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What Lindsay Clancy's Defense Can Do Instead Of A Second Trial Sep 04, 2026

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If the Lindsay Clancy jury hangs, the next step is not predetermined. The DA can retry, negotiate, or drop the charges. But the defense also has moves, and the most significant one has barely been discussed.

Massachusetts allows a defendant to waive the right to a jury trial. Kevin Reddington could request a bench trial, putting the case before a single judge instead of twelve jurors. The argument writes itself: if the reason this jury deadlocked is that lay people cannot resolve a dispute between psychiatric experts, a judge who has spent a career evaluating expert testimony is better equipped to answer the question.

That option has a cost. A jury requires twelve votes to convict. A judge requires one decision. Waiving the jury removes the protection that unanimity provides.

Reddington also has the bifurcation motion. He asked to split the trial into two phases before this one began, and the judge denied it. A hung jury strengthens the argument. If granted, a retrial could focus exclusively on criminal responsibility—the question this jury could not resolve—rather than relitigating physical evidence the defense has already conceded.

The DA's posture matters too. Cruz charged first-degree murder. He has not reduced the charges. A retrial means eighty-plus witnesses return. It means Clancy goes through the autopsy photographs again.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines each path, the legal standard for a bench trial in Massachusetts, and what the depth of the deadlock tells the system about whether this case has an answer.

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What Happened After Dan Markel Refused Donna Adelson's Offer Sep 04, 2026

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Dan Markel's mother-in-law Donna Adelson allegedly offered him a million dollars to let her daughter and grandchildren relocate to South Florida. He refused. A judge had already denied the move. Prosecutors say the family that couldn't accept "no" from a courtroom or a checkbook turned to two hitmen from Miami instead.Markel was an FSU law professor, 41 years old, shot twice in the head in his Tallahassee garage on July 18, 2014 — the same morning his ex-wife had a Geek Squad technician at her house repairing the TV her brother gave her because it was "cheaper than hiring a hitman." The killers were traced through a toll transponder on a rental car in a city without toll roads. The money trail led to the Adelson dental practice near Fort Lauderdale — 44 checks signed by Donna to a woman who never worked there, $138,000 in documented payments.The FBI caught Charlie Adelson on tape at a Miami Beach restaurant in 2016 discussing the entire arrangement. When investigators bumped Donna with the killers' names, she called Charlie — three times. Five people are now serving prison sentences for the conspiracy. This is the first of a four-part series covering the entire case.

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A Woman Filmed Lindsay Clancy's Jury Then DELETED The Video Sep 04, 2026

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During jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court, a 56-year-old woman was arrested outside the courthouse. She had been filming the jurors as they left the building. When police examined her phone, they found the videos had been deleted.

The arrest happened at the worst possible time. The jury was days into deliberation and had already told the judge they could not reach agreement. Sullivan was forced to individually question each juror about the incident before allowing them to resume.

The deleted videos create a specific legal problem. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington now has a documented instance of jury exposure to outside interference during deliberation. If the jury returns a guilty verdict, that documentation strengthens an appeal. If a mistrial is declared, the incident enters the record of a case that will likely be retried.

The woman told reporters she came to see Lindsay—treating a courtroom proceeding about the deaths of three children as a spectator event. She is not the first. High-profile trials in the social media era increasingly attract audiences who view defendants and jurors as public figures rather than people caught in a legal process.

Most courthouses were designed before smartphones existed. The security gap between what technology allows and what courts prevent is growing every year.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal fallout, the appeal implications, and what this arrest means for the future of jury protection in an era of constant surveillance.

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What Deadlocked Lindsay Clancy's Jury After Eighty Witnesses Sep 04, 2026

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The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has been unable to reach a unanimous verdict after days of deliberation at Plymouth Superior Court. Judge William Sullivan read them the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction—Massachusetts' charge for a deadlocked jury—and sent them back. They remained stuck.

This jury heard more than eighty witnesses over five weeks. They saw three hundred exhibits. They listened to psychiatric experts called by both sides who examined the same defendant and reached opposite conclusions. The prosecution's team testified that Clancy was not psychotic on January 24, 2023. The defense's team said she was. Both had credentials, both had data, and both told the jury completely different things.

Twelve regular people were asked to resolve that dispute. None of them have psychiatric training. The jury appears unable to determine which team of doctors told them the truth.

The defense conceded the facts. Clancy killed her three children. Kevin Reddington put the case entirely on criminal responsibility—and in Massachusetts, the prosecution must prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury's deadlock suggests they cannot agree on whether the state cleared that bar.

Lindsay Clancy remains charged and held at Tewksbury State Hospital. If a mistrial is declared, Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz decides whether to retry the case.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the deadlock, what it reveals about the limits of the jury system in psychiatric cases, and what comes next.

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“Another Lindsay Clancy” — What Those Words Do to You Sep 04, 2026

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“Another Lindsay Clancy.” You’ve seen it in your feed. Maybe you’ve typed it yourself. Three words that feel like understanding — and replace every specific thing about a woman’s crisis with a woman you already have opinions about.

Clancy’s case had its own medications, its own doctors, its own clinical decisions. Every subsequent case has entirely different specifics. Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are completely different conditions with different treatments and different failure points. But the phrase “another Lindsay Clancy” collapses every distinction into a single shorthand.

Providers saw these women’s symptoms, documented the deterioration, and moved on to the next patient. Then we decided the women didn’t warn us and didn’t try hard enough. Studies found that four in ten new mothers with depression had thoughts about harming their child. The doctors treating them didn’t realize how prevalent those thoughts were. The system was built around a blind spot it didn’t know it had.

“Reach out, talk to someone” — that’s the message after every one of these stories. These women did reach out. Tony argues the comparison isn’t a description of what went wrong — it’s the same failure, repeated by different people in a different room.

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There Is a Clinical Term for What JP Miller Did to Mica Miller Sep 04, 2026

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Shavaun Scott is a psychotherapist who has spent her career studying how coercive controllers operate. She says JP Miller's case follows the documented clinical progression stage by stage — from the selection of a target inside a faith community, through total dependency, surveillance, and the weaponizing of a woman's mental health records against her, to the moment research identifies as the deadliest: when a woman attempts to leave.

This is the full three-part conversation covering the entire arc of the Mica Miller case and the Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife. Scott addresses every mechanism — and what JP's conduct since Mica's death reveals about personality structure. He returned to the pulpit under a new church name. He married a congregant within twelve months. Her previous husband is dead.

JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. Trial is October 2026.

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Nolan Wells' Friends Say Sharpton and Crump Used His Death To Defame Them Sep 03, 2026

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Al Sharpton says he was asking questions. Three of Nolan Wells' friends say he was building a case against them from a stage, and they have a nineteen-page letter to prove it.

From July 10 through August 19, Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump made public statements aimed at three uncharged friends: claims about the phone, the keys, erased data, a disputed video, and the question of whether the friends were racist. Every statement came before the evidence supported it. The independent autopsy found no fractures and no deep-tissue injuries. The friends had cooperated from day one. No arrests have been made. No suspects have been named.

The consequences: three federal defendants from three different states who have never met Nolan Wells, thousands of death threats against cooperating witnesses, and a defamation fight that is now headed toward litigation. This episode puts every statement on the record, pairs it with what the evidence showed, and asks the question Sharpton says he was asking all along — except this time the evidence, not the narrative, gets to answer.

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Mica Miller Gave JP Miller Divorce Papers — Then WHAT Sep 03, 2026

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Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says the two days between the divorce filing and Mica Miller's death are not a coincidence to a clinician. Scott explains why separation triggers what she calls a narcissistic crisis — and walks through a concept most people outside the mental health field have never encountered: psychological homicide. The theory that sustained coercive control can push someone past the threshold of psychological survival.

JP was verified to be in Charleston on the day Mica died. He has not been charged in connection with her death. Twelve months later he married Suzie Skinner, a former parishioner. Suzie's first husband — a wheelchair-bound Army veteran who had become a motivational speaker — was found in a neighborhood pool in 2021. His death has been reopened by the coroner's office. Scott addresses what the clinical literature says about rapid partner replacement in coercive controllers and what it reveals about the underlying personality structure.

JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking and false statements. Trial is October 2026.

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How Long Until Kouri Richins Pays Off Her Debt?! Sep 03, 2026

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Three hundred and seventy-six years. That’s how long it would take Kouri Richins to pay off the $1.37 million a judge just ordered her to return — if she worked every available hour at the highest wage Utah’s prisons offer. She was convicted of poisoning her husband Eric Richins for the insurance money. The forensic accountant at trial testified she burned through the entire payout in under ninety days.

On August 28, the court signed off on the restitution and sent the debt to collectors. Her lawyer didn’t dispute the figure. The request to hold off while she appeals went nowhere — the judge said the law gave him no choice. Before the murder trial even began, this same judge had ruled she was too poor to pay for her own defense. The county covered her attorneys and is covering her appeal.

The restitution is only the financial reckoning she’s facing right now. Another twenty-six felony charges sit in a separate Summit County filing. Prosecutors say she secretly borrowed against her husband’s home, fabricated bank documents for lenders, and took $45,000 from her closest friend through a deal that left the friend’s family without a home. A scheduling conference is set for October 9.

This episode covers the restitution order, the trail of debt the money disappeared into, and the fraud case that’s next on the docket.

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Mica Miller Called 911 — JP Miller Called Her WHAT?! Sep 03, 2026

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The federal indictment says JP Miller contacted Mica more than fifty times in one day, put trackers on her car, and distributed a intimate image without her consent. When Mica reported these things to police, JP allegedly had an explanation ready: she was bipolar, she was off her medication, she was having an episode. Officers responded to her reports and heard his version.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says this is a documented tactic — an abuser deliberately provokes a trauma response, then presents that response as proof the victim is unwell. Scott calls it pathologizing the victim, and she explains what it does to a woman who is already terrified: it teaches her that asking for help makes things worse.

JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking and making false statements. Trial is October 2026. He has not been charged in Mica's death.

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