The veteran Boston attorney previously fought Karen Read’s retrial after her 2024 trial ended without a verdict
The Mᴀssachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children to dєatᩚh is bringing in the attorney who fought Karen Read’s retrial as she makes a bid to have her own case thrown out.
Lindsay Clancy, whose closely watched murder trial ended in a reported 11-1 split in favor of finding her not criminally responsible, has added veteran Boston attorney Martin Weinberg to her defense team.
Weinberg entered a limited appearance Tuesday to file and argue a forthcoming motion seeking dismissal on double-jeopardy grounds, according to a Plymouth Superior Court filing obtained by Fox News Digital.
The filing states Weinberg will represent Clancy in connection with the dismissal motion and “related matters.”
Lindsay Clancy sits next to her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court on August 11, 2026.
The filing does not say when Weinberg will submit the motion. Clancy’s case is next scheduled to return to court Sept. 29.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after jurors spent seven days deliberating but said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
Several jurors later revealed that 11 members of the panel supported finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, while one juror voted to convict.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington addresses reporters as jurors weigh the case against Lindsay Clancy in the 2023 deaths of her three children.
Clancy’s longtime defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, signaled immediately after the mistrial that he would fight any attempt to put her on trial again.
The defense is expected to argue that the way the mistrial ended bars prosecutors from taking another sH๏τ at the case. Prosecutors can generally retry a defendant after a jury ᴅᴇᴀᴅlocks, but Clancy’s attorneys are expected to claim that the circumstances surrounding her mistrial make a second trial improper.
Karen Read outside the Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Dedham, Mᴀss.
Weinberg mounted a similar fight for Read after her 2024 trial ended without a verdict.
Read’s attorneys said jurors later told them they had unanimously agreed to clear her of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a ᴅᴇᴀᴅly 𝔠r𝘢sh, despite remaining divided on a manslaughter charge.
Weinberg argued that Read should not face those two charges again. A judge rejected the request, finding that the jury never formally returned not-guilty verdicts and that Read’s attorneys had agreed to the mistrial.
The battle continued in state and federal court before Read was retried in 2025. She was acquitted of second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a ᴅᴇᴀᴅly 𝔠r𝘢sh but convicted of misdemeanor operating under the influence.
Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors enter the courtroom during Clancy’s murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Mᴀssachusetts, on Sept. 4, 2026.
Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands inside the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.
She then jumped from a second-story window in an apparent sᩚuᩚiᩚcide attempt, leaving her paralyzed, authorities said.
Clancy does not deny killing the children but pleaded not guilty because her attorneys say she was not criminally responsible at the time. Her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was heavily medicated when the children died.
Prosecutors countered that Clancy carefully planned the killings, sending her husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house before attacking the children.
Defendant Lindsay Clancy listens during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mᴀss., on Thursday, July 30, 2026.
Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury Hospital. Prosecutors have not publicly announced whether they intend to retry her.
Sullivan also ordered the idenтιтies of the 12 jurors and six alternates who served in Clancy’s trial to remain private indefinitely amid safety concerns and the unauthorized disclosure of jurors’ personal information.
The judge wrote that jurors had been identified without their permission and that at least one juror had asked for the protection to be extended indefinitely.
“Based on the circumstances of this trial and the fact that the case continues to receive daily, divisive attention in Mᴀssachusetts and beyond, the Court concludes that there is a real and present ‘risk of [personal] harm to the jurors [and] to the integrity of their service,’” Sullivan wrote in the order obtained by Fox News.
Sullivan also found “a risk of immediate and irreparable injury” if the juror list were made public. The order does not prevent jurors from identifying themselves or speaking with the media if they choose.
In a separate order, Sullivan temporarily extended the protection covering the names of the larger pool summoned for jury duty from July 20 through July 24. Those names will remain impounded for another 10 days because of concerns about juror safety.
Stepheny Price is a Writer at with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
