The Lindsay Clancy mistrial left three dead children without justice.
A defense attorney threw a public fit and attacked the press.
And Nancy Grace took the gloves off after this unreal stunt.
What Grace Said on Hannity
Appearing recently on Fox News Channel’s Hannity with guest host Jason Chaffetz, long-time legal commentator Nancy Grace did not hold back on defense attorney Kevin Reddington following the Lindsay Clancy mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Chaffetz asked Grace for her top-line takeaway on the mistrial. Her answer was direct.
Grace said she believed Judge Sullivan got it right when he invoked Winston Churchill in his instructions to the jury, telling jurors to think back on Churchill, “who fought against the Nazis and the Germans and even parliament and said, ‘You must brace yourself to do your duty.'” Grace said that is exactly what the lone holdout juror did.
Then she turned her fire on Reddington.
“As much as that guy right there, Kevin Reddington, wants to throw a fit, Kevin Reddington, AKA, drama, out on the front of the courthouse steps and in the courtroom treating the judge like that, he should have been held in contempt,” Grace said.
She did not stop there. Grace laid out exactly what she found so objectionable about Reddington’s conduct. She described how a defense attorney who disagrees with a judge’s ruling has a proper legal avenue available — a certificate of immediate review, which takes the dispute straight to the appellate court. That is not unusual. What Grace called out as unusual was the timing and the theatrics.
“If Reddington doesn’t like it, sour grapes,” she continued. “And what does he do? Go out and whine on the courthouse steps.”
Grace described the moment Judge Sullivan announced the mistrial, with the jury about to be brought in, as the instant Reddington produced a multi-page document and demanded immediate appellate review. The document was ready to go. The timing was not accidental.
Three Children and a Hung Jury
Lindsay Clancy, 36, stands charged with the murders of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and infant Callan, 8 months old — allegedly killed in Duxbury, Massachusetts in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Prosecutors allege the killings were premeditated. The defense argues she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and bore no criminal responsibility for her actions. Neither of those claims has been proven in a court of law.
The jury of nine women and three men deliberated for seven days without reaching a unanimous verdict. Jury notes confirmed the panel was split 11 to 1. According to defense attorney Reddington himself, the eleven jurors who favored acquittal were blocked by a single male holdout.
“They know that they were robbed by one man who, for whatever reason, stole seven weeks of the other jurors,” Reddington said at a post-mistrial press conference.
Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial on September 4, 2026. The Plymouth County district attorney said a decision on retrial would come shortly.
Before the mistrial was declared, Reddington had fought to remove the holdout juror, arguing the juror refused to properly apply the law on reasonable doubt. Judge Sullivan denied that request, finding no indication the juror refused to deliberate. The defense then appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on an emergency basis. That appeal failed too.
Reddington was not quiet about any of it. He called Grace the “Queen of Mean” outside the Plymouth County Superior Court and challenged her to prove that Clancy ever searched “how to kill” — words he accused Grace of putting in the public record without basis. He also went after Sean Hannity’s coverage, calling the weekend commentary “horrific.”
Grace had already answered that challenge in a prior appearance on Hannity. She said her concern was not Reddington. Her concern was Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Grace cited what she described as evidence that Clancy had searched the specific amount of time it would take for her husband to travel to a restaurant and drug store and return home — detail Grace argued pointed to deliberate planning.
“Regardless of what Mr. Reddington said, the law is clear,” Grace said. “If you show intent to kill, you are liable for Murder One.”
The Mistrial Is the Outrage — and Woke Leftist Feminism Put It There
The mistrial in the Clancy case is not a procedural footnote. It is a moral failure, and the reported composition of the jury’s lean tells the story plainly.
Nine of the twelve jurors were women. Eleven of those twelve reportedly favored a finding of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. One man held the line. And the result is that charges involving the deaths of three young children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — remain unresolved.
That is not a coincidence. That is woke leftist feminism run amok inside a Massachusetts jury room, where the postpartum psychosis defense was treated not as a contested legal argument but as a kind of automatic absolution. The defense’s own theory — that Clancy bore zero criminal responsibility because of her mental state — is not settled science. It is a claim. It has never been proven. And it should be fully tested in a retrial.
Reddington’s behavior outside and inside the courtroom only underscored what Grace was pointing at. An attorney who attacks journalists by name outside the courthouse, who produces a multi-page emergency document at the precise moment a jury is being called in for a mistrial announcement, who compares a lone holdout juror to someone refusing to follow the law — that is not a lawyer defending a client. That is performance. Grace called it what it was.
And the judge, to his credit, refused to play along. Sullivan denied the request to remove the holdout juror. He denied the request to survey the jury on lesser charges before declaring a mistrial. He gave the Churchill instruction and told the jurors to do their duty. One juror did. Eleven did not.
The prosecution now faces a decision. A retrial would mean putting the families of Cora, Dawson, and Callan through this again. But the alternative — walking away from charges of this magnitude because a jury dominated by nine women who nodded enthusiastically at the judge’s instructions still could not bring themselves to hold someone accountable — is worse.
Nancy Grace has spent decades covering violent crime. She named those children. She kept the focus where it belonged. And when the defense attorney came after her by name on the courthouse steps, she went back on television and answered him directly, without apology and without softening the argument.
Reddington wanted to make this story about media coverage. Grace refused to let him. The story is three children who are gone, charges that remain unresolved, and a mistrial that woke leftist feminism delivered when the moment called for moral clarity.
Prosecutors should retry the case. The charges deserve a full adjudication. Cora, Dawson, and Callan deserve at least that much.
Sources: Breitbart, Fox News, NewsNation, CNN, WBUR, NBC Boston