Lindsay Clancy murder trial: judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks – live updates

Jury returns to tell judge for a third time it cannot reach a verdict in case of Massachusetts woman who killed her children

The jury was sent out on Thursday afternoon to decide whether the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children – eight-month old Callan, five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson – in January 2023.

Over the past five weeks, the trial, which has been called “America’s saddest murder trial”, has renewed nationwide attention on postpartum mental healthcare. Clancy’s defense maintains that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis – a condition estimated to affect around two women per 1,000 births – and therefore should not be held criminally responsible for her actions.