Karen Read’s lawyer says Clancy defense attorney may be ‘cut from a different cloth’ as deliberations drag on
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Video Karen Read attorney David Yannetti explains grueling wait for jurors as Lindsay Clancy deliberations continue The Boston-based criminal defense attorney tells Fox News Digital he's getting "PTSD" watching Lindsay Clancy and her attorney Kevin Reddington as deliberations in her murder trial have gone nearly a week without results.
One of Karen Read’s former defense attorneys praised Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer for his work as jurors neared the end of a sixth day of deliberations — after twice telling the judge they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
"It immediately brings back the stress and the pressure that comes from having somebody's life in your hands and the very worst part of a trial, which is when the jury's out," said David Yannetti , who was key to Read's defense team through both of her Massachusetts murder trials. "So I feel for Kevin now, as I feel any lawyer in that situation, but he appears to be confident."
He said the two cases are unusual because they involve professional women with no prior court involvement or criminal records — both of whom drew strong public support.
Lindsay Clancy looks at jurors as Judge Sullivan asks them to start deliberations for a sixth day. The Lindsay Clancy jury resumes deliberations for a sixth day on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool The Patriot Ledger via AP)
"I think by all accounts, he did a wonderful job with this case, defending this woman in what is a horrific set of facts," he told Fox News Digital. "I think Kevin has succeeded to a large degree already."
Clancy is charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Jurors could find her guilty of first- or second-degree murder, manslaughter or not criminally responsible under her insanity defense.
Karen Read and defense attorney David Yannetti listen to testimony during Read's murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Libby O'Neill /The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
While the facts of the cases are worlds apart, both involve intense scrutiny from both the media and the public.
Judge William Sullivan, who is presiding over the Clancy trial , explained the prosecution's burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt after receiving a new note from the jury Thursday afternoon.
Then he sent jurors back to continue deliberating.
Callan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy. The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)
With jurors out of the courtroom, Reddington made a fiery request to the judge, asking for the removal of an apparent single holdout whom he said another juror accused of failing to follow the law.
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Superior Court Judge William Sullivan presides over day three of jury selection Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in the triple murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of murdering her three young children in 2023 in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. The case is being tried in Plymouth Superior Court. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via Pool)
"Refusing to deliberate and refusing to agree are not the same thing," said retired Massachusetts Judge Carol Erskine, who is not involved with the case. She explained in an X post that judges are also required to be "extremely cautious" not to interfere with deliberations.
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The court recessed for the day shortly after 4 p.m., and jurors will return Friday morning for their seventh day of deliberations.
The wait can be brutal for attorneys and their clients, Yannetti told Fox News Digital.
Lindsay Clancy is charged with murdering her three children. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
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"It’s torture," he said. Trial attorneys like to be in control, he explained, but once the jurors are out, there's nothing to do but watch and wait.
"You're all just sort of on the frying pan, being cooked," he said.
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Read's first trial ended with a deadlocked jury after five days in 2024. She was acquitted of all homicide-related charges after her second trial last year, when jurors deliberated for four days.
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