MARTINEZ — A popular Bay Area rapper will have to re-do his murder trial at a to-be-determined date, after his own profanity-laced outburst became the final straw that caused a mistrial while a jury was deliberating his fate. “This s— nowhere…
The Lindsay Clancy case is back in the news as the prosecution filed paperwork that suggests they will go for a retrial over the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old. While the court documents didn’t say they want…
I shouldn’t get so angry. It isn’t healthy. Last week, New York state summoned me to jury duty. I went, of course. It’s the law, and my duty. A jury may protect the innocent from government abuse. Ordinary citizens, not…
By Shaila Dewan, New York Times Service Sixteen years ago, Marci Webber killed her 4-year-old daughter, Maggie, in the midst of a psychotic episode, then cut her own wrists. When Webber’s eldest daughter, then 18, found them in the bathroom, Webber…
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…
Posters for 14-year-old Samantha Humphrey in Schenectady’s Riverside Park. The trial for Raymond Wright Jr., Humphrey’s accused killer, continues Thursday in Schenectady County Court. SCHENECTADY — Last-minute motions by both the prosecution and defense were made Thursday in Schenectady County Court,…
Peremptory challenges based on race, national origin, religion, and class are well-known problems in modern jury selection, and have led to calls to abolish them altogether. Defenders of peremptory challenges argue that they are a fixture of the common law…
Prosecutors are urging a judge to reject Lindsay Clancy's attempt to dismiss her murder charges even as they refuse to commit to a second trial. In a new filing from the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, the prosecution argued that…
Lindsay Clancy’s attorney has denied she will testify in her ex-husband Patrick’s civil lawsuit, after his lawyers claimed she would reveal she had ‘homicidal ideation’ before strangling their three children. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington pushed back on Wednesday against claims…
The jury foreperson at Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial sent out a total of six notes before a judge was forced to declare a mistrial, new prosecution court papers revealed. The notes confirmed the panel was deadlocked for days before the…
Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with killing her three children: the insanity defence, the trial, the mistrial and what comes next.
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