Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
78/100
NBC News's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
22
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Prosecutors have asked a judge to reject Lindsey Clancy’s motion to dismiss the charges against her, arguing in a motion that they have the right to seek justice on behalf of her three young children even after a mistrial was declared.
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mistrial → ask → children
“Because a mistrial was properly declared due to the manifest necessity of a deadlocked jury, the defendant’s motion to dismiss should be denied, and the Commonwealth should be permitted to continue to pursue justice for Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy,” prosecutors wrote in the motion filed Monday.
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prosecutors → declare → motion
Clancy was indicted on three counts of murder and strangulation in the 2023 deaths of her three young children and her trial took place in a Massachusetts courtroom over the summer.
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trial → indict → summer
A mistrial was declared in September when the jury told the judge it was deadlocked after seven days of deliberation — with one juror as the holdout.
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it → declare → holdout
Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan in their Duxbury home.
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Clancy → accuse → home
Her lawyers argued that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions.
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she → argue → actions
Her defense team moved to dismiss the charges against Clancy on the grounds of double jeopardy — a law that prevents defendants from being prosecuted more than once for the same crime.
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that → move → crime
Prosecutors say the standard does not apply in the Clancy case because a verdict was not reached.
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verdict → say → case
The remedy to the jurors’ stalemate should not be to dismiss the charges against Clancy, but to hold a new trial, according to the prosecution’s motion.
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remedy → dismiss → motion
The escalating legal battle centers on the holdout juror, who said he’s been harassed since the trial ended but continues to stand by his position that Clancy premeditated the murders of her children.
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Clancy → escalate → children
The other 11 jurors were prepared to acquit Clancy by the insanity standard, they have said.
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they → prepare → standard
They have claimed the holdout juror failed to follow the standard of reasonable doubt throughout deliberations.
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juror → claim → deliberations
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued throughout the trial that she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings and was therefore unaware of her actions and unable to control herself.
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she → argue → herself
The prosecution, however, argued that Clancy was not in psychosis when she killed her children, and that she planned the strangulations ahead of time.
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she → argue → time
In his response Wednesday to the prosecution’s opposition to dismiss charges against Clancy, Reddington argued that a new trial without the investigation of jury misconduct would subject his client to “successive prosecution with all of the concomitant burdens and dangers that the Supreme Judicial Court has repeatedly warned against.”
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Court → dismiss → that
“This is not the law,” Reddington’s motion reads.
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motion → read → ?
“To the contrary, it flies in the face of centuries of Double Jeopardy jurisprudence.”
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it → fly → jurisprudence
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