Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass. Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe/Getty Images The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy has granted the request of her defense attorney to appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to seek
Under US law, the jury must unanimously reach a conclusion “beyond a reasonable doubt”. If they cannot, the judge can call a mistrial, which ends the trial with no verdict. Jurors in Clancy’s trial have been deadlocked for days, and have told the judge three times that they are unable to come to a unanimous