The lawyer for the Massachusetts pistillate accused of murdering her 3 children says helium hopes to scope an statement with prosecutors, aft the lawsuit ended successful a mistrial connected Friday.
Kevin Reddington told ABC's Good Morning America programme that helium was upset a lone subordinate of the assemblage would not acquit Lindsay Clancy.
To find Clancy guilty, jurors had to beryllium unanimously convinced beyond a tenable uncertainty that she intentionally killed her children - Cora, Dawson and Callan - and was not experiencing a psychotic break.
On ABC, Reddington besides appealed to President Donald Trump to pardon Clancy. Because she was charged by the state, though, lone the Massachusetts politician has the powerfulness to pardon her.
"I would anticipation that you [Trump] would see this young lady, the benignant of idiosyncratic she is, what she's been through, and see a pardon," Reddington said.
Reddington besides said helium hoped the territory lawyer prosecuting the lawsuit "would beryllium capable to enactment thing retired that would beryllium acceptable to some sides".
The BBC has contacted the territory lawyer for Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
"I'm consenting to perceive to Tim," Reddington said astir District Attorney Tim Cruz, calling him a "hard-charging prosecutor".
The assemblage - 9 women and 3 men - was weighing a scope of options, from not blameworthy by crushed of insanity to manslaughter and first-degree murder.
The 12-member sheet appeared to astir scope a consensus, but for a azygous holdout who, Reddington said, "would not use the instrumentality of tenable doubt" arsenic instructed by the judge.
"That's not right," helium said. "And that's wherefore I was upset."
Throughout the trial, prosecutors called dozens of witnesses, including respective doctors, seeking to beryllium Clancy had made a calculated determination to execution her children successful the basement of their Massachusetts location successful January 2023.
Clancy does not contradict sidesplitting the three, but says determination was nary premeditation and she was experiencing psychosis astatine the time. For her to beryllium convicted of first-degree murder, a assemblage would person to judge she planned the killings.
The BBC has contacted the governor's bureau astir a imaginable pardon request.
Under Massachusetts law, Reddington could besides formally inquire the justice to regularisation independently that Clancy was not blameworthy based connected grounds presented during the trial. He has 5 days to record that motion.
Currently, the lawsuit rests with the prosecution, who indispensable determine whether to question different trial.
With further reporting from Ione Wells
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