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Judge clears way for Lindsay Clancy retrial
A Massachusetts judge has rejected a motion to dismiss the murder case against Lindsay Clancy, allowing prosecutors to pursue a second trial after a jury deadlocked in September.
In brief
A Massachusetts judge has rejected a motion to dismiss the murder case against Lindsay Clancy, allowing prosecutors to pursue a second trial after a jury deadlocked in September. A Massachusetts judge denied Lindsay Clancy's motion to dismiss her murder case, clearing the way for prosecutors to pursue a retrial after…
Judge denies motion to dismiss
A Massachusetts judge has rejected Lindsay Clancy's motion to dismiss her murder case, clearing the way for prosecutors to pursue a retrial after the jury deadlocked in September.
Defence argued double jeopardy
Clancy's lawyers claimed that retrying her after a mistrial would violate double jeopardy, a legal standard preventing a person from being tried for the same crime twice.
Judge finds necessity for mistrial
Judge William Sullivan ruled that the jury deadlock created manifest necessity for the mistrial. An unreasonably stubborn juror is an unavoidable risk of the jury system, he wrote.
“an unavoidable risk of the jury system”
Second trial scheduled for March
Judge Sullivan scheduled a hearing for November sixteenth to discuss scheduling a potential second trial, which he previously suggested could begin in March.
What it means
A Massachusetts judge denied Lindsay Clancy's motion to dismiss her murder case, clearing the way for prosecutors to pursue a retrial after the jury deadlocked in September.
