Kevin Reddington, the defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy, has publicly asked President Donald Trump to pardon his client following a dramatic mistrial in her murder case.
Reddington made the appeal during a live appearance on Good Morning America, addressing the president directly in his comments to the programme’s audience.
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady and the person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon,” Reddington said during the interview.
Clancy pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Her five-week trial ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, leaving the case unresolved and her legal future deeply uncertain.
Reddington argued throughout the trial that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was significantly affected by prescription drugs she had been given at the time of the deaths.
However, there is a significant legal obstacle standing in the way of Reddington’s request, as presidential pardon power applies only to federal offences under the US constitution.
Clancy was charged and prosecuted under Massachusetts state law, which falls entirely outside the scope of any clemency a sitting president could formally grant.
Trump has nonetheless taken a broad view of his clemency powers in the past and has applied them in certain cases that originated in state court proceedings.
The White House, when asked about the pardon request, referred reporters to comments Trump had already made publicly following the declaration of the mistrial by the state judge.
“She did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse,” Trump told reporters after the mistrial was declared, adding that there would be consequences for Clancy regardless of the outcome.
“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,” the president said in those earlier remarks.
The case has drawn widespread public attention across the United States, raising broader questions about postpartum mental health, medical responsibility, and the limits of criminal culpability.
With no verdict reached and the pardon route facing serious constitutional barriers, the legal path forward for Lindsay Clancy remains deeply complicated and unresolved.