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Clancy jury deadlocks twice, gets the dynamite charge; the courthouse's only verdict is an arrest.

By SalStaff Writer

“Lindsay Clancy judge gives deadlocked jury last resort ‘Tuey-Rodriguez’ charge after they can’t reach verdict”, 2 September 2026 (Photo via New York Post — the original report)

As it ran on the front

The jury got the case last Thursday, August 27th, right after a psychiatrist walked them through what postpartum depression actually looks like when nobody intervenes for months. That's the frame the state built the whole prosecution around: three dead children, a mother who researched dosages, a system that let it get that far. By the following weekend, more than 31,000 people had put over a million dollars behind Lindsay Clancy's defense, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner decided the money itself was the scandal — not the case, the crowd. Feminism, apparently, is what's on trial now.

Then the jury did the thing juries do when the case in front of them doesn't fit the story anyone wanted: they got stuck. This past Tuesday they told Judge Sullivan they were deadlocked. He sent them back. Wednesday they told him again. This time he reached for the instruction Massachusetts judges keep in reserve for exactly this moment — the Tuey-Rodriguez charge, the one every clerk in the building calls the dynamite charge because that's what it's for, blasting a jury off the wall it's built for itself. Keep working, he told them. Try harder to agree.…

…(cont) Outside, while twelve people spent two days wrestling with whether a woman was too sick to be guilty of killing her own kids, the courthouse handled the one case it could close cleanly: someone was filming the jurors, and got arrested for it. No deadlock there. No dynamite charge needed. The system that couldn't produce a verdict in two straight days produced an arrest before the second one was even over.

Now a legal expert is on CBS explaining the odds of a mistrial, which is the tell — when the coverage moves from "what happened" to "what happens if nothing does," the case has already left the jury room and entered the actuarial tables. Nobody on television is asking why the same state that let a mother's psychosis go unaddressed for months is now asking twelve strangers to sort her mind out for her by Friday. That question isn't deadlocked. It just isn't the one anybody's paid to reach a verdict on.

“Two days straight this jury can't agree on the question that actually matters, and the one thing the courthouse gets done clean is arresting somebody for pointing a phone at it. That's not justice moving careful, that's justice picking the easy target while the hard one sits deadlocked in a room upstairs. They can close a case on a bystander in the parking lot before they can close the one on why nobody helped this woman for months.”
Sal
“You don't let people film jurors mid-deliberation, that's basic trial integrity, any prosecutor would tell you that — why am I out here defending courthouse security like it's the headline. The actual story is thirty-one thousand people raising a million dollars for a woman who, per the record, researched this before she did it, and somehow the crowd's the sympathetic one. I didn't put "researched" in quotes, the filing did.”
Chip

The receipts

Feminism should also be on trial in the Lindsay Clancy case
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