Trump responds to Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer’s desperate plea for a pardon

Donald Trump hopes prosecutors can ‘work something out’ with Lindsay Clancy to avoid a second trial after her lawyer begged him for a pardon.

Clancy is accused of murdering her three young children by strangling them with exercise bands at their home in in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023.

Her lawyers admitted during the trial that she killed Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 18-month-old Callan, but argued she was insane and thus not legally culpable.

After the trial ended with a hung jury on September 4, lead defense attorney Kevin Reddington repeated begged Trump to pardon Clancy, 36.

Trump on Monday correctly noted that he had no power to intervene as Clancy faced state charges, but said, ‘I hope they can work something out.’

‘It’s a very sad situation. I certainly heard that, but look, it’s very sad. There is no winner there. There’s no win no matter what you do. Three children are dead,’ he told reporters.

Trump called Reddington a ‘very good attorney’ and appeared to suggest the prosecution should offer Clancy a plea bargain.

​’I hope they can work something out. That’s something they have to work out,’ he said.

Reddington said during his desperate plea to Trump that he knew the president couldn’t actually pardon his client, but hoped he could exert influence.

‘I’d like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case,’ the lawyer said in his first appeal on Good Morning America last week.

‘Mr President, I hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon.’

Reddington asked again on CBS Boston days later, saying: ‘I think any type of help that we can get is helpful.’

‘If President Trump feels that this is a case that warrants that type of intervention from the executive branch, if you will – even though, legally, it’s not a federal case – he certainly has an awful lot of clout,’ he said.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is the one with the power to pardon Clancy, and has refused to say whether she would.

Trump could also theoretically pressure prosecutors to offer a plea deal in more pointed terms than his off-the-cuff comments on Monday.

The president already expressed his disappointment that the 12 jurors couldn’t reach a verdict and the trial would have to start all over again.

‘It’s a shame. It’s a horrible tragedy. I see what’s happened and it looks like it’s a hung jury,’ he said just after the mistrial was declared.

‘I think the judge has said it’s going to be a mistrial, so there’s going to be another trial.

‘It’s a terrible situation. Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. 

‘Can’t be worse. But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be mental institution or jail or something, but I guess they’re going to go through another trial.’

Reddington said after the trial that he was open to reaching a deal with District Attorney Tim Cruz, so that Clancy did not need to go through another trial.

‘I’m willing to listen to Tim [Cruz]. I’ve known Tim for 30 years. I hope, however, after this trial, that he would revisit that issue and we could work something out that will be acceptable for both sides,’ he added.

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Plymouth Superior Court on the afternoon of September 4 after almost a week of jury deliberation.

The mistrial was caused by a lone holdout juror who insisted Clancy was guilty, while the other 11 voted for not guilty by reason of insanity.

Notes from the jury forewoman claimed the holdout juror admitted he had reasonable doubt about Clancy’s mental competency, but refused to apply to them to his vote.

Clancy repeatedly admitted to strangling her children with exercise bands but her defense argued she should be found not guilty due to insanity.

The former nurse said she was overmedicated while suffering from postpartum depression and that the cocktail of drugs she was prescribed brought on psychosis.

She tried to kill herself by jumping out the upstairs window of the home she shared with ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, in the wake of the killings.

The suicide attempt failed but left Clancy paralyzed and permanently confined to a wheelchair.

Jurors spent more than 37 hours deliberating five-and-a-half weeks of evidence, with one refusing to side with the others late Thursday and early Friday.

Reddington sought an emergency order to try and force jurors to enter one final round of deliberations but it failed.