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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer reveals post-mistrial strategy as retrial looms
Fox News • • nation
Key Points:
- Lindsay Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, is pursuing a multifaceted strategy to prevent a retrial and incarceration, including challenging the retrial on double jeopardy grounds, seeking reduced charges, and advocating for psychiatric treatment instead of prison.
- The Norfolk Superior Court jury deadlocked after seven weeks, resulting in a mistrial; Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the deaths of her three children, and prosecutors have yet to decide on retrying the case.
- Reddington aims to have charges reduced to second-degree murder to enable a bench trial and push for probation combined with mandatory psychiatric care rather than imprisonment.
- He defended his criticism of a lone holdout juror, clarifying that his frustration was due to the juror's refusal to follow the law, not simply dissenting on the case's merits.
- Reddington also called on former President Donald Trump to intervene by urging the district attorney not to retry Clancy, while expressing regret for some of his earlier harsh remarks about the prosecutor.
