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一名陪审员、三名遇害儿童、没有裁决：克兰西案审判破局
经过一周评议和四张僵局便条，马萨诸塞州一个陪审团仍无法判定产后精神病能否使林赛·克兰西免责。围绕一名坚持异议陪审员的争执，使审判在没有裁决的情况下告终。
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此案的核心仍是三个年幼的名字，而她们旁边至今没有一个裁决。2023年1月24日，科拉（5岁）、道森（3岁）和卡伦（8个月大）在达克斯伯里的家中被人用运动弹力带勒死。4 24 她们的母亲林赛·克兰西随后割腕割颈，并从二楼窗户跳下，虽幸存但导致瘫痪，如今只能坐轮椅，并在不得保释的情况下被羁押于图克斯伯里医院。24 27 此后的一切——五周的庭审作证、80多名证人、一周的陪审团评议——都围绕着那个冬日早晨展开，却始终未能在法律上确定其意义。
现年36岁、曾任产科护士的克兰西并未否认杀人行为。4 24 普利茅斯高等法院的整场审判转而围绕一个问题展开：产后精神病是否使她无需为自己的行为承担刑事责任。4 6 检方认为她是蓄意且明知而为，并称她特意让丈夫出门买药和晚餐，以便自己与孩子们独处。24 27 辩方则认为，严重的产后疾病使她无法理解自身行为的违法性。11 24 五周庭审和80多名证人始终未能厘清她案发当时的精神状态，而精神病与犯罪故意之间这条悬而未决的界线，正是导致陪审团僵持不下的原因。6 7
2026年9月4日星期五，陪审团表示无法达成一致裁决后，法官威廉·F·沙利文宣布审判无效，并于下午2:22左右解散陪审团。4 27 在历时约五周的庭审之后，陪审团评议持续了约七天，约36至40小时。21 24 据《波士顿环球报》统计，共有84名证人出庭，证物超过300件。21 24 参与评议的陪审团由九名女性和三名男性组成，另有六名候补陪审员；马萨诸塞州规定，刑事案件定罪或无罪裁决均须陪审团一致同意。24 18
四张便条，走向审判无效
终结这场审判的僵局，演变为一场围绕一名陪审员的争执。2 8 在此前两张僵局便条之后，陪审团团长于9月3日星期四又发出一张便条，称一名陪审员承认存在疑问，却拒绝将法院关于合理怀疑的指示适用于裁决。2 8 辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿向法官表示，这名陪审员实际上已经"失控"，拒绝遵守法律，并要求以候补陪审员替换此人。8 17 他公开称陪审团票数为11比1，即11名陪审员倾向无罪，一人阻挠裁决——但法院本身并未证实这一分布。29 11
法官拒绝撤换坚持异议的陪审员
沙利文法官询问了这名陪审员，并拒绝将其撤换，称根据现有记录撤换陪审员并不恰当，他也不会在评议中偏袒任何一方。8 25 沙利文给了辩方大约一小时，让其将争议提交给马萨诸塞州最高法院的一名大法官。25 26 通过Zoom审理该紧急请求的助理大法官达莉拉·阿加埃斯·温德兰特驳回了中止请求。8 26 辩方请求沙利文在星期五再次发出Tuey-Rodriguez"炸药指示"——这一标准指示告诉陪审员，他们与今后任何陪审团同样称职，应以开放的心态继续评议，但不应仅为达成一致而放弃真诚持有的信念——他予以拒绝。16 25 随后，沙利文在法庭上宣读了陪审团的最后一张便条，然后解散了陪审团。4 27
关键事实
检方的第一位证人是她的前夫帕特里克·克兰西，他已于2024年提出离婚。24 27 他描述了卡伦出生后她状况的恶化、她透露的侵入性念头，以及就在案发前他所说的她状态最好的日子之一。27 24 911报警电话录音在陪审团面前播放：她跳楼后，他在院子里发现了她，她告诉他自己曾试图自杀，随后又说孩子们在地下室。27 24 他还作证称，她告诉他，她听到一个男人的声音警告说，如果她不"现在"行动，就会"失去机会"。24 27 他曾表示已原谅她，并认为是精神疾病所致。24 7
我们怀着沉重的心情报告，我们无法作出一致的决定，今后也不可能做到。
与刑事案件并行的，是一场围绕案发前医疗护理的民事诉讼。24 2026年1月，林赛·克兰西和帕特里克·克兰西在诺福克高等法院对多家医疗服务提供者提起过失致死和医疗事故诉讼，被告包括詹妮弗·塔夫茨医生、执业护士丽贝卡·乔洛塔、Aster Mental Health和South Shore Health，指控对方在大约四个月内存在误诊、多重用药缺乏协调及监测不力等问题。24 法庭文件和新闻报道提到，从2022年9月到2023年1月，她共使用了十几种精神科药物，处方超过30张，包括左洛复、阿蒂凡、曲唑酮、百忧解、安必恩、瑞美隆、克诺平、思瑞康、安定和利必通。24 截至2026年8月下旬，这些民事案件仍在审理中。24
审判无效使刑事案件悬而未决，决定权落到了地区检察官手中。21 31 普利茅斯县地区检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹表示，他将"很快"决定是否重审，并强调一级谋杀指控是"有正当理由的"，此案关乎为科拉、道森和卡伦讨回公道——他还披露了其检察官受到威胁的情况。21 31 他的选择包括：在新陪审团面前以一级谋杀罪重审克兰西、降低指控、寻求认罪协议或撤销案件。24 鉴于克鲁兹的一贯作风，分析人士普遍预计将会重审，但辩方声称陪审团以11比1倾向无罪、第二次审判的成本以及对家庭造成的压力，都是不利于重审的因素。21 24 沙利文将情况审议会定于9月29日，并表示要"尽早"审理此案，可能在秋季进行。21 25 雷丁顿称审判无效是一场"闹剧"，并表示他的当事人"本应被判无罪"。21 24 帕特里克·克兰西的律师表示，在另一场审判中重温此案将"极其痛苦"。24
未知
- 票数分布未获证实；11比1倾向无罪仅为辩方说法。
- 关于重审、认罪协议、降低指控或撤案，尚未作出决定。
后续
- 地区检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹是否会在9月29日审议会之前决定在新陪审团面前重审。
播出原貌 18 行
- A single holdout juror left a triple-murder jury deadlocked at 11-to-1.
- The judge refused to remove that juror, and after four deadlock notes, he declared a mistrial. The question now is whether the district attorney will try Lindsay Clancy again.
- Four notes in four days. Each time the judge pushed the panel to continue, but the split never closed.
- The defense publicly described the panel as divided eleven to one for acquittal, with one juror blocking a verdict. The court itself never confirmed that split. But the defense's account is what drove the final fight over this jury.
- Those were the words that ended the trial — the jury's own admission that it could not agree. The judge read them aloud before discharging the panel.
- That deadlock came down to one juror. The foreperson told the judge that a single juror acknowledged doubt but refused to apply the court's instruction on reasonable doubt. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued the juror had gone rogue, and asked the judge to replace him with an alternate. The judge questioned the juror, then declined, saying it was not proper to remove a juror on that record, and that he would not side with one side or the other of the deliberations.
- The facts of the killings were never disputed. Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months — all strangled with exercise resistance bands. Clancy then cut her wrists and neck, and jumped from a second-story window. She survived with paralysis, now uses a wheelchair, and is held without bail at Tewksbury Hospital. The only question was whether mental illness made her not criminally responsible.
- Prosecutors argued she acted deliberately and knowingly, and that she sent her husband out to pick up medicine and dinner specifically to leave herself alone with the children. The defense countered that postpartum psychosis — a severe form of depression following childbirth — left her unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions.
- The trial itself lasted about five weeks, hearing from more than 80 witnesses. The Boston Globe counted 84 witnesses and more than 300 exhibits. Yet the central issue — her state of mind at the moment of the killings — was never resolved.
- The deliberating jury was nine women and three men, with six alternates. Massachusetts requires a unanimous criminal verdict. An 11-to-1 split is not a verdict, which is what left the case with no outcome.
- The prosecution's first witness was her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy. He filed for divorce in 2024. He described her decline after Callan's birth, the intrusive thoughts she disclosed, and what he called one of her best days right before the killings. The 911 call was played: he found her in the yard after the jump, she told him she had tried to kill herself, then said the children were in the basement. He also testified she told him she heard a man's voice warning that if she did not act now, she would lose her chance. He has said he forgives her and believes mental illness was responsible.
- Judge William Sullivan gave the defense about an hour to appeal the removal decision to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt heard the emergency request by Zoom and denied it. The mistrial then went forward.
- Some numbers are solid: the mistrial, the deliberation length, the witness count. The eleven-to-one split is the defense's characterization, and the court never confirmed it.
- After the mistrial, the defense lawyer called it a travesty and said his client deserved an acquittal. The district attorney, Timothy Cruz, said he would decide shortly whether to retry, emphasizing that the first-degree murder charges were warranted, and that the case was about getting justice for Cora, Dawson, and Callan. He also disclosed threats against his prosecutors.
- The decision now rests with District Attorney Timothy Cruz. He could retry Clancy on first-degree murder, reduce the charges, seek a plea, or drop the case. Analysts generally expect a retrial, given Cruz's record, but the defense's claim of an 11-to-1 acquittal split, the cost of a second trial, and the strain on the family all weigh against it.
- It's Massachusetts's standard instruction to break a deadlock — sometimes called the dynamite charge. The judge gave it once, after the second impasse note, and refused to give it again on Friday.
- Parallel to the criminal case, both Clancys filed wrongful-death and malpractice suits against healthcare providers in January 2026. They allege misdiagnosis, uncoordinated polypharmacy, and poor monitoring over roughly four months — more than a dozen psychiatric medications and over 30 prescriptions from September 2022 to January 2023. Named among the providers are Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health. Those civil cases were still pending as of late August. Patrick Clancy's lawyer said reliving the case in another trial would be extraordinarily painful.
- Five weeks and more than 80 witnesses never settled the only question that mattered: her state of mind in the moment. The facts were agreed. The legal line between psychosis and criminal intent was not. To her supporters, this is a story of failed postpartum care and overmedication. To the prosecution, it is the murder of three children, and they reject treating a hung jury as proof of innocence. The trial ended without an answer. Whether there is a second one now rests with the Plymouth County district attorney, and a status conference scheduled for September 29.
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