Lindsay Clancy's defense denied mistrial after witness references 'mortal sin' @WMTW

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

The testimony of a second rebuttal witness was abruptly put on hold Monday afternoon after the judge said it strayed into "inappropriate" territory during the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children in the family's Duxbury home in 2023.

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