Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has taken a dramatic turn after the jury said it could not reach a unanimous decision, leading Judge William Sullivan to declare a mistrial.
This came after a week of deliberations, during which the panel of nine women and three men became deadlocked multiple times and told Judge Sullivan they could not reach unanimous agreement. After this latest deadlock, Sullivan said he believed he had no choice but to declare a mistrial. After the shock decision, Judge Sullivan and Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington got into a heated exchange which left the attorney ‘whipping off’ his glasses and snapping at the judge, as per the Express .
As per The Mirror, the court reporter Kristina Rex said the filing is known as a 211 section 3 petition.
CNN legal correspondent Jean Casarez said on live television that the higher court would need to find a “very clear and egregious error on the part of this court” to grant the emergency stay. She described it as an “Emergency petition to a single justice of the state’s highest court. Asking for intervention in this case before a formal mistrial is declared. An emergency appeal is a request asking a higher court to quickly review a judge’s decision before it takes effect. In the Lindsay Clancy trial, the defense sought an emergency stay from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. This suggests that a mistrial is more likely at this point.
