DA Slams Social Media ‘Threats’ to Lindsay Clancy Prosecution: ‘Disgusting to Me’

Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz slammed “threats” made to the prosecution team in Lindsay Clancy’s criminal trial Friday.

Cruz spoke to reporters after Judge William Sullivan ruled a mistrial.

After focusing the proceedings on Clancy’s three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, Cruz then blasted those on social media who have sent threats to prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham.

Cruz said:

I would like to thank our prosecutors, Jen Sprague and Shanan Buckingham, who are both mothers themselves, and went home to their families after each long day in court. They embraced the most difficult trial assignment with utmost professionalism and always with the thoughts of Cora, Dawson, and little Callan on their minds.

I’m proud of the work of our victim witness advocates who worked long and hard … they lived and breathed with this case from the very beginning. Unfortunately, the way they were vilified and portrayed on social media is disgusting to me. Threats to them and their families, their addresses being posted. It’s unfortunate that in today’s society, potentially people placed at risk who are merely doing their jobs as prosecutors, professional women for the Commonwealth.

Sullivan declared a mistrial in the case on the seventh day of jury deliberations. Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, requested an appeal, which resulted in a two-hour delay.

Sullivan told the jury, “I watched every day, day after day, week after week, all of you, performing that duty that you braced for, and I just wanted to kind of let you know I understood how hard everybody worked,” he said. “I just want to thank you so much; you should be proud of what you did.”

Clancy admitted to killing her three children in a separate civil case. Her criminal trial was meant to determine if she could be held criminally responsible for the deaths. Clancy was charged with three counts of murder.

Watch the above via CNN.

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