President Donald Trump weighed in on the Lindsay Clancy case after a judge declared a mistrial due to a hung jury.
Trump called it a “terrible situation” and a “horrible tragedy” in his first public comments on the case.
When reporters asked Trump if he was following the trial, Trump replied, per CBS News, “It’s on television so much, it’s hard not to follow it. Trump noted that another trial is possible, which he called “too bad. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the jury returned without a verdict for the third time.
The Massachusetts mother faces three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson , 3; and Callan, 8 months. Jurors in Plymouth state court spent over 38 hours in deliberations over the charges against Lindsay. The 12-person jury was made up of nine women and three men, and was split 11 to one, per the notes given to the court, The Guardian reported.
Because she was in the midst of a psychotic episode that stemmed from postpartum mental illness, her defense attorneys, on the other hand, argued that she is not criminally responsible.
Lindsay, 35, “acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly” when she fatally strangled her three children at their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, according to prosecutors.
