Lindsay Clancy returned to Plymouth Superior Court on Tuesday for the first hearing since her murder trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4, in a case that has gripped Massachusetts since the January 2023 deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 7-month-old Callan — in the family's Duxbury home.

Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse, is charged with murder in the children's deaths. Her defense argued at trial that she was not criminally responsible because of severe postpartum psychosis and depression following Callan's birth. The jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of a not-criminally-responsible verdict, forcing Judge Mark Gildea to declare a mistrial rather than accept a partial verdict.

No Decision Yet on a Retrial

Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz has not said publicly whether his office will seek a second trial, offer a plea agreement, or decline to retry the case altogether. "We're doing a very thorough review right now," Cruz told reporters outside the courthouse, according to CBS News' live coverage of Tuesday's proceedings, adding that his office would "make sure we do what's best for the interest of justice."

Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, used Tuesday's hearing to stake out a notably different position than the one his team argued at trial. Where the defense previously acknowledged Clancy caused her children's deaths but argued she lacked criminal responsibility, Reddington told the court Tuesday there is "no evidence" Clancy ever admitted to killing them — a shift legal analysts have flagged as a possible preview of a tougher defense strategy should the case go to trial again, as Oxygen reported ahead of the hearing.

WE'RE DOING A VERY THOROUGH REVIEW RIGHT NOW

The judge set a further hearing for Nov. 2 to take up several outstanding motions: an inquiry into the holdout juror, identified in court filings as Michael Desronvil, whose vote prevented a unanimous verdict; a defense motion to dismiss the case entirely on double-jeopardy grounds; and a prosecution request for a gag order on attorneys in the case. The defense has told the court it could not be ready for a retrial before June 2027 given the volume of psychiatric evidence involved.

The case drew national attention after Clancy's own 911 call from the night of the killings was played for jurors, along with extensive testimony from mental-health experts on both sides about the severity of her postpartum illness. For now, the only certainty coming out of Tuesday's hearing is that the case is far from over — and that the next real test, over whether Clancy faces a jury a second time, won't come until at least November.