Judge set to declare mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after jury deadlocks
SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — A judge is set to declare a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial after the jury remained deadlocked following seven days of deliberations.
The 12-member jury, made up of nine women and three men, told Judge William Sullivan that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to convict Clancy, 36, of three counts of first-degree murder.
“It is with a heavy heart that we will not be able to come to unanimous decision,” Sullivan said Friday morning as he read the jury’s third note indicating it remained at an impasse.
After nearly five weeks of testimony from roughly 85 witnesses, Sullivan said he had no choice but to declare a mistrial without a verdict.
The judge was preparing to bring the jury into the courtroom to formally declare the mistrial when Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, made an eleventh-hour request for more time to seek an emergency stay from an appeals court.
Sullivan granted Reddington one hour to make his case for an emergency stay that would block the mistrial declaration.
The extraordinary legal maneuver represents a last-minute effort by Clancy’s defense to prevent the case from ending without a verdict.
If the emergency appeal is unsuccessful and the mistrial is declared, the jury will be dismissed without reaching a decision on the charges. The case could then potentially proceed to a new trial.