A Plymouth County judge has ordered that the names of jurors who sat on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial remain sealed indefinitely, citing safety risks and what he described as “significant and divisive attention” surrounding the case.
Judge William Sullivan issued the impoundment order Monday. He acknowledged that juror names are normally required to be made public but said the court found a “real and present” risk of harm to those who served, pointing to instances in which jurors had already been identified and had personal information exposed without their consent.
“The Court concludes that there is a risk of immediate and irreparable injury should the list be made available to the public at this time,” Sullivan wrote.
Sullivan noted that some jurors have voluntarily spoken with the media since the mistrial was declared on September 4, 2026, but that most of the deliberating and alternate jurors have chosen to stay anonymous despite repeated requests for interviews.
Clancy, 36, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder over the deaths of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — who were found strangled at the family’s Plymouth County home in January 2023. Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jury deadlocked 11-1, unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
One juror, Paula Devlin, 65, has spoken publicly and pushed back against suggestions that the panel was biased. Devlin told Fox News Digital that jurors were unaware of the outside attention on the case while deliberating but hoped their work would open a broader conversation.
“We didn’t know what was going on outside of that room, but we knew that we had a chance to get a conversation started that could change something, that could maybe stop this from ever happening again,” Devlin said. “I think that’s one of the reasons why we feel — or I feel — so strongly about this is that I hope that no other woman or husband has to go through this.”
Devlin said she believed there were “holes” in the prosecution’s case after weighing the evidence presented at trial.
“In the biggest piece of the whole case, the whole thing was based on mental health. How can you have bias if only women can go through postpartum depression? Only women can go through postpartum psychosis. Only women can deliver a baby. That’s not biased. That’s just a fact,” she said.
Clancy is scheduled to appear back in court on September 29 for a status hearing. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office has not yet said whether it intends to retry the case.
