Lindsay Clancy has hired Karen Read’s former attorney in an attempt to get her murder case tossed after her case was declared a mistrial.
Attorney Martin Weinberg filed a “notice of limited appearance” with Plymouth Superior Court on Tuesday, September 15, in order to dismiss Clancy’s case on the grounds of double jeopardy, according to The Boston Globe.
Weinberg previously represented Read, 46, after her first trial ended in a mistrial. She went to trial twice after she was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. Following the July 2024 mistrial, the judge denied Weinberg’s request for Read not to face the same charges again.
A Massachusetts judge is preparing to declare a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case after jurors spent several days and more than 30 hours in deliberation. Judge William Sullivan granted Clancy’s defense, Kevin Reddington, one hour in order to seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Judicial Court on Friday, September 4, per CNN. Clancy, […]
Read went back to trial and was ultimately acquitted of the murder charge in June 2025.
Both Clancy and Read’s trials took place in Massachusetts.
Clancy, 36, was on trial after she killed her kids — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in January 2023. While she has never denied killing her kids, her defense argued she should not be held criminally responsible due to her ongoing mental health struggles.
Meanwhile, the prosecution argued that Lindsay should be found guilty and claimed she knew what she was doing when she sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, to run errands so that she could be alone with her kids to kill them.
After the jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. The prosecution has not yet shared whether they plan to take the case back to trial.
Lindsay’s defense lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has made several attempts to prevent the case from going back to trial. In addition to publicly asking President Donald Trump to grant the defendant a pardon, he recently said on CBS Mornings that he planned to file a motion to dismiss.
Additionally, Reddington shared his plans to argue that the charges should be dropped on the grounds of double jeopardy when the legal teams return to court on September 29.
Several jurors have since spoken out about the verdict, revealing that the one holdout juror admitted to having reasonable doubt despite still finding Lindsay guilty.
Patrick Clancy and his legal team are reacting to a judge’s decision to declare a mistrial in his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy’s murder case. “Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment and their perseverance,” Patrick’s attorney David Meier said in a statement to CBS News on […]
“There were several times I would ask him to show us, like, evidence or, you know, describe a witness testimony that helped to prove what he was saying, and he couldn’t,” juror Nick Dargie said about the holdout juror, who has not publicly come forward, during an interview with ABC News on September 9. “There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was, which is why we ultimately sent in that note.”
He added, “Otherwise, there’s nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion. That would be a hung jury. That is our justice system.”
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