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Jury selection for the Lindsay Clancy trial nearly wrapped up on Wednesday, when five more jurors were seated, according to a WBZ-TV reporter. But the process will go at least one more day, as Judge William Sullivan intends to seat 18 jurors before beginning the evidence.
After three days, 17 people have been selected to serve as jurors for Clancy’s trial. The jury comprises 10 women and 7 men, according to a Boston 25 News reporter.
With empanelment likely to wrap up on Thursday, it appears jurors will be sworn in on Friday morning, with opening statements and the first witnesses following soon after.
Clancy, 35, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder connected with the January 2023 deaths of her children.
Prosecutors say Clancy deliberately planned to strangle the children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023. After killing them, Clancy cut her wrists and neck, then jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her partially paralyzed.
Clancy is presenting a lack of criminal responsibility defense, claiming mental health issues prevented her from complying with the law and left her unable to understand that her actions were wrong or criminal. Prosecutors must prove that wasn’t the case.
The selection process unfolds in three steps.
First, the potential jurors are brought into the Plymouth Superior Court courtroom where the trial will take place. There, they are questioned as a group by Judge William Sullivan, who also provides an overview of the case and lays out some of the core legal principles they will need to understand.
Next, potential jurors are sent out of the courtroom to complete a questionnaire and to review the witness list to determine if they know anyone who might be called to testify.
After completing the questionnaire, potential jurors are brought into the courtroom one at a time to be questioned by Sullivan and lawyers for both sides.
The questioning happens at sidebar, with Clancy positioned in the witness stand, directly across from the potential jurors.
That process takes anywhere from seconds to a few minutes, and jurors are often asked to briefly step aside so Sullivan and the lawyers can discuss them. They are then either seated or excused. The lawyers each have 18 peremptory challenges, which allow them to excuse a juror without providing a specific reason.
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