Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Calls on Trump to Pardon Her After Sensational Case Ends in Mistrial

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer called on President Donald Trump to pardon the controversial Massachusetts mom — after her sensational criminal case ended in a mistrial last week.

Kevin Reddington appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday and told anchor George Stephanopoulos he hoped the president would step in.

“I’d like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case may very well — Mr. President I would hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is and consider a pardon,” Reddington said.

CNN’s Jean Casarez pointed out the criminal case was a state proceeding — and that there was no conviction to pardon.

Reddington also appeared to soften his stance on the one holdout juror who refused to find Clancy not guilty.

The single juror refused to bend after the group of nine women and three men were stuck, 11 to 1, on a not guilty verdict, leading to an hours-long legal drama Friday as Judge William Sullivan tried to declare a mistrial and Reddington appealed.

“I would defend an individual’s right to be a holdout forever; that’s part of our judicial system, and I respect that, and I would certainly defend his right to do that,” he said.

The attorney was quick to dismiss those who slammed Clancy as an evil or calculated killer.

“Oh please,” he said. “It’s not evil.”

“These people don’t understand,” Reddington insisted. “They don’t know what she went through, they didn’t see her text messages, they didn’t see her journal, they didn’t see the notes that she wrote, they didn’t see the text she sent her mother in October, saying ‘Mommy can you please come? I’m sick. Something’s wrong,’ and it was the result of the medications.”

“They don’t know about the number of times that she reached out. She went to Women and Infants, she went to the suicide hotlines, she reached out to everybody, and anybody who would listen to her and kept saying, ‘I am not good, I am not well,’ and it was ignored.”

The fiery attorney admitted Tuesday he “could have been a little more circumspect” with Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, referring to statements he’d made about “crushing” the prosecution as “bravado.”

“That’s after the fact and the emotions run high. We’d just finished a six, seven week trial,” he told Stephanopoulos, later adding, “I don’t regret saying it at all. I think the defense was very strong.”

Reddington said he’s “willing to listen” to Cruz about next steps in the case but hoped the prosecutor “would revisit that issue and hopefully we’d be able to work something out that would be acceptable to both sides.”

Clancy and her husband, Patrick Clancy, shared children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan and were married for six years before the fateful day in January 2023 when the 36-year-old mom brought her babies into the basement of their Duxbury, Mass., home, about 90 minutes south of Boston.

A lawyer for Patrick Clancy issued a strong statement Tuesday morning slamming what he called “a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign.”

“This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims,” attorney Howard Cooper said in the statement.

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