Lindsay Clancy Mistrial Explained: What Happens Now?

Seven days of deliberation. Eleven to one vote. One mistrial. About a thousand follow up questions.The one I keep getting most: Why didn’t the judge just swap in an alternate? There is a reason, and it is not the one most people assume.Then everything after that. What happens to those twelve people now that they have gone home? What happens to Lindsay Clancy tonight? Whether jeopardy already attached the second that jury was sworn, because if it did, how can they possibly do this again? Whether they even want to…. And if they do, whether the Commonwealth’s witnesses can simply tell it differently the second time around.I am a trial lawyer. I have stood in the same rooms. Let me walk you through what actually happens next, in plain English. No law degree required. Get full access to Trial and Error with Simone R. Bray at htownlawyer.substack.com/subscribe