Lindsay Clancy's mistrial ended one jury fight and immediately opened several others, including Kevin Reddington's public request for President Donald Trump to help his client. A president cannot pardon a defendant on Massachusetts state charges, but Reddington has said he made the appeal because any help could matter while prosecutors decide whether to retry her. 

The pressure campaign is tied to the defense's view of how the first trial went wrong. Medical witnesses described Clancy's neck and wrist cuts as superficial. Her fall from the home caused a spinal injury that left her paralyzed, and Reddington argued the state had tried to minimize the seriousness of the overall attempt. 

After seven days and roughly 38 hours of deliberation, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Reddington has said the jury was divided 11-1 in favor of acquittal based on lack of criminal responsibility, a split later echoed by jurors speaking publicly. District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not announced a retrial decision. An emergency Supreme Judicial Court request over the holdout juror was denied, and a spectator was arrested after allegedly filming jurors outside the courthouse. 

The defense is also asking Sullivan for a required finding of not guilty under Rule 25. The September 29 hearing is scheduled to address that request along with status and trial assignment. If the motion fails and prosecutors continue, both sides will have to decide how much the first jury's reported split changes the next trial or any negotiation. 

Bob Motta of Defense Diaries and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis join Tony Brueski to work through the fallout. They examine the disputed injury strategy, the mistrial record, the Rule 25 standard, and Reddington's refusal to accept a resolution requiring jail time. They also explain why the defense sought presidential attention while the charging decision remains with a Massachusetts district attorney. 

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The Dan Markel murder-for-hire case turned a jailhouse notebook into evidence against Donna Adelson. Drina Bernhardt testified that Donna wrote a question-and-answer script meant to feed Bernhardt false testimony about Katherine Magbanua, and a state handwriting analyst testified that the writing belonged to Donna. Donna had been arrested one week after Charlie's 2023 conviction as she and Harvey prepared to travel to Vietnam on one-way tickets. 

Bernhardt said Donna promised $10,000 and a grand piano if she helped. Donna's attorneys challenged the witness and argued Bernhardt pushed Donna to write the material so Bernhardt could help herself. A second jailhouse witness also testified that Donna confessed and discussed false testimony, while the defense highlighted inconsistencies in that account. At sentencing, Donna maintained her innocence and told Judge Stephen Everett she had never received a parking ticket. 

Prosecutors paired the jailhouse evidence with 44 checks Donna signed to Magbanua after the murder. They argued the payments connected Donna to the conspiracy. The defense said Donna was following Charlie's instructions because he claimed Magbanua and others were extorting him. The jury convicted Donna after roughly three hours of deliberation. 

Wendi Adelson remains uncharged, and Jeffrey Lacasse's testimony creates a separate factual conflict. Lacasse said Wendi told him five days before Markel was shot that Charlie had considered "all options" for the "Danny Markel problem," including hiring a hitman for about $15,000. Wendi denied making that statement. 
Lacasse also testified that Wendi questioned him about his Friday route in the days before the killing and later asked him not to contact her for a week. Wendi testified that the television being repaired at her home on the morning of the murder was not code. She also acknowledged seeing police tape near Markel's home without calling Markel or the children's daycare. 

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Nick Reiner and Lindsay Clancy are now sharing space in the same public argument: when does mental illness explain conduct, and when does the evidence still point toward criminal responsibility? Their cases reach that question through very different records. 

Reiner faces two murder charges for the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, and has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors also allege special circumstances for multiple murders and lying in wait. Reiner had spoken publicly for years about addiction and recovery, describing repeated treatment, homelessness, relapses, and destructive behavior during drug use. Those statements provide history, but they do not establish his state of mind at the time of the charged killings. 

Clancy's state of mind was the central issue at her Massachusetts trial. Her lawyers argued postpartum psychosis made her not criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. The prosecution presented experts who disputed that conclusion and argued she could understand that her actions were wrong. The jury deadlocked, producing a September 4 mistrial. Jurors later described an 11-1 split in favor of an insanity verdict. 

The public response has moved beyond legal standards. A TikTok creator claimed he called off a $200,000 wedding after his fiancee disagreed with him about Clancy and called her a monster. The dispute turned a murder trial into a test of whether compassion for a defendant reveals something unacceptable about the person expressing it. 

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, joins Tony Brueski to examine that leap. They compare what addiction can do to judgment with what psychosis can do to a person's perception of reality, while keeping the legal allegations separate. They also examine why audiences reach for simple labels when the actual question is whether a specific defendant had the capacity required for criminal responsibility at a specific moment. 

Reiner is scheduled to return to court September 15. Clancy still faces charges after the mistrial. 

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Patrick Clancy's lawyer says there may be consequences for people spreading false claims that Patrick was involved in the deaths of his children. Howard Cooper's September 8 statement said law enforcement had been notified and described an escalating defamation campaign that had produced threats to Patrick's reputation, livelihood and life. The public record has not implicated Patrick in the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callan. 

The warning arrived after Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial on September 4. Patrick had testified as the Commonwealth's first witness and described Lindsay's decline, the errands that took him away from the house, his return home and the 911 call. Lindsay's lawyers acknowledged that she killed the children while arguing that severe mental illness left her without criminal responsibility. The prosecution argued the acts were deliberate. 

Outside court, another case was being built without charges, rules of evidence or a judge. Patrick's move to New York, his remarriage and his decision to forgive Lindsay were picked apart online. Kevin Reddington was then asked about the conspiracy theories and said Patrick had not been accused by him. He also said he did not dismiss internet investigators and praised social-media users for finding facts and doing investigations. 

Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine why unsupported accusations can feel persuasive once a community decides someone looks suspicious. Dreeke focuses on the behavioral shortcuts that make a theory self-reinforcing. Scott examines the expectation that grief must look permanent and publicly recognizable before strangers will accept it as genuine.
 
Patrick rebuilt parts of his life after losing three children. His attorney is now challenging people who turned that survival into suspicion. Where does true-crime discussion end and a real-world campaign against a private person begin? 

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Timothy Hudson’s parents are fighting over child support while he waits for trial in the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder case. The new petition from Shauntel Hudson asks a Florida family court to address payments she says Thomas Hudson failed to make and to reconsider how much he should owe. 

Shauntel says Thomas once agreed to pay $2,129 each month for three children. The support amount later declined to $1,092 as fewer children remained covered. Her filing alleges that several months went unpaid and says Thomas earns more than the income reflected in the existing arrangement. Thomas disputes both assertions, and a judge has not decided the dispute. 

The money case is separate from Timothy’s federal prosecution, but the records expose the same fractured family environment his defense says it needs to investigate. His lawyers sought a continuance because they have not had the access to certain relatives they say is necessary to complete their work. They also must prepare for a Miller hearing, where the court examines a juvenile defendant’s background before a life-without-parole sentence could be imposed. 

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom granted the unopposed request and moved the trial to November 2, 2026. The plea-agreement deadline is October 23. Timothy has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in Anna’s death aboard the Carnival Horizon.

The federal case is asking for family history while the family case is producing allegations about money, parenting, and who was responsible for which child. The support dispute does not decide guilt or innocence. It documents another conflict among the relatives Timothy’s defense says it still needs to investigate before trial. 

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Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney says prosecutors never put a plea offer on the table before her first trial. Kevin Reddington’s claim matters because Clancy was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder, a charging decision that kept mandatory life without parole in play if jurors convicted her at that level.

The defense asked jurors to find that postpartum psychosis left Clancy without criminal responsibility. Prosecutors argued that mental illness did not prevent her from understanding that her actions were wrong or from choosing differently. After seven days of deliberations, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026. The charges remain unresolved, and the next status hearing is scheduled for September 29.

At the same time, Patrick Clancy and Lindsay Clancy are pursuing separate civil cases over the medical treatment that preceded the deaths of their three children. Patrick’s wrongful-death suit and Lindsay’s malpractice suit overlap on four defendants: Jennifer Tufts, Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health System. Lindsay’s case reaches further, naming additional clinicians and hospitals. Those filings allege poor coordination, missed warning signs, misdiagnosis, and a medication course that worsened her condition.

Patrick’s complaint says eight different medications were prescribed within three weeks. Tony Brueski, Bob Motta, and Robin Dreeke connect the criminal and civil sides of the case and separate the legal questions each track must answer. One asks whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible.

The other asks whether providers failed in the care they delivered before the deaths. With a possible retrial still hanging over the case, which form of accountability should matter most?

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The Lindsay Clancy mistrial ended a weeks-long trial with no verdict, yet the defense says the final divide was one vote away from acquittal. Kevin Reddington said eleven jurors favored finding Clancy not criminally responsible and a single holdout prevented a unanimous result. 

The jury had deliberated for more than 38 hours over seven days. Its foreperson raised a specific concern about the holdout's treatment of reasonable doubt, but Judge William Sullivan said he would not remove or further interrogate a juror based on the dispute presented to him. Reddington then took the issue to a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The emergency request failed, and Sullivan declared a mistrial. 

That did not end the defense effort to stop another prosecution. Reddington said he planned to seek a required finding of not guilty through a Rule 25 motion, asking Sullivan to dispose of the case without another jury. He pressed for a quick hearing and said he was ready to start over with jury selection if the judge denied the motion. Sullivan scheduled the next hearing for September 29, 2026, with any new trial dependent on the court's calendar and the prosecution's decision. 

Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta trace what that sequence means in practical terms. Bob addresses whether an 11-1 defense-reported split weakens the case for a retrial and what prosecutors would have to reassess after the first jury. He also explains why a new panel can reach a completely different outcome on largely unchanged evidence. 

District Attorney Timothy Cruz said he would review the case with his team before deciding whether to try Clancy again. Patrick Clancy's attorney said another trial would be "extraordinarily painful" for Patrick and his family. The next fight is no longer over the first jury's verdict. There was none. It is over whether the Commonwealth should ask a second jury for one. 

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A custody ruling is where this entire case starts. A judge told Wendi Adelson she couldn't move her two sons away from their father, FSU law professor Dan Markel. Prosecutors say Wendi's mother, Donna Adelson, offered Markel a million dollars to undo that ruling. He said no. What happened next: two men drove five hours from Miami in a rented Prius and shot Markel twice in the head in his own garage, hours after he'd dropped his sons at preschool and gone to the gym. He never made it out of his car. He was 41. Investigators traced the payment for the hit through a family dental office near Fort Lauderdale — 44 checks signed by Donna herself, $138,000 funneled through a woman who never worked a day at the practice, and a toll transponder receipt logging every mile the killers drove. That office belonged to Donna's son, Charlie Adelson, a periodontist making three million a year from a family with more than eight million in combined accounts. Prosecutors say Charlie orchestrated his former brother-in-law's murder and funneled the payments through his own practice, with his mother washing the cash before handing it off. At trial, Charlie told the jury he was the true victim — extorted by the hitmen, forced to pay them in installments. Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman asked him one question about sending his girlfriend to collect an extortion payment. The jury took three hours to convict. Five people have now been convicted in a case that began with a family that couldn't accept losing. 
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Thomas Hudson alleged in custody filings that his ex-wife Shauntel took their children on the Carnival Horizon without his consent. He alleged she was responsible for their supervision and that the living arrangements were inappropriate. Shauntel testified under oath that the three teenagers chose to share a cabin — she called them “like the Three Amigos.” She also confirmed Timothy was on ADHD and insomnia medication and hadn’t taken the insomnia meds for two nights on the cruise, including the night before Anna Kepner’s body was found.

That same woman just filed a child support petition against Thomas. She says he owes her back payments and that the court should order him to pay more going forward. Timothy has been locked up since mid-June, facing first-degree murder charges as an adult in his stepsister’s death. The trial date is November 2. A plea agreement must happen by October 23 or it goes to a jury.

The original support order covered three kids at $2,129 a month. One aged out. Timothy went to federal detention. The number is now $1,092 for a single child. Timothy hasn’t lived under Shauntel’s roof in nearly a year. Thomas had already gone to court before the cruise, accusing Shauntel of keeping the kids from him. His lawyer asked for 140 days of make-up custody exchanges — that’s how many Shauntel had allegedly blocked.

Anna’s ex-boyfriend stated publicly that the stepbrother had climbed on top of Anna during a FaceTime call. Timothy’s own step-grandmother called the cabin arrangement “a recipe for disaster.” The person demanding more child support is the same person whose decisions allegedly put those kids in that cabin.

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The Lindsay Clancy case has moved from one deadlocked jury to a much wider fight over what happens next. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to connect Kevin Reddington's post-mistrial strategy, Patrick Clancy's response to online accusations, and Tim Cruz's decision on a second prosecution.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after about 38 hours of jury deliberations over seven days. Reddington says the split was 11-1 in favor of acquittal. He then asked President Trump to consider a pardon that a president has no power to grant in a state case. He has also said Lindsay Clancy will not take a plea involving jail time.

The next scheduled court date is September 29, with a Rule 25 matter among the issues set for argument.
Patrick Clancy is dealing with a different legal problem around the same case. His attorney Howard Cooper says Patrick and his family have been targeted by a destructive defamation campaign built around claims that Patrick was involved in his children's deaths. Cooper said every appropriate measure would be pursued and that law enforcement had been notified.

Cruz remains the person who decides whether the Commonwealth tries Lindsay Clancy again. After the mistrial, he said his office believed she was in control of her actions and described the case as cruel and calculated. He has not announced the next charging decision.

Eric explains why each piece matters to that choice. The defense has a jury result it can use as leverage. Patrick's legal team is trying to stop a parallel campaign outside the courthouse. Prosecutors must decide whether the same case, a changed case, or no second trial best serves their office.

September 29 is the first major point where those choices can begin to harden.

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