Lindsay Clancy Trump pardon plea outside president's jurisdiction

Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald on Sep 8, 2026

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BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy’s tireless attorney is appealing to President Trump to pardon his client, even though it’s outside the president’s jurisdiction.

“I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she’s been through – and consider a pardon,” Kevin Reddington said on camera this morning on “Good Morning America.”

It’s a long shot because Trump said after last week’s stunning mistrial that Clancy will “ultimately pay” for murdering her three little children. Plus, federal law limits presidential pardons to federal crimes, military court-martials, or D.C. convictions. A governor could, however, grant a pardon.

“It’s a terrible situation,” Trump said Sept. 4 during an Oval Office event, Yahoo.com reported. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse. But you’ll find out what the price to pay is, there’ll be a price. It’s going to be mental institution or jail or something.”

Next steps in the Clancy case are up to the Plymouth DA Timothy Cruz. A Sept. 29 hearing in the case was scheduled on Friday right after the SJC held up the mistrial. Cruz said right after that he wouldn’t answer whether his office would try the case again until he’d reviewed it with his prosecutors.

On GMA, Reddington also dialed back his rhetoric over the 11-1 split in the deadlocked jury.

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

Reddington also texted the Herald this morning to say Trump has not reached out: “Not yet.”

The Duxbury mom is accused of murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, in January 2023. She didn’t dispute during her trial that she killed the kids; instead, Reddington argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t criminally responsible for the deaths.

After strangling the children, Clancy tried to kill herself by jumping out a window, leaving her paralyzed.

The jury was asked to decide if she committed first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, or is not guilty by reason of insanity. It is not clear how the jury was split and Reddington’s request to survey the jurors one-by-one was denied.

A Boston Herald online survey of now-6,600 voters also remains split on what the verdict should be in this tragic triple-murder case.

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