Patrick Clancy has responded publicly after the criminal case against his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, ended in a mistrial.
In a statement released through his lawyer, Patrick thanked the people who took part in the court proceedings.
Lindsay had been on trial in connection with the deaths of the couple’s three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — before the proceedings abruptly fell apart earlier today.
Attorney David Meier said Patrick was appreciative of the judge and jurors for the effort, dedication and endurance they showed throughout the trial.
Meier added that the deaths of Patrick’s children represent a loss he will never truly heal from, and one for which no outcome could ever bring real closure.
He said the possibility of having to endure the details of the tragedy again in a second trial would be deeply painful for Patrick, his family and everyone close to them.
The statement comes just two days after Patrick was seen in New York City with his new wife, Rachel Danis, as jurors continued tense deliberations in the high-profile case.
It was previously reported that Patrick has moved into a Midtown Manhattan high-rise with Danis, a fertility doctor and specialist.
Public records show Patrick relocated from suburban Massachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023, four months after the deaths of his children.
Lindsay Clancy’s case was declared a mistrial on Friday afternoon after a grueling five-week trial
Patrick Clancy released a statement after the mistrial, confessing that the loss of his children was ‘something from which he will never recover’
Patrick and his new wife, Rachel, were seen smiling in New York City just two days before the jury declared a mistrial in the case
During the trial, Patrick was forced to revisit the tragedy that struck his family’s home in the affluent Boston suburb of Duxbury on January 24, 2023, when his former wife strangled their three children using exercise bands.
Judge William Sullivan announced a mistrial at a court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shortly before 2.30pm ET Friday after an emergency appeal by Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, failed.
A mistrial means the prosecution will have the opportunity to try Clancy again. The trial will have to start over from jury selection.
The jury deliberated for almost 40 hours after hearing five weeks of evidence, but one juror was not convinced that Clancy should be acquitted.
A second trial would not violate Clancy’s Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy, which protects citizens from being punished twice for the same crime.
The Constitution of the United States prevents the government from trying a person again for the same crime after they have already been found innocent or guilty.
But because Clancy’s first trial has resulted in a deadlock, the prosecution is allowed to charge her a second time. It is unclear whether the prosecution will move forward with a second trial.
Clancy is likely going to be kept institutionalized in the interim while a decision is made.
Patrick, Lindsay’s husband, filed a suit against her doctors. He is shown with the children, Cora, Dawson, and baby Callan
Our News Outlet previously revealed that Patrick relocated from suburban Massachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023
Dr Rachel Danis works as a fertility specialist in New York
She admits killing her children and attempting to take her own life in 2023 but says she did so while overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.
A hearing to decide what to do next will take place September 29. District Attorney Tim Cruz maintained Clancy’s killing of her children was cold-blooded murder, but he refused to be drawn into whether he would push for a retrial and said the decision was yet to be made.
Prosecutors now face several options, including retrying Clancy on reduced charges or seeking a verdict decided by a judge rather than jurors.
The jury of nine women and three men sent four notes to the judge this week saying they had been unable to reach a verdict.
It emerged on Thursday that 11 of the 12 jurors had reached the same verdict, but a twelfth holdout refused to follow them.
Reddington filed an appeal claiming this unidentified juror was biased towards people with mental disabilities.
The final note sent by jurors on Friday morning read: ‘It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.’
The previous family life of Patrick Clancy (right), came crashing down in 2023 when wife Lindsay (left) strangled their three children to death then tried to take her own life
Couple Patrick Clancy, 38, and Rachel Danis, 37, are pictured above together in the fall of 2025
Friday’s Hail Mary motion was put before Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt around 2pm ET. The brief hearing took place over Zoom, with Wendlandt issuing her ruling rejecting the appeal shortly afterward.
A few moments before the mistrial was declared, Reddington suggested to Judge Sullivan that he still had the power to send the jury back out to deliberate again, one final time.
During the sensational five weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
The mistrial was declared hours after tensions between Reddington and Judge Sullivan boiled over. That came after Reddington accused Sullivan of giving a ‘soft’ instruction to jurors about how to interpret the concept of reasonable doubt.
Before the court adjourned, Reddington spoke to the judge and demanded that ‘one juror’ who is ‘refusing to listen to the law’ be removed from the panel. The prosecutors argued against this, and the judge did not make a ruling.
Both Patrick and Clancy have filed separate lawsuits against several of her medical providers, alleging that they overmedicated Clancy while treating her for postpartum mental health issues.
Patrick Clancy gave evidence in support of ex-wife Lindsay Clancy during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court
Lindsay Clancy was paralyzed from the waist down following her suicide attempt
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Patrick has publicly supported his ex-wife from the start and urged the public to ‘find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have.’
He previously told The New Yorker: ‘I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick.’
Patrick spent six hours testifying as a prosecution witness during the trial. He told jurors that Lindsay had been a ‘loving mother’ before she was derailed by a months-long battle with postpartum depression, suicidal ideation and sleep deprivation.
Doctors did not warn him about postpartum psychosis or that he should not leave Lindsay alone with the children, he told the court.
While giving evidence, he wore the wedding ring from his new marriage to Dr Danis.
Observers noted that Patrick and Lindsay barely made eye contact with each other in court – which is understood to be the first time they saw each other since the tragedy.
