BREAKING NEWS! Clancy case: Judge declares a MISTRIAL! REDDINGTON has an hour to appeal!
Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case after the jury reported being deadlocked, despite defense attorney Kevin Readington's objection and request to poll jurors for partial verdicts.summaryReadington immediately requested and was granted one hour to file an emergency appeal to a single Supreme Judicial Court justice to stay the mistrial declaration, creating a tense standoff where the jury's return dependssummaryLegal Strategy: Defense attorney Kevin Readington invoked Massachusetts Rule 27B (citing Karen Reed v. Commonwealth) to argue the judge had discretion to require verdicts on agreed charges before declaring a mistrial, attakeaway














