Lindsay Clancy trial tensions flare as judge declines to remove holdout juror - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat World Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America Middle East US & Canada Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: What it was like in court as Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asked judge to remove juror By Ana Faguy Reporting from court in Massachusetts Published 4 September 2026, 00:52 BST Updated 2 hours ago A judge has again told the deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to keep trying to reach a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations in a case that has gripped America. Tensions flared in court after the jury forewoman sent the judge a note saying one juror would not follow the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt. There was audible shock in the room when the defence team asked for the juror to be removed, a request that was denied by the judge. Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan - at her Massachusetts family home on 24 January 2023. Warning: This article contains distressing details The former labour and delivery nurse does not deny strangling her two sons and daughter in the basement of their house. But her lawyer argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and could not distinguish right from wrong. The jury of nine women and three men in Plymouth has deliberated for some 35 hours with