAP for Moms, the Department of Mental Health program that supports clinicians treating pregnant and postpartum patients. The visiting program now reaches about 3,000 of the state's roughly 68,000 annual births and, the Globe reported, gets no state money at present; the public health commissioner, Robbie Goldstein, said he hopes the addition would let it serve every family that opts in. The MCPAP money would, in the governor's office's account, pay for tracking postpartum psychosis data and for educating providers and families about its warning signs, and the public health department intends to widen its screening regulations beyond postpartum depression. Healey said postpartum illness is nothing new but that the Clancy trial had raised the conversation to a new level, nationally and internationally. CBS Boston's evening account added that eleven mothers told their own stories at the event, and quoted Goldstein saying the $2 million would let the visiting program reach every delivery in every community. The Associated Press, in a Wednesday morning account, set the proposal against the state's own figures: its maternal mortality review committee found mental illness, counting substance use disorder, to be the leading underlying cause of death among pregnant women and new mothers in Massachusetts from 2019 through 2024, at 38 percent, and judged 85 percent of those deaths preventable, more than half of them falling between a week and a year after the birth. The AP also recalled that Healey signed a maternal health law in 2024 that widened access to doulas, midwives and birth centers and required insurers to cover postpartum depression screening. NBC10 Boston, from the State House News Service, 10:16 a.m.; Boston Globe, 12:45 p.m.; CBS Boston, under Louisa Moller, 7:57 p.m.; Associated Press, under Leah Willingham, via boston.com, 10:05 a.m. Wednesday.
2026-09-15 6:46 a.m.Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, whose critical posts after the mistrial Fox News had already gathered, went further in an interview with TMZ on Monday, reported by the New York Post on Tuesday morning. The Post quoted her calling Clancy a serial killer, saying she should receive the death penalty and that the execution should be public, as a warning to women not to kill their children, and dismissing Reddington's request for a presidential pardon as a publicity stunt. New York Post, under Patrick Reilly, 6:46 a.m.
2026-09-15 6:40 a.m.The fundraiser for the holdout juror passed $150,000. Boston 25, in a Tuesday piece on the scrutiny jurors in high-profile cases now face, reported that the GiveSendGo appeal titled "Stand with the Juror" stood above $150,000 as of Monday night, up from the $115,000 Fox News had reported on Monday morning. The station also noted that the court's sealing of the jury list had not stopped his apparent identity from being posted by bloggers, some of whom call him a hero. Pierre Bergeron, a retired Ohio appellate judge, told Boston 25 that targeting jurors makes people less willing to serve, and that a juror should not go into a courtroom expecting to be rewarded or punished for a verdict. Boston 25, 6:40 a.m.
2026-09-14 11:41 p.m.Sullivan extended the impoundment of the jury list indefinitely. In an order issued Monday, he accepted that jurors' names are ordinarily public but found a real and present risk of harm to the jurors, and to the integrity of their work, if the list were released now. He pointed to the significant and divisive attention the case continues to draw, to jurors having been identified and their personal details published without permission, to the arrest of one person charged with secretly recording jurors as they left the courthouse, and to a request from at least one juror that the sealing be made open-ended. Some jurors have given interviews since the mistrial, he wrote, but most, alternates included, have chosen to stay anonymous despite repeated requests. The names remain sealed until the court orders otherwise; jurors stay free to identify themselves. The order replaces the September 4 impoundment, which would have lapsed on September 18. The Boston Globe, reporting the order on Tuesday, quoted it as keeping the names sealed "until and unless otherwise ordered by the Court" and as finding "a risk of immediate and irreparable injury" if the list were released now. WJAR, which ties the extension to the online identification of the presumed holdout, 11:41 p.m.; the Epoch Times and Fox News reported the order on Tuesday morning, and Boston 25, the Boston Globe, NBC10 Boston, boston.com and CBS Boston by Tuesday midday; the Boston Herald, under Colleen Cronin, at 3:56 p.m.
2026-09-14 10:12 p.m.The Boston Globe became the first major outlet to publish the holdout juror's name, saying it had confirmed his identity from photographs posted online, court records and an interview with one of the other jurors. This index did not repeat the name at the time: the court had found a real and present risk of harm in the jurors' identification, and he had not spoken publicly. It uses the name from September 17, when he identified himself in a statement to the press. The paper described him as 48 and living in Bridgewater, said its repeated attempts to reach him failed, and quoted a brother who said he had never been violent toward him, had not known of the assault allegations, and took his seating on the jury as proof he was qualified to serve. Boston Globe, under Shelley Murphy, Chris Serres and Shannon Larson, 10:12 p.m.
2026-09-14 10:12 p.m.The Globe's own reading of the court file added dates and terms to what NBC10 Boston had reported. The restraining order was issued in August 2025 by a Brockton District Court judge, who found a substantial likelihood of immediate danger of abuse; it barred the juror from contacting his teenage nephew, kept him away from the nephew's Bridgewater home and required him to give up any firearms, and it ran until August 11, 2026, the third week of testimony. The nephew's affidavit described an argument over a blocked parking space that ended with him on the floor, punched twice in the face and threatened with death. The 2021 assault charge involving the juror's then wife was dismissed after the couple divorced; he was never convicted. In Housing Court, the paper found no rent paid since March, a court date of his own missed in early August while he sat on the case, and a judgment of more than $12,600 entered for the landlord during deliberations, with an eviction now going forward. Boston Globe, 10:12 p.m.
2026-09-14 10:12 p.m.Reactions gathered by the Globe on Monday. Paula Devlin, the juror who has given several interviews, said a pending court order is different from a past mistake and that he should have been kept off the panel; she said jurors had been asked about their criminal backgrounds. A spokesperson said District Attorney Cruz would not comment on the jury selection process, and Reddington also declined to comment. Daniel F. Conley, the former Suffolk district attorney, said most judges would have granted a challenge for cause on that record. Jack Lu, the retired Superior Court judge, said the standard questionnaire is short and easy for a layperson to misread, and that a civil order or a dismissed charge does not take away the right to serve. David Rossman of Boston University said the disclosures strengthen the defense's argument against a second trial: a juror cannot be removed for an unusual view of the evidence, he said, but can be for willfully ignoring the definition of reasonable doubt, and the judge might have looked further into the juror's conduct before declaring a mistrial. Boston Globe, 10:12 p.m.
2026-09-14 10:12 p.m.The Globe described the September 29 hearing as one Sullivan has scheduled to set a trial date, a firmer reading than other outlets, which have called it a status hearing on how the case proceeds. Cruz has still not said whether he will seek to retry Clancy on first-degree murder, which would require a new jury; the paper noted that if the charges were reduced to second-degree murder she could waive a jury and have a judge decide. Boston Globe, 10:12 p.m.
2026-09-14 5:54 p.m.The man believed to be the holdout juror has been named on social media. WJAR, the NBC station in Providence, reported Monday afternoon that a name and photograph said to be his were circulating online; it is not printing them, because the court has neither released nor confirmed his identity, and he has still not spoken publicly. The station's legal analyst, Austin Dana, said that simply stating who sat on a jury is not a crime, but doing it recklessly or to threaten or harass someone is, and that if the domestic violence history NBC10 Boston reported had been disclosed on the juror's questionnaire, it would probably have kept him off the panel. When WJAR published, the jury list was still due to become public on September 18. WJAR, 5:54 p.m.
2026-09-14 4:51 p.m.Paula Devlin answered the bias charge in person. Interviewed by Fox News Digital in Whitman on Monday, the juror, 65, said her weekend remark about the case starting a conversation on women's mental health had been taken as proof the panel came in with an agenda, and rejected that reading: the jury went by the evidence, she said, and the prosecution's case had gaps in it. Because only women give birth and only women get postpartum depression or psychosis, she argued, weighing that evidence is not bias but fact. She said Clancy had asked for help again and again without getting it, and that she believes the three children would be alive had that help come. The weakest point in the Commonwealth's case, in her view, was that it produced no one -- not even Patrick Clancy -- with anything bad to say about Lindsay Clancy, and she said she is sure prosecutors looked. She added that she is still haunted by the children's faces and by the thought that the jury might have missed something, and that not finishing the task feels like failure whatever people tell her. Fox News, 4:51 p.m.
2026-09-14 11:13 a.m.Paula Devlin gave a second CBS interview, on Saturday's "CBS Saturday Morning" with Shanelle Kaul, and Fox News on Monday picked out one remark from it. The jurors, she said, understood even inside their bubble that the case was a turning point that could change things for other women and other families, and that justice for the children meant this never happening again; had the holdout shown the panel some evidence, she added, they would all have accepted it. Neama Rahmani, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, told Fox the remark was a problem because a jury's job is to decide the case in front of it, not the effect of its verdict on other women or other cases -- though with a mistrial already declared and deliberations generally shielded from inquiry, he saw little that could be done about it. CBS News video, Saturday 7:12 a.m.; Fox News, 11:13 a.m.
2026-09-14 11:13 a.m.Fox News reported that a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the holdout juror had taken in more than $115,000 in a few days, which its organizer said was for security, lawyers and lost work. The juror had not answered Fox's attempts to reach him and, as of Monday, had not spoken publicly about the case. Fox News, 11:13 a.m.
2026-09-13 3:58 p.m.President Trump, asked on Sunday before boarding Air Force One at Shannon Airport in Ireland about Reddington's appeal for a pardon, said he had heard it and called the case a very sad situation with no winner: three children are dead. It was, he said, a state situation and not a federal one. Asked whether he would call the district attorney, as Reddington had hoped, he said he appreciated that the lawyer felt that way, that he had heard Reddington was a very good attorney, and that he hoped they could work it out -- "that's something they have to work out." Boston 25, reporting the remarks on Monday afternoon, dated them to Monday, where the other accounts put them on Sunday. Fox News, 3:58 p.m.; Boston Herald, 7:30 p.m.; Boston Globe, Monday 8:29 a.m.; CBS Boston, Monday 9:20 a.m; boston.com, Monday 3:18 p.m.; Boston 25, under Frank O'Laughlin, Monday 1:58 p.m.
2026-09-13 3:15 p.m.CBS News checked the holdout juror's record for itself. Citing the Brockton Police Department, it reported that he was accused of domestic violence in September 2021 after his wife's 13-year-old nephew called 911 about an argument; the report alleged he had grabbed his wife by the throat and thrown her into a dresser. He was charged with one count of domestic assault and battery, pleaded not guilty, and the charge was later dismissed, according to court records. CBS said it had reached out to the juror and his family without reply, and that it was not publishing his name because the jury list has not been made public. CBS News, 3:15 p.m.
2026-09-13 3:15 p.m.Caroline Polisi, the network's legal analyst, said the real question is whether the juror made purposeful misrepresentations during selection, which would be a crime, while an arrest by itself does not disqualify a person from a jury. The questionnaires are sealed in the court record, so she doubted the answer would come out without a court-ordered inquiry. As for the case, she said a false answer would ordinarily be grounds to attack a guilty verdict, and with a mistrial already declared it was unclear what it would change. CBS News, 3:15 p.m.
2026-09-13 6:30 a.m.CNN's Eric Levenson put the holdout's position to people who study the defense, and they said it is a familiar one: a juror who accepts that the Commonwealth left doubt but will not sign a slip that says a woman who killed her children is not responsible. Joni Johnston, a forensic psychologist, said some people hold as a matter of conviction that there can be no explanation for killing one's children that does not call for punishment; Gary Galperin, a former prosecutor who works on forensic psychiatry, said the whole system is built on holding wrongdoers liable, so the reluctance is what one would expect from reasonable people. Margaret McLean, a former prosecutor who followed the trial, said the public does not understand mental illness and the defense sits in a gray area most jurors have never had to think about. Reported by CNN, Sunday 6:30 a.m.
2026-09-13 6:30 a.m.The same piece set the case against Reddington's own history with the defense. In 1989 he persuaded a jury that Therese Rogers was temporarily insane when she stabbed her abusive husband, one of the earliest uses of what was then called battered woman syndrome; in 2002 a jury rejected the same defense for Michael McDermott, the Wakefield workplace shooter, and convicted him of seven counts of first-degree murder. CNN also noted the Massachusetts allocation of the burden -- once the defense is raised, prosecutors must prove criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt, where many states make the defendant prove insanity -- and that the Supreme Court upheld a state's abolition of the defense in Kahler v. Kansas in 2020. Reported by CNN, Sunday 6:30 a.m.
2026-09-12 7:56 p.m.Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida took the holdout juror's side against the NBC10 Boston report on his court record. In a post on X on Friday, September 11, the Boston Herald reported, DeSantis wrote that a man had objected to letting a woman kill her three young children and get away with it, and that the station was trying to smear a juror whose identity ought to be protected. If the juror was being harassed, he added, Florida would provide him asylum. The Herald noted that the station's post on X had drawn a Community Note citing the Massachusetts statute on harassing jurors. Boston Herald, 7:56 p.m.
2026-09-12 7:56 p.m.The Herald also gathered two Massachusetts reactions to the report on the juror. Jack Lu, the retired Superior Court judge, called the broadcast unwise and ill-considered given that jury service is compulsory, and said a lone juror is entitled to hold out without becoming a public spectacle, whatever one makes of the vote. Gregory V. Sullivan, president of the New England First Amendment Coalition, put the question the other way: whether the juror had been truthful during selection, since he could not imagine the man being seated had he disclosed an outstanding restraining order out of Brockton District Court. Boston Herald, 7:56 p.m.
2026-09-11 4:51 p.m.NBC News gave a reason the 2021 assault charge against the holdout juror was dismissed. His former wife told NBC10 Boston this week that she had not wanted to testify against him, because she was afraid of losing custody of her daughter. Michael Coyne, the station's legal analyst, also said that a juror who does not answer the questionnaire truthfully commits a crime. NBC News, under Ryan Kath's byline, at 4:51 p.m.
2026-09-11 4:00 p.m.NBC10 Boston reported that the juror who held out against the other eleven has a record of domestic violence allegations in Massachusetts courts. Ryan Kath's investigative piece traced a criminal charge brought against him in Brockton District Court in September 2021, after his wife's 13-year-old nephew called 911. The police report on that call says the juror took his wife by the throat and threw her against a dresser. The couple divorced afterward and the charge was later dismissed. The station is not naming him: the jury list is impounded and he has not spoken publicly. NBC10 Boston, at 4:00 p.m.
2026-09-11 4:00 p.m.Two of the matters NBC10 Boston found were live while the juror was sitting on the case. The same nephew, by then a teenager, obtained a restraining order against him last year on an allegation that the juror knocked him down and punched him in the face repeatedly; the station reported that the order was still in force when he was seated and for weeks while he heard evidence. In the housing court, a landlord's case over rent unpaid since March produced a judgment against him for more than $12,000 last week, while the jury was out, and an eviction is pending. NBC10 Boston, at 4:00 p.m.
2026-09-11 4:00 p.m.What that record means for how he came to be seated is not answerable from the public file. Michael Coyne, the station's legal analyst and the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, said the questionnaire Massachusetts gives jurors asks about arrests, charges and court orders, and that he does not see either side accepting this juror had those answers been given accurately. Whether they were cannot be checked: juror questionnaires are not public records and may since have been destroyed. Relatives who spoke to the station were estranged from him and had not known he was on the jury; one called him a narcissist who should not have been trusted with a case of this weight. The station asked the Plymouth district attorney's office and Clancy's defense about the findings and reported no answer from either. NBC10 Boston, at 4:00 p.m.
2026-09-11 12:17 p.m.In a survey of what the jurors have said since the mistrial, the Globe carried one voice the others had not: a woman on the panel, who would not give her name, told WBZ-TV she would defend the holdout to a point. Nearly everyone in that room, whichever side they were on, had been firm from the start, she said, and he was not the only one unwilling to look at it from the other direction. There were, as she put it, some big personalities in the room, and in the end it came down to an inability to move past one's own convictions. Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen's byline, at 12:17 p.m.
2026-09-11 9:42 a.m.Paula Devlin sat with Gayle King on CBS Mornings on Friday and described where the panel stood at the start, which no juror had yet set out. When deliberations opened, eight were for not criminally responsible, two were undecided and two were for murder. The twelve were nine women and three men, aged from 22 to about 70, and one of them was not white: a Black man in his 30s, the juror who became the holdout. Devlin's own position never moved. She had been leaning toward not responsible on the evidence, she said, went in with a list of things she wanted to look at again, and found that every point made in the room pushed her further the same way. CBS News, under Mark Osborne's byline, at 9:42 a.m.
2026-09-11 9:42 a.m.Devlin thought the weight of the room was part of why the last juror would not move. By the time the count stood at 10-2 the majority was working as much to satisfy itself as to bring anyone across, she said, and the two still on the other side felt attacked -- something she did not see a way around. "Even in normal conversation, when it is pointed at you and you have to defend yourself, it's a hard thing to do," she told King. CBS News, at 9:42 a.m.
2026-09-11 9:42 a.m.Two witnesses settled the question for her. Resnick's evidence on altruistic filicide, Devlin said, offered a reason for something that until then had none: every witness had described a devoted mother, and the photographs taken inside the house that night showed the same thing everywhere she looked, down to a sign reading "It's a wonderful life." The other was Patrick Clancy. "I think the prosecution tried to nudge Patrick to say something derogatory and he wouldn't," she said, and that a man who had lost his three children still would not speak badly of their mother stayed with her. CBS News, at 9:42 a.m.
2026-09-11 9:42 a.m.Devlin does not want the case thrown out, although she believes Clancy was not criminally responsible. Asked about Reddington's motion for a finding of not guilty -- which CBS said lawyers outside the case regard as a long shot -- she said she did not feel good about it. What the jury was reaching for, as she understood it, was a verdict that would commit Clancy to treatment rather than let her walk free, and that was how the panel meant to do right by the children. "Those children never left that room. They've never left our hearts," she said. None of it would have happened, she added, had Clancy not been lost in the system and failed by it. CBS News, at 9:42 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.The Boston Globe put the retrial question to lawyers with no part in the case, and several of them said the deadlock ought to give Cruz pause about charging murder in the first degree a second time. David Yannetti, who defended Karen Read at her 2024 trial and again at the retrial that followed a hung jury, said a prosecutor reading this result should conclude the case is barely alive. The test he would apply is whether the office can ever get a conviction, and if it cannot, he said, it should not try again. He thinks Clancy would be harder to retry than Read was, because this panel divided so lopsidedly against the Commonwealth and reached an impasse on every count open to it -- murder in the first degree, murder in the second, and manslaughter. Boston Globe, under Sean Cotter's byline, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.Greg Connor, a former Norfolk County prosecutor who has tried homicides, told the Globe that his old office would ordinarily have charged a mother accused of killing her children with murder in the second degree rather than the first. The difference is procedural as well as penal: the lesser charge can be tried to a judge sitting without a jury, which would mean a shorter case and no second deadlock, one judge having no one to hang with. He raised the family too. Patrick Clancy called the prospect of a retrial extraordinarily painful in the statement he issued hours after the mistrial, and Connor's point was that a prosecution the victims' relatives are not behind invites the question of who it is for. Boston Globe, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.Other lawyers gave the Globe reasons Cruz would press on. Audrey Mark, formerly chief of the child-abuse unit in the Suffolk district attorney's office, said a hung jury does not ordinarily move a prosecutor who believes the evidence is there: sometimes you lose, and the case is still worth bringing. What settles it, she said, is whether the office regards bringing the case and winning it as justice. Cruz has said since the mistrial that he still regards Clancy as a murderer. The Globe also set out the advantage a second trial conventionally gives the Commonwealth -- the jurors' accounts show where the case failed, and the defense has now shown its hand. Boston Globe, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.Elyse Hershon, a Boston defense lawyer who handles homicide cases, cautioned the Globe against reading the jurors' accounts too literally while the holdout has said nothing publicly. What they describe may be exactly what happened, she said, or it may be how it looked to eleven people who did not like his decision. The Globe added a qualification of its own: one juror has said several of the panel started out leaning toward conviction and moved later, which leaves open that another twelve might hear the Commonwealth's case differently. Boston Globe, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.The Globe set the decision beside a South Shore case that deadlocked the other way. Emanuel Lopes, who shot a Weymouth police sergeant and a bystander in 2018 and also contested criminal responsibility, went to trial in 2023 and drew a jury divided eleven to one -- for conviction. Norfolk County retried him, swapping out its mental health experts for others who said he did not meet the standard, and the second jury convicted him, the Globe reported, of murder in the first degree on one count and the second degree on the other. Connor led that prosecution, and said he bought his office lunch after the first trial and asked his colleagues what they had seen so he could do it better. Boston Globe, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-11 7:39 a.m.The Globe also priced the comparison it had drawn. Read's first trial cost more than $700,000 in public money, most of it security, by the paper's earlier reading of the records; the district attorney's office there then spent more than $560,000 again on the retrial, including a special prosecutor, and $1.4 million on that second trial in all. It did not buy a better result. The first Read jury was reported to have leaned toward manslaughter; the second acquitted her of everything but a drunken driving count. Boston Globe, at 7:39 a.m.
2026-09-10 9:53 p.m.A juror who gave her first name as Paula, and her age as 65, told WCVB that the deadlock still sits with her. Jurors are told they are not supposed to feel they failed, she said, but the task they were given was to come out unanimous and they could not, and everything the eleven tried did not move the twelfth: "I feel like we let down Lindsay." What the majority took from the evidence, she said, was that the medical community failed Clancy and with her the whole family, since an illness like that reaches everyone in a house, and that educating people better about it would help the family as a unit. Fox News, under Landon Mion's byline, at 9:53 p.m.
2026-09-10 9:53 p.m.She also gave a count of what the jury was sent out with: 297 pieces of evidence, among them Patrick Clancy's 911 call, which she said some jurors found hard to sit through again in the jury room. The panel polled itself as soon as it began -- eight for not criminally responsible, two for guilty, two undecided, the same figures she would give CBS the following morning. "We did not start out 11 to one," she said. "Everybody had different opinions and different reasons and different ways that they got there." The hard part, she said, was holding the children apart from the task, and the room worked at helping each other do it. Fox News, at 9:53 p.m.
2026-09-10 9:53 p.m.On the holdout, she said the majority could not follow his reasoning. He acknowledged at different points that he had doubt about the case the Commonwealth had put on, she said, and as the rest of the panel read the judge's instruction, doubt meant they could not convict on murder in the first degree, on murder in the second degree or on manslaughter. Sullivan then asked each juror whether they could apply the law as he had given it, and each said yes. "The judge has to believe that people are telling him the truth. And so, you know, 11 people told the truth and one maybe didn't. And I will never know why." Fox News, at 9:53 p.m.
2026-09-10 9:53 p.m.What would have changed things, on her account, was evidence. Had the holdout given the room anything to support his position, she said, the jury would not have sent the judge the note it sent. And had the court taken him off the panel, she would have thought it worth putting an alternate in his place and starting the deliberations over rather than ending the trial where it ended. Fox News, at 9:53 p.m.
2026-09-10 8:43 p.m.The Boston Globe published a long interview with Paula Devlin, one of the jurors who had already spoken to NBC10 Boston, and she described a piece of evidence the public has never seen. Partway through deliberations the jury watched a recording of Clancy being interviewed at Tewksbury Hospital in April by a psychiatrist and a psychologist who were evaluating her for the prosecution. It had been marked as an exhibit but was never played in open court and has not been released. What it showed them, Devlin said, was a woman who was delusional and did not believe she was doing anything wrong. Boston Globe, under Shelley Murphy's byline, at 8:43 p.m.
2026-09-10 8:43 p.m.Devlin said the recording changed what the panel understood by altruistic filicide, the term for a parent who kills a child out of a delusional belief that it is best for the child. It convinced her that Clancy was deeply depressed and wanted to die, and that in that state, as Devlin put it, "her delusion was, her kids would be better off if she had to be gone, then they had to be gone." One of the three men on the jury, the same man who later refused to acquit, said after watching it that it made him step back from murder in the first degree and that he no longer thought the killings were premeditated. Boston Globe, at 8:43 p.m.
2026-09-10 8:43 p.m.Devlin also said that jurors who have spoken publicly are being threatened. She does not know the full extent of it -- "I don't even know what all the threats are" -- but said enough have arrived that some of her fellow jurors are frightened, and are holding back from the subject they most want to raise, which is the mental health system and how it failed Clancy. She faults medicine in general and mental health care in particular, she said, for a system that has no answer for someone who keeps asking for help and keeps getting worse. Boston Globe, at 8:43 p.m.
2026-09-10 8:43 p.m.Asked about a retrial, Devlin said she doubted twelve people could be brought to agree that Clancy is guilty of murder at any level: the defense's case was very strong, she said, and the panel did not reach 11-1 easily. A verdict of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility would have been just, in her view, because it would have committed Clancy to a state psychiatric hospital, to be reviewed from time to time and released only if a judge found she was no longer a danger. Boston Globe, at 8:43 p.m.
2026-09-10 4:14 p.m.CBS Boston covered the same Dedham hearing and carried more of what Krowski said outside it. He asked that the courts not fall back on what he called the default position, in which a woman who is plainly mentally ill is prosecuted criminally as far as the law allows. CBS puts MacAusland's age at 49, reports that her requests for bail have been denied, and says the case cannot move until the medical examiner settles the cause and manner of the two children's deaths. She is due back in court on October 29. Reported by CBS Boston, under Neal Riley's byline, at 4:14 p.m.
2026-09-10 3:22 p.m.ABC News took the renewed motion to the prosecution and came away with nothing. A spokesman for Timothy Cruz was asked on Thursday what the district attorney's office made of it and declined to comment, and Cruz has still not said publicly whether he intends to try the case a second time. ABC reports that the motion is to be argued on September 29, the date already set for the two sides to come back before Sullivan. Reported by ABC News, under the bylines of Peter Charalambous, Katie Kindelan and Vera Drymon, at 3:22 p.m.
2026-09-10 2:33 p.m.boston.com added a qualification to the renewed motion. Reddington, who has been openly critical of the holdout juror, says the motion does not rest on how the jury voted. It puts the question as one for the court -- whether the record, taken most favorably to the Commonwealth, could support the finding the Commonwealth needed -- and says it could not, and that every juror who applied the reasonable doubt standard reached that conclusion. The Commonwealth, the papers say, had to prove that a woman all six experts agreed was mentally ill nonetheless kept the capacity the law demands, and it did not. The district attorney's office has not said whether it will retry her, reduce or drop the charges, or resolve the case by agreement. Reported by boston.com, under Abby Patkin's byline, at 2:33 p.m.
2026-09-10 2:29 p.m.Boston 25 News read the motion for the part of it that answers the Commonwealth's case about what Clancy was able to do on January 24. The papers list what the prosecution leaned on -- that she drove, called the pediatrician, sent her husband out on errands, ran internet searches and worked through a sequence of steps -- and answer that being able to carry out everyday tasks does not rule out severe mental illness. The same account gives the labels the Commonwealth's experts used for her condition: a major depressive episode, or bipolar II disorder with dissociation. Reported by Boston 25 News, under Frank O'Laughlin's byline, at 2:29 p.m.
2026-09-10 12:53 p.m.boston.com's own account of the two malpractice suits added the defendants' side of them, which the Globe's did not reach. All four defendants in Patrick Clancy's suit -- Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health and South Shore Health -- moved together in April to have it dismissed, on the ground that they owed no duty of care to the children and were covered by the state law that governs when a mental health clinician has to warn someone who may be at risk. Aster's lawyers wrote that Clancy never told Tufts she was having hallucinations, or that she had thoughts of harming herself or her children. Reported by boston.com, under Abby Patkin's byline, at 12:53 p.m.
2026-09-10 12:53 p.m.The providers have also demanded a medical malpractice tribunal, the screening step Massachusetts puts in front of a claim of this kind. boston.com reported two separate demands filed last month: one by Tufts, and one by Jollotta and Julie Paul, of South Shore Hospital's perinatal behavioral health program. South Shore Health's lawyers wrote that Jollotta had started appropriate, evidence-based drug treatment and that both clinicians met the standard of care. Reported by boston.com.
2026-09-10 12:53 p.m.boston.com counts eleven defendants in Lindsay Clancy's own suit, and names them: alongside Tufts, Jollotta, Aster Mental Health and South Shore Health, they are the psychiatrist Dr. Alia Goodheart, the nurse practitioner Julie Paul, the counselor Latiesha Dukes, McLean Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Dr. Zobeida Diaz and Dr. Elizabeth Madva. Her lawyers in that case are Andrew Meyer Jr., Rosemary Scapicchio and Bill Thompson. Scapicchio said of it: "We plan on holding each and every doctor and each and every hospital responsible." Reported by boston.com.
2026-09-10 12:29 p.m.Reddington has filed the motion. In papers entered in Plymouth Superior Court on Thursday he asks Sullivan to enter a finding of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility on each of the three indictments. It is a renewal, under Rule 25, of the motions for a required finding he made when the Commonwealth rested and again at the close of all the evidence, and it is to be heard at the September 29 hearing. Reported by NBC10 Boston (Kaitlin McKinley Becker), by CT Insider's Lisa Backus in an account timed 12:29 p.m., and by CBS Boston. WBUR's Deborah Becker reported the filing at 5:17 p.m. the same day.
2026-09-10 12:29 p.m.The argument in the motion is about the expert evidence. All six forensic experts who testified, three called by each side, agreed that Clancy was seriously mentally ill on January 24, 2023, and the Commonwealth's rebuttal experts took issue with the diagnostic labels rather than with the illness itself. On that record, the motion says, there was nothing from which a juror earnestly seeking the truth could find each element of the offenses proved. NBC10 Boston quotes the papers: "No rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when the Commonwealth's own proof established that she did."
2026-09-10 12:29 p.m.The motion also sets out what it says would follow. A finding entered under Rule 25 is an acquittal, so it would bar a second trial, and the rule exists so that a case the evidence does not support is not tried twice. That is a separate line from the motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds that Reddington told reporters on September 9 he would bring at the same hearing. Reported by NBC10 Boston.
2026-09-10 12:29 p.m.The papers recite the deliberations as the defense understands them: seven days of them, eleven jurors prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility and one who was not, and a note from the foreperson saying the holdout had acknowledged doubt but was refusing to apply it to the case as the law states. They also recite the defense's petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court to have the juror's conduct looked into, which a single justice denied the same day, after which the mistrial was declared. Reported by NBC10 Boston, and by CT Insider, which gives the deliberations as about 38 hours over seven days.
2026-09-10 11:58 a.m.Boston.com carried Dargie's account under Abby Patkin's byline and added one thing to it. Dargie said he asked the holdout several times to point to a piece of evidence, or to something a witness had said, that supported the position he was taking, and that the man could not do it.
2026-09-10 10:31 a.m.Newsweek took the proposal up two days later and measured it against the standard it would narrow. Nothing has been filed and no bill carries a number, and Fuller has not said when one will. The federal test, 18 U.S.C. section 17, already puts the burden on the defendant to show by clear and convincing evidence that a severe mental disease or defect left them unable to appreciate the nature or the wrongfulness of the act; Massachusetts, where Clancy was tried, applies its own test of criminal responsibility. Kay Levine, a law professor at Emory University, told Newsweek the announcement reads to her as grandstanding, because insanity claims almost never succeed, and said scholars have treated the availability of the defense as a question of due process. Newsweek, at 10:31 a.m.
2026-09-10 10:00 a.m.NBC10 Boston wrote up the Good Morning America interview after it aired. Dargie, a military veteran who was serving overseas when the children were killed, said the panel was left feeling defeated: seven weeks of their lives had gone into the trial and it ended without a decision. Several jurors leaned toward guilt early on, he said, and the room came together once the evidence had been laid out in front of everyone -- everyone but one.
2026-09-10 10:00 a.m.Dargie described the holdout as often disengaged, scrolling on his phone while other jurors were talking to him. What frustrated him most, he said, was hearing the man say outright that he did not know whether the prosecution or the defense had proved its case, and vote to convict all the same. The votes moved from day to day, Dargie said, and by the end the whole room had been brought to the same place except for that one juror. Reported by NBC10 Boston.
2026-09-10 10:00 a.m.One moment in the jury room has stayed with him. The holdout, Dargie said, took one of the exercise bands out of its bag, tied it around an empty water bottle and pulled. Dargie said he was shocked, that it made no sense to him, and that he asked the man what he was doing: the jury was not there to play detective, and "it's not a game of Clue. This is serious." Reported by NBC10 Boston and, in an account by Rebecca Cohen timed 10:26 a.m., by NBC News.
2026-09-10 10:00 a.m.Like the jurors who spoke earlier in the week, Dargie named Patrick Clancy's 911 call as the hardest thing he heard. He had never heard a scream like it, he said, and will not forget it. He was asked about the claims circulating online that Patrick Clancy was responsible for the deaths and said he does not believe them -- and that anyone who heard the 911 call would change their mind. Reported by NBC10 Boston.
2026-09-10 10:00 a.m.Asked about a second trial, Dargie said he expects it would end the way the first one nearly did. If the case were tried again the same way, he told NBC10 Boston, nine juries out of ten would return not guilty by reason of insanity, and he said he had no doubt about it. Cruz has still not said whether he will retry the case or when he will decide.
2026-09-10 8:47 a.m.Boston 25 reported on Thursday morning that Reddington had also taken the double jeopardy argument to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360"; the station did not say which evening he appeared. In its account he tied the motion to what the other jurors have said since the trial, which on his reading shows the holdout did not follow the judge's instructions, and he pushed back at the idea that a woman in a psychotic state cannot function. Postpartum psychosis, he said, does not stop a person from talking with people, using the telephone, driving a car or using Google, and Clancy is well aware both of the loss of her children and of the circumstances of the psychosis. He said she remains under round-the-clock supervision at Tewksbury. Boston 25, under Frank O'Laughlin, 8:47 a.m.
2026-09-10 6:00 a.m.Reddington told Fox News's Bryan Llenas, in his first interview with that network since the jury deadlocked, what he wants for his client if the case goes on: not prison. He said he would not in a million years have her sent to the state prison at Framingham, and that what he would look for instead is probation with psychiatric treatment ordered in a secure facility. He repeated that he will challenge a second trial on double jeopardy grounds, that the route he hopes Cruz takes is a reduction to murder in the second degree, and that he would then have the case tried by a judge rather than a jury.
2026-09-10 6:00 a.m.In the same interview Reddington took back something else he had said about the district attorney after the mistrial. He had accused Cruz of not knowing the names of the three children; he had no right to do that, he told Fox News, and he regrets it. He also went over his boast that he had crushed Cruz at trial, as he had two days earlier, saying he probably should have picked different words and should have said only that he thought the defense had put on the stronger case and that the burden of proof lay with the Commonwealth.
2026-09-10 5:30 a.m.CNN went at the question of a negotiated end to the case and reported that none of the routes open is straightforward. Reddington said he wants to hear what Cruz has to say and hopes he will revisit his position now that the trial is over, but repeated that he would not agree to any resolution that had Clancy serving time in jail: what she needs, he said, is to be treated for her mental health condition, with good physicians and good medication. Cruz has still not said whether he will retry her, and has repeated that a charge of murder in the first degree was warranted and appropriate. Reported by CNN, under Nicki Brown's byline, in an account timed 5:30 a.m.
2026-09-10 5:30 a.m.On the mechanics, CNN reported that an ordinary plea ends in a sentence of imprisonment or probation and not in a hospital placement, so the one route that would keep Clancy in psychiatric care is for both sides to agree that she is not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility and for Sullivan to accept it, which would begin the process of having her committed. Carol Erskine, a former Massachusetts juvenile court judge, told CNN that outcome is highly unlikely, because it is the very thing the Commonwealth has been contesting all along. Reported by CNN.
2026-09-10 5:30 a.m.CNN also put the retrial decision to lawyers with no part in the case. Janice Bassil, a Massachusetts defense lawyer, said the district attorney holds all the cards and that she does not see him compromising. Elyse Hershon, a Boston defense lawyer, said she does not see Cruz backing off the position he has taken, and that a plea to manslaughter would be "a big walk down for the district attorney." Daniel Medwed, who teaches law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law, said the family's wishes, the politics and the cost of a second trial ought to come second to whether justice would be served, and that a prosecutor who doubts a conviction is achievable at trial may start to think about lesser charges. Reported by CNN.
2026-09-10 12:46 a.m.NBC10 Boston reported overnight that Cruz has a second decision about a parental murder prosecution to make at almost the moment he decides what to do about Clancy. The Supreme Judicial Court last month vacated the conviction of Latarsha Sanders, a Brockton mother sentenced in December 2022 to two life terms without parole in the killings of her two young sons, and the court's order reached the docket at Plymouth Superior Court on Tuesday. That set running the twelve months the district attorney's office has to decide whether to try Sanders again on murder in the first degree or to proceed on reduced charges. The office has said it is reviewing the opinion and working out its next steps.
2026-09-10 12:46 a.m.The same report set the two prosecutions beside each other. Sullivan was the trial judge in both, both mothers were charged in Plymouth County with killing their own children, and both defended on criminal responsibility. Where they parted was the psychiatric record: Sanders's mental health records were kept from her jury, while Clancy's were at the center of hers. The SJC was unanimous, and Justice Frank M. Gaziano wrote that "the exclusion of the defendant's relevant medical records relating to the diagnoses or treatment of mental illness constituted prejudicial error," so that Sanders is entitled to a new trial. NBC10 Boston's own view is that the district attorney's office may face pressure to treat the two cases the same way.
2026-09-10The Boston Globe carried the same interview under Bryan Hecht's byline and placed Dargie on the panel: he sat as juror No. 10, and came to the case knowing nothing about it, having been overseas with the military when the children were killed. He said the jury's count moved from one day to the next, and that as the evidence was laid out in front of them most of the panel came round to not guilty by reason of insanity. The Globe gives no hour for the piece.
2026-09-10The Boston Globe turned to a part of the case the criminal trial left untouched: the two medical malpractice suits the Clancys filed in January, and what a deadlocked jury does to them. Sarah Rahal reported that neither suit is resolved or stopped by the mistrial. Patrick Clancy's, brought on January 20 for himself and for the estates of Cora, Dawson and Callan, is pending in Norfolk Superior Court with a first hearing set for October 28. It names Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health Inc. and South Shore Health System, and puts the killings down to negligent treatment of Clancy and to the providers never grasping how far her mental health had fallen.
2026-09-10Lindsay Clancy's own suit, filed within days of her former husband's, names the same providers and adds McLean Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Her claim is that they did not identify bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and that the medication she was given made her worse. Nothing has been scheduled in it, and Leonard Kesten -- a longtime Boston trial lawyer in civil practice, with no part in either case -- told the Globe nothing will be until the criminal case is finished. Civil and criminal cases over the same events run alongside each other often enough, he said, and the mistrial's likely effect on these is delay rather than anything more than that.
2026-09-10Both malpractice suits have been specially assigned to one judge, Michael Doolin. Kesten told the Globe that is unremarkable where two suits rest on the same allegations, and that a single judge hearing both of them does not mean the two are to be heard together.
2026-09-10Clancy's lawyers in the malpractice case told the Globe the mistrial changes nothing on their side of it. Andrew Meyer Jr. of Lubin & Meyer, her lead lawyer there, said the criminal case and the civil one are separate proceedings involving different parties. Rosemary Scapicchio, who also acts for her in that suit and who spoke to reporters outside court on the day the mistrial was declared, said the civil case will follow the same course whether or not the criminal case had reached a resolution.
2026-09-10The Boston Globe recorded the mistrial being invoked in another Massachusetts case. At a hearing in Dedham District Court on Thursday morning, Joseph Krowski Jr., who acts for Janette MacAusland -- charged with killing her two children, Ella and Kai, at their home in Wellesley in April -- pressed the district attorney's office there to take a different approach where a mother's mental illness is at issue. "There's been a discussion, a discourse opened up in this country about whether or not we want to criminalize mental illness," he said, adding that his client is "not Lindsay Clancy 2.0." MacAusland is due back in court on October 29. Reported by the Boston Globe, under Camilo Fonseca's byline.
2026-09-10The Boston Globe's account of the renewed motion set out how far it has to reach. A motion of this kind asks the judge to look at the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the Globe reported, and is rarely granted. The papers put it that no "rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when the Commonwealth's own proof established that she did." Prosecutors had filed nothing in answer to it by Thursday afternoon. Reported by the Boston Globe, under Travis Andersen's byline.
2026-09-10 MorningThe Boston Globe opened Thursday by putting its trial reporters in front of readers' questions and answering them on the record through the morning. On how a second trial could be run: only a jury can convict on murder in the first degree, so charging that again would mean seating a new one, while a lesser charge -- murder in the second degree or manslaughter -- would let Clancy give up her right to a jury and leave the case to Sullivan alone. Prosecutors dropped three strangulation counts before the first trial, and adding a new felony such as child abuse would mean going back to a grand jury for an indictment. Boston Globe, in a reader session published at 5:00 a.m.
2026-09-10 MorningAsked whether a second jury could be found in a county saturated with the case, the Globe said the test is not that jurors hold no opinions but that they stand indifferent between the parties, and quoted Supreme Judicial Court rulings by Chief Justices Ralph Gants and Paul Liacos to that effect. The tools open to Sullivan, it said, are closer questioning about what a prospective juror already knows of the first trial and what they think about mental illness, moving the trial to another county, or summoning far more people than usual: a thousand were called for Karen Read's second trial in Norfolk Superior Court. Boston Globe, in the same session.
2026-09-10 MorningAsked what can be done about the holdout, the Globe's reporters said nobody has moved to do anything. Sullivan had questioned each deliberating juror at sidebar once the foreperson raised her concern, and found this one fit to keep deliberating and able to follow the law. What his fellow jurors have said since -- that he conceded a reasonable doubt and still would not vote to acquit -- does not amount to clear evidence of misconduct, and judges are reluctant to reach into a jury room without a showing of tampering or of bias concealed at empanelment. Karen Read's lawyers tried after her first trial, and her appeal failed. Boston Globe, in the same session.
2026-09-10 MorningOn where the mistrial leaves Clancy: she is still held without bail on three pending murder counts, so the deadlock opens no route out, and she remains in treatment at the state-run Tewksbury Hospital. Were the providers there to decide she no longer needed their care, the Globe said, she would be turned over to the custody of the Plymouth sheriff's department. On either ending -- a conviction or a finding of lack of criminal responsibility -- a judge would be likely to commit her to a hospital for further treatment, and people found not criminally responsible for a killing commonly spend decades in state psychiatric care, some of them the rest of their lives. Boston Globe, in the same session.
2026-09-10 MorningThe Globe also gave a measure of the case's effect outside the courtroom. Postpartum Support International has reported that calls to its Massachusetts helpline rose by about half after the trial began. A bill on Beacon Hill that would require a mental health evaluation for anyone charged with a crime within a year of giving birth, and let postpartum depression or psychosis bear on how the case is handled, did not advance this session, and its advocates intend to file it again. The paper said it knew of no statewide education campaign begun because of the case. Boston Globe, in the same session.
2026-09-10Reddington answered the senator six days later, in a statement his spokesman Dan Nardo released on Thursday and which was posted on X. He called the remarks despicable and dismissed them as rage bait. To call a woman who had asked for help over and over in the depths of postpartum depression, mania and psychosis a monster was reprehensible, he said, and Cruz did not come close to understanding what postpartum psychosis is, or the condition of medical and psychiatric care in this country. Instead of a rational observation, Reddington said, the senator had called for her execution. He closed with an invitation: any time Cruz wished to debate a question of that importance to the country, he knew where to find him. The rage-bait line was aimed at a particular part of what the senator had said: his remarks about the jury, which Reddington called ignorant. Reported by boston.com, under Abby Patkin's byline, on Friday at 9:14 a.m., by CT Insider, under Peter Yankowski's byline, and by the Boston Globe, under Kaitlin Lewis's byline, on Friday at 11:52 a.m.
2026-09-09 8:16 p.m.A fifth juror broke his silence, and the first man among the twelve to do so. Nick Dargie, 25, sat down with ABC News's Aaron Katersky on Wednesday for an interview the network trailed on Wednesday evening and put out on Good Morning America on Thursday morning. His account of the deadlock turns on what the holdout could not produce: Dargie said he asked him more than once to point to a piece of evidence, or to a witness, that supported the position he was taking, and that he could not do it. That, Dargie said, is why the note went to Sullivan. Reported by ABC News.
2026-09-09 8:16 p.m.Dargie was careful to separate a juror who disagrees from a juror who will not explain himself. There is nothing wrong with holding a completely opposite opinion, he told ABC News: that is a hung jury, and that is the justice system working. What he objected to was that no evidence and no testimony was ever offered for the view being held. Reported by ABC News.
2026-09-09 2:39 p.m.Reddington gave NBC News's Laura Jarrett a fuller account of his client's condition than he had given CBS earlier in the day. She is not very good, he said, and is kept on a one-to-one suicide watch around the clock at Tewksbury. He worries about her every day, he said, though her family has stayed close to her. She talks about the children constantly, repeating that she wants her babies. He put the killings down to postpartum psychosis together with the medications she had been prescribed. Reported by NBC News and NBC10 Boston.
2026-09-09 2:39 p.m.In the same interview Reddington said Clancy herself rejects what has been said online about her former husband. She certainly does not agree with it, he said, and he described their relationship as a strong one. Patrick Clancy has been set upon, he said, and his life turned into a nightmare he does not deserve. Reported by NBC News and NBC10 Boston.
2026-09-09 12:36 p.m.Reddington spoke up for Patrick Clancy in the same interview, more sharply than the day before, when he had said only that his client was Lindsay Clancy and no one else. What Patrick Clancy has been through is horrific, he said; he is entitled to move on with his life and to be left alone by the speculation and the conspiracy allegations, and the fact that he has moved on and still stands with Lindsay Clancy on the legal issues tells its own story. Of the 911 call Patrick Clancy made that night, Reddington said: "The gut-wrenching horror that is in his voice, no actor in California could ever imitate that." Reported by boston.com, under Abby Patkin's byline, at midday.
2026-09-09 9:27 a.m.NBC10 Boston published a written account of the juror interview in the morning, and Sue O'Connell's summary of it corrects a common reading of the deadlock: the panel did not begin at 11-1, and did not begin by taking a vote at all. It split in different ways across the three charges it had to consider -- murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, and manslaughter. The jurors said they sent the judge three notes reporting they could not reach a unanimous decision, and that Carlson sent a further note of her own about a juror who would not follow the court's instruction on reasonable doubt. O'Connell described a panel that organized the evidence, asked questions and argued with each other, and that came out of it feeling it had failed.
2026-09-09 9:27 a.m.Carlson named the evidence that settled it for her: Clancy's journals, and the testimony of her former mother-in-law, who called her a nurturing and loving mother. The question in front of the jury was never whether she killed the children, Carlson said, because she admitted that; it was whether she knew right from wrong at the time. Everything in the case pointed to how much she loved them, and to Carlson that was proof she had snapped and had not known what she was doing.
2026-09-09 9:27 a.m.The jury played Patrick Clancy's 911 call again inside the deliberation room, Farina said, and the jurors cried. It is something she will never not hear if she thinks about it, she said. Carlson said it was horrible and that it made her feel sick.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.Reddington told CBS Mornings he will ask Sullivan on September 29 to throw the case out rather than set it down for a second trial. The motion will be made on double jeopardy grounds, he said, on the argument that there was no manifest necessity for the mistrial. A judge has to have manifest necessity to discharge a jury, he said, for reasons that include the time the jurors, the court, its staff, the defendant and the prosecution all put into the trial. On September 4, NBC Boston reported that the hearing would take up a different motion, under Rule 25(b)(2), asking Sullivan to enter a required finding of not guilty.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.In the same interview Reddington drew a line between a juror who holds out and one who will not follow the law. He would defend anybody's right to hold out for a month, he said, because that is what the system is for. What angered him was that the foreperson's note said plainly that the juror had reasonable doubt -- as the jurors have since confirmed publicly -- and that he then refused to follow the judge's instruction on the law. Reported by CBS News.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.Asked how his client is, Reddington said she is not well. She is disappointed and sad, he said, and carries the same affect she has had for three and a half years. He said she is receiving psychiatric and medical care at Tewksbury and called the treatment good. Reported by CBS News.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.Reddington also faulted the bench for how the holdout was handled. Sullivan, he told CBS Mornings, should have put further questions to the juror about whether he was able to keep to the oath he had taken. Reported by CBS News.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.Asked in the same interview about ending the case by agreement, Reddington said the route open to Cruz is to reduce the charges to murder in the second degree, and repeated that he would not agree to anything that had Clancy serving a day in jail. Reported by CBS News. He made the same point to WBZ-TV the day before, when CBS Boston noted in its own voice that second-degree murder is the charge that would give Clancy the choice of a trial before a judge.
2026-09-09 9:23 a.m.CBS News put the planned motion to its own legal contributor, Caroline Polisi, who called it significant but a long shot. A hung jury is ordinarily followed by a second trial rather than a dismissal, she said, and if Sullivan were to allow the motion Clancy would go free. Reported by CBS News.
2026-09-09 8:43 a.m.The Associated Press, under Jessica Hill's byline, also carried the juror accounts, and boston.com published them in the morning. Carlson gave the fullest version of the verdict slips: there were three to fill out, she wrote her signature on each one, and only then did the holdout say he still would not find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. Farina called Patrick Clancy's 911 call the most horrific thing she heard. Devlin described the holdout as arrogant and said he dismissed what the rest of them told him. He has not publicly explained his position, and no outlet has named him.
2026-09-09 7:23 a.m.The New York Times, under Maia Spoto's byline, carried the jurors' account nationally, with more from Farina on how the two sides came across from the box. She called the prosecution harsh and the defense compassionate, and said the Commonwealth put on a great many medical experts but nobody who said Clancy had been a bad mother, which weighed with the jury. Devlin said the holdout brushed aside what the nurses on the panel told him about the medical evidence. Everything proved she loved her children, one of them said, so she had to have snapped.
2026-09-09WBUR asked lawyers with no part in the case what a second trial would take, and both told Deborah Becker that seating a jury would be the hard part of it. Jack Lu, a retired judge who teaches at Boston College Law School, said selection would be more intense than the first time and might run twice as long, and put the reason down to social media, which he said "seems to really have grabbed hold of this case." He does not accept the defense's account of the mistrial as an injustice, and described it instead as the system doing what it is meant to do. Keith Halpern, a defense attorney, expected candidates to be questioned closely about what they do on social media, and said a second jury would again hear Clancy described as a devoted mother who had gone looking for help. He does not believe twelve people will ever convict her of murder, and called the Commonwealth's case "probably the most inept prosecution of a significant case." Both spoke as outside observers, and neither has any role in the proceeding. WBUR reports that Cruz has still not said whether he will retry Clancy, on these charges or on lesser ones.
2026-09-08 6:27 p.m.A Sinclair station report the same day made the limit of the proposal plain: Clancy was charged under Massachusetts law, not federal law, so a federal bill would have changed nothing about her trial. Two Tennessee lawyers were quoted against the idea. Bill Speek, a defense attorney in Chattanooga, called it foolish and read it as the work of someone who has not tried cases. Jad Johnston, a public defender, made the point that an insanity acquittal is not a release: a defendant found not guilty on that ground is committed to a state psychiatric hospital. WJLA and other Sinclair stations, September 8 at 6:27 p.m.
2026-09-08 6:04 p.m.A fourth juror spoke, separately and to a different station. A woman who sat as juror No. 5 talked to WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex on condition that she not be named, and said the case never resolved for her: "At the end of the day, there was so much doubt." The Commonwealth, she said, had no figurative smoking gun, and there was no moment in the case where she could say she was certain either that Clancy did it or that she did not. Neither report makes clear whether she is one of the three women who spoke to NBC10 Boston earlier in the afternoon.
2026-09-08 6:04 p.m.Juror No. 5 declined to lay the deadlock on one man. The majority were firm in their positions from the beginning whichever side they were on, she said, and the holdout was not the only juror unwilling to see it another way; there were big personalities in that room, and what it came down to was an inability to move past your own convictions. Where she did fault him was on the law: if you acknowledge that reasonable doubt is there, she said, you cannot morally or legally convict, and a jury is there to give a defendant a fair trial by her peers. She did not think Clancy got that with him on the panel, not because he thought her guilty but because he could not back it up with any logic.
2026-09-08 6:04 p.m.Juror No. 5 also said she had gone into deliberations thinking Clancy was guilty and criminally responsible, and that in a certain way she may still think it, while describing a woman who was not mentally healthy and was so deep in a mental health crisis that she could not see her way out of it.
2026-09-08 6:04 p.m.The hardest thing she heard, juror No. 5 said, was Patrick Clancy's 911 call, played to the jury but never broadcast: "I will never be the same after that 911 call." She said she had since seen the online claims that Patrick was responsible and had convinced his wife otherwise, and that anyone who had heard that "visceral, blood-curdling scream" could not believe them -- she could not name an actor who could have performed it. To imagine living through it, and being the one to find the children, she said, shakes you.
2026-09-08 4:39 p.m.CNN carried the NBC10 Boston interview under Nicki Brown's byline, with more from the two jurors who sat alongside the foreperson. One said the holdout could not get past that Clancy had killed her children, and that the panel kept turning him back to the judge's instruction on reasonable doubt; in their frustration, she said, jurors would get up and walk the room because they could not sit any longer. The other said he waved off what fellow jurors -- nurses among them -- told him about the toxicology evidence. "He was very arrogant," she said. "He really did not take anything that anybody said." CNN put the panel at nine women and three men.
2026-09-08 4:06 p.m.Three of the jurors, all women, sat down with NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell, and the station published the interview in the afternoon. It names them, and they spoke on the record: Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade teacher, who served as foreperson; Kellie Farina, a chef; and Paula Devlin, who works for a defense contractor. Carlson, whose note out of the jury room during deliberations had told the court that a juror was conceding reasonable doubt and would still not join a verdict, described the moment he conceded it: "He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited." He then added, she said, "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity." All three described a holdout who would not listen to the rest of them, and the station says it has tried to reach him. The interview ran more than an hour, and the three described a jury room loud enough that the six alternates could hear the arguing and took it for fighting; they were set on reaching a verdict all the same. Reported by NBC Boston, and carried by NBC News later in the afternoon.
2026-09-08 3:37 p.m.Governor Healey, asked on Tuesday whether she would pardon Clancy, said the question is not hers to reach. Clemency in Massachusetts attaches to a conviction and there is none here: "I don't have the authority to pardon" without one, she said, and "I don't have authority to consider anything." The Globe set the answer against her own record, which is an unusually active one -- more than two dozen pardons since she took office, thirteen of them in her first year, and a blanket pardon in 2024 covering simple marijuana possession, but no commutation in nearly four years in office. A pardon or a commutation also needs the approval of the Governor's Council, and applicants are vetted first by an advisory board drawn from the Parole Board. Boston Globe, under Samantha J. Gross's byline, at 3:37 p.m.
2026-09-08 3:37 p.m.A spokesperson for Michael Minogue, the Republican candidate for governor, was asked the same question and gave the same answer as the sitting governor, that the power does not exist without a conviction. "Simple no from us," Elizabeth Hopkins wrote to the Globe. Boston Globe, at 3:37 p.m.
2026-09-08 12:00 p.m.Shortly after the Good Morning America appearance, Reddington sat with WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex and was asked why he had appealed to a president who has no power over a state prosecution. He said the goal was simply to seek help: if Trump thought the case warranted that kind of intervention then, federal case or not, he "certainly has an awful lot of clout," and were he to reach out to Cruz -- both men are Republicans -- Cruz might listen and consider it. Any help at all, he said, would be helpful. CBS Boston published the account at midday and updated it in the evening.
2026-09-08 12:00 p.m.The Plymouth County district attorney's office, asked by WBZ-TV to react to the pardon appeal, declined: "We have no comment on Reddington's comments," a spokesperson said. It is the office's first response to the appeal, and Cruz has still not said whether he will retry the case.
2026-09-08 12:00 p.m.In the same WBZ-TV interview Reddington ruled out any negotiated outcome that put his client behind bars. Asked whether he would consider a plea, he said, "I would not plead Lindsay Clancy to a day in jail," that she does not deserve jail because she was sick, and that he could not live with himself if she served one. CBS Boston noted that no plea is available on the charges as they stand -- murder in the first degree in Massachusetts carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole and must be tried to a jury -- and that Cruz could instead go forward on second-degree murder, which would let Clancy choose to be tried by a judge.
2026-09-08 MorningReddington went on Good Morning America and appealed to President Trump directly, asking him to weigh the kind of person Clancy is and what she has been through and "consider a pardon." NBC Boston reported that the appeal has nowhere to go: the president's clemency power reaches federal charges only, and the three murder counts against Clancy were brought under Massachusetts law. CNN made the same point and added that on a state charge the clemency power belongs to the governor of Massachusetts, and that Clancy has been convicted of nothing to be pardoned from. Reported by ABC, NBC Boston, WJAR, CNN, the Boston Globe and boston.com.
2026-09-08 MorningIn the same interview Reddington said he would take a call from Cruz about ending the case without a second trial. He said he has known the district attorney for thirty years, is "willing to listen" to him, and hopes that after sitting through six or seven weeks of evidence from both sides Cruz will revisit the charges so the two can "work something out." Cruz has still not said whether he will retry the case. Reported by NBC Boston.
2026-09-08 MorningReddington also took back his own language from the day the mistrial was declared, when he had said outside court that he crushed Cruz. He called that bravado, spoken after the fact with emotions high at the end of a six- or seven-week trial, and said that on reflection he could have been more circumspect and claimed only that he had done a good job. He maintained that the defense case had been a strong one. Reported by NBC.
2026-09-08 MorningAsked to respond to the pardon appeal, the White House offered nothing new and referred back to what the president had already said about the case on Friday, when he told reporters he had been following it. Boston 25, which put the same question, quoted a White House spokesperson's answer in full: this is a state case, and presidential pardons apply only to federal convictions; the spokesperson also pointed the station back to the president's Friday remarks. The station's account, which also carried Boston lawyer Peter Elikann's explanation that a president can pardon only federal crimes, said it had asked the district attorney's office when a decision on a retrial would come. Reported by NBC News; Boston 25, under Bob Ward, 3:59 p.m.
2026-09-08 MorningHoward Cooper, a lawyer for Patrick Clancy, issued a statement on behalf of Clancy and his family aimed at people who have claimed online that Patrick had a hand in his children's deaths. Cooper described months of what he called a relentless and escalating defamation campaign run by "minor celebrities, so-called influencers, and outright conspiracy theorists," said "enough is enough," and warned that "there will be consequences" and that every appropriate measure, including legal ones, would be used to hold those responsible to account. The statement said the claims have produced "real life threats to his reputation, livelihood, and life," and that they have not slackened since the mistrial. He said law enforcement had been notified. Patrick Clancy did not speak himself; the statement was released through Cooper and a publicist. Reported by the Boston Globe, CBS Boston, WBUR and boston.com, none of which gives the hour the statement was released; Boston 25 carried it in a piece published at 7:27 a.m., which puts its release no later than that.
2026-09-08 MorningReddington, asked about the online claims against Patrick Clancy, kept his distance from them. He said he had already said what he wanted to say on the subject during the trial, and that his client is Lindsay Clancy and no one else. The Boston Globe, which reported the remark, noted that Patrick Clancy has since remarried and moved to New York City; WBUR put the move only as out of Massachusetts. He was the first witness the Commonwealth called at the trial.
2026-09-08The Boston Globe wrote up the NBC10 Boston interview and put a piece of evidence behind the holdout's concession: it was after the panel watched the videotaped interview the Commonwealth's forensic psychologist had conducted with Clancy, Carlson said, that he allowed he had reasonable doubt. She had signed all three verdict slips before he took it back. Devlin said the jurors went at the legal definition of reasonable doubt with him again and again, highlighting it and reading it back, and that he would not engage with them. Reached at their homes afterward by the Globe, Carlson and Farina would not add anything to what they had said on television.
2026-09-08Reddington told the Boston Globe he would like to thank the jurors for the time and effort they put in, but would not want to get into their deliberations. He also described what has come to his own door since the mistrial: exercise bands taken to his house -- the exercise bands were the means of the killings, and were in evidence at the trial -- and what he called nasty, vile voice messages left on his phone.
2026-09-08A member of Congress said the mistrial had persuaded him to go after the insanity defense. Clay Fuller, a Republican who represents a Georgia district, wrote on Facebook that he is introducing federal legislation to limit the defense in federal crimes, and put his reasoning in two sentences: "Mental illness is not a get out jail free card. Lindsay Clancy is a monster." Local 3 News in Chattanooga, which covers Fuller, reported the post and set it beside the deadlock that prompted it, eleven jurors for a finding of lack of criminal responsibility and one against. Local 3 News, September 8.
2026-09-04 6:56 p.m.Clancy went back to Tewksbury Hospital after the mistrial, to the same custody she has been held in since February 2023. CBS Boston described the place she is held: a 370-bed hospital run by the state Department of Public Health, with doctors on site, nursing around the clock, rehabilitation, psychology and social services and its own dialysis clinic. Dr. Avram Mack, the psychiatrist the Commonwealth called at trial, had testified that she told him she was not much interested in the physical therapy there, or in the food.
2026-09-04 6:56 p.m.In the same report CBS Boston's I-Team set out the hospital's record of violence, drawn from its own reporting on the facility: a nurse who was choked in 2021, a stabbing in 2024, and attacks on staff in April of this year in which a pregnant employee was hit with a chair. Police have been called to the hospital thousands of times over the years. The state took nonlethal security equipment away from staff there and put it back after they objected.
2026-09-04 5:22 p.m.Governor Maura Healey, asked about the mistrial, answered about the children rather than the jury. She said the case was "about the death of three innocent, beautiful little beings," that she continues to "mourn for them and for all impacted by this," and that the situation was horrific and tragic. She added that the trial had at least given people some understanding of maternal health and of postpartum illness. Reported by CBS Boston.
2026-09-04 3:37 p.m.Sullivan set the September 29 hearing for 9 a.m., to cover both a retrial date and Reddington's Rule 25(b)(2) motion for a required finding of not guilty, which must be filed within five days of the jury's dismissal. Sullivan said he'd rather try the case "sooner rather than later" and floated late fall as a rough window, while Cruz said only that he would decide on a retrial "shortly."
2026-09-04Postpartum Support International, a national nonprofit for perinatal mental health with no part in the case, called for changes in the law the day the mistrial was declared. It said it was "disappointed but not surprised" that the jury could not reach a verdict, and that "the United States continues to prosecute mothers for the consequences of a severe, poorly understood, temporary, and treatable mental health condition related to childbirth." It pointed to more than two dozen countries, England, Canada and Australia among them, whose infanticide laws let a mother's mental state in the year after a birth bear on whether she is criminally responsible. Untreated postpartum psychosis, it said, carries a documented infanticide risk of roughly 1 to 4 percent. The organization said it would keep pressing for education, for emergency perinatal psychiatric care, and for laws in every state that treat these mothers as patients.
2026-09-04Sullivan ordered the jurors' names withheld from public release until September 18, unless he directs otherwise for good cause. He wrote that the case had drawn significant and divisive attention in Massachusetts, nationally and internationally, that the trial had been carried live on local and national channels, and that social media posts had raised issues about how people might react to a verdict; he also pointed to the woman charged with recording jurors as they left the courthouse. The order leaves any juror free to come forward and to speak publicly about serving. The Boston Globe, which reported the order on Tuesday, does not say who sought it or whether anyone did.
2026-09-04A lawyer for the Boston Globe asked the court to open up the questioning of jurors -- by the bench, by the Commonwealth and by the defense -- to the public. Jurors were questioned at sidebar during empanelment, and again during deliberations after the foreperson reported that one juror was declining to follow the law while expressing some doubt about Clancy's criminal responsibility. The motion argues the public's right of access reaches jury selection, the trial itself and post-verdict inquiries into influences on jurors. No ruling on it has been reported. Reported by the Boston Globe, which filed it.
2026-09-04National politicians began commenting on the outcome within hours of it. President Trump, asked about the case on Friday, called it a shame, said Clancy had done a horrible thing, that a price would be paid -- "a mental institution, or jail, or something" -- and that he expected her to be tried again. boston.com took the remarks from a clip the White House posted on social media; Fox News placed them in an Oval Office gaggle. Fox also gathered criticism from Republican officeholders elsewhere, chief among them Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, who called the mistrial a miscarriage of justice and said the victims had deserved better than a "kangaroo court," and cited critical posts from Representatives Nancy Mace and Michael Rulli and Senator Mike Lee. Reported by boston.com, under Abby Patkin's byline, on September 4, and by Fox News, under Elaine Mallon's byline, on September 5 at 12:55 p.m.
2026-09-04 EveningSenator Ted Cruz of Texas -- a different Cruz from Timothy Cruz, the Plymouth district attorney deciding whether to bring the case again -- took the mistrial up the same evening on the Newsmax program Finnerty. He called the outcome infuriating and heartbreaking, described it as the intersection of ideology and lawlessness, and said it was the modern version of the O.J. Simpson trial. There was no dispute, he said, that "this monster of a mother" had murdered all three children, and he put her conduct as a deliberate, systematic strangling of one child after another. Whatever was said about her mental state, he argued, anyone who kills three children should at a minimum spend the rest of their life in prison, "if not go to death row." Newsmax, in an account published late on September 4.