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In a dramatic conclusion to a trial that has gripped, saddened and divided the nation, the judge declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admits to killing her three children in 2023.
The trial collapsed without a verdict after the jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours but could not reach a consensus over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the killings. The nine women and three men had twice already told the judge earlier this week they couldn’t reach a unanimous decision and had been sent back to deliberate further. But today, they came back once more, declaring that “with a heavy heart” they could not “and will not be able to” reach a consensus.
After a last-ditch appeal to the state’s highest court from the defense was denied, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. He thanked the jury, which was split 11-1, for their efforts and hard work in serving on such a difficult case, and set a status hearing for 29 September.
The Plymouth county district attorney said it would not make a decision on whether to pursue a retrial today. Tim Cruz told reporters outside the courthouse that this case was “not about the healthcare system or how women are treated in it”. The case, he said, “was and has always been about getting justice for those three little babies. We’re here at this courthouse today because those children are not.”
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace when she led the department, a scathing watchdog report released Thursday found.
At about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2023, Fraser Bohm had just picked up an order of tacos and was heading to meet friends, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY. Bohm, a college baseball prosect who lived in a $2.5 million Malibu home with his mother at the time, was driving the 2016 BMW his parents gave him shortly before they filed for divorce in 2017, court records show.
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
Let me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. But you might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven’t been widely covered by much of the US media.
Federal prosecutors have brought charges against an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for lying to investigators about a shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a major blow to Republicans.
