Crime and health: Trial over the death of three children: Jury still divided

Judge William Sullivan then gave the jury special instructions for deadlocked deliberations and sent the jury back again. They should reconsider their positions and continue trying to reach a unanimous verdict. If the jury continues to disagree after this, it will be closer to ending the trial without a verdict.

The nine women and three men had already declared on Tuesday that after many hours of deliberation they could not make a unanimous decision. At that time, Sullivan had initially simply asked her to provide further advice. The jury has now been deliberating the case for around 27 hours.

36-year-old Lindsay C. has admitted to killing her five-year-old daughter Cora, her three-year-old son Dawson and her eight-month-old son Callan in January 2023 in the family home. At the heart of the trial is the question of whether she is criminally responsible. Her defense argues that Lindsay C. suffered from severe postpartum psychosis – a rare mental illness that can occur after childbirth and can be accompanied by delusions or loss of contact with reality. The public prosecutor counters that she planned the crimes and knew what she was doing.