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Judge Denies Lindsay Clancy’s Double Jeopardy Motion to Dismiss Murder Charges | Crime Alert 11.10.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A major legal setback for Lindsay Clancy as a Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: judge denies a defense bid to dismiss murder charges in
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  Speaker 1: the deaths of her three children. The defense filed its
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  Speaker 1: motion shortly after a mistrial was declared in the case
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  Speaker 1: and argued that retrying Clancy for those same charges was
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  Speaker 1: barred by double jeopardy. But Judge William Sullivan rejected that
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  Speaker 1: argument in a 17-page order released on November 9, paving
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  Speaker 1: the way for prosecutors to retry Clancy for the murders
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  Speaker 1: of her three children. Prosecutors have not yet announced if
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  Speaker 1: they plan to try Clancy a second time or if
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  Speaker 1: they will seek a plea deal. Clancy and her attorneys
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  Speaker 1: made multiple arguments supporting a double jeopardy finding, but Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: ultimately rejected them all. The motion first accused Sullivan of
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  Speaker 1: prematurely declaring a mistrial in the case. Sullivan responded by
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  Speaker 1: stating that the decision to declare a mistrial is entrusted
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  Speaker 1: to the judge's sound discretion, and that he did so
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  Speaker 1: to avoid the possibility of coercive measures being used to
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  Speaker 1: force jury agreement. The defense next argued that there was
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  Speaker 1: good cause to dismiss the holdout juror. Sullivan cited a
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  Speaker 1: Massachusetts state statute establishing that a judge has authority to
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  Speaker 1: excuse and discharge a juror participating in deliberations after a
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  Speaker 1: hearing only upon finding an emergency or other compelling reason.
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan added that the holdout juror's relationship with other jurors
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  Speaker 1: or issues with the case did not meet that statute's threshold.
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  Speaker 1: Clancy also said the court should have questioned the holdout
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  Speaker 1: juror after the foreperson sent a note claiming the holdout
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  Speaker 1: was not following judicial instructions. Sullivan responded that the foreperson's
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  Speaker 1: note did not reasonably suggest juror Doe's inability to deliberate
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  Speaker 1: or follow the law, writing that questioning a single holdout
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  Speaker 1: on a deadlocked jury would have been impermissibly coercive. Concluding
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  Speaker 1: there was manifest necessity for a mistrial, Sullivan ruled a
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  Speaker 1: retrial does not violate double jeopardy. Clancy, who remains in
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  Speaker 1: state custody at Tewksbury Hospital, must now wait to see
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  Speaker 1: what prosecutors decide as next steps. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this. Turning to Florida, where a 19-year-old man
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  Speaker 1: is under arrest following the tragic death of his 16-year-old girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Pasco Sheriff's Office, Robert Timmons was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, November 9th in connection with the death of
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  Speaker 1: Victoria Perez, whose body was discovered in Spring Hill the
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  Speaker 1: previous day. Perez's family reported her missing early Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Pasco County Sheriff Jeff Harrington detailed the discovery during an
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  Speaker 1: agency news conference.
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  Speaker 2: She was deceased and she was about 15 feet off
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  Speaker 2: the side of the road. Detectives were immediately called. Detectives
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  Speaker 2: responded to the scene. Over the course of a few hours,
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  Speaker 2: it was readily apparent to the detectives that the young
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  Speaker 2: woman on the side of the road was indeed the
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  Speaker 2: same woman that had been reported as missing at 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Following that grim identification, detectives spoke with acquaintances who described
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  Speaker 1: the couple's relationship as tumultuous and toxic. Surveillance video revealed
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  Speaker 1: Perez entered Timmons' vehicle around 1.15 Sunday morning before an
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  Speaker 1: argument escalated inside the car. Under questioning, Timmons allegedly admitted
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  Speaker 1: he pulled a gun from his lap and shot Perez
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  Speaker 1: in the head, as Sheriff Harrington explained.
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  Speaker 2: By his own admission, he said that the gun was
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  Speaker 2: sitting in his lap. He also said that during the
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  Speaker 2: course of the argument with the murdered woman, he produced
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  Speaker 2: the gun and and ultimately there was a shot to
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  Speaker 2: the left side of her head which killed her. After
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  Speaker 2: he murdered this 16-year-old girl, he took her around the
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  Speaker 2: back of where this apartment complex was, and he callously
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  Speaker 2: dumped the body 15 feet off the road, and then
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  Speaker 2: he left.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities say Timmons then discarded the firearm in a nearby
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  Speaker 1: body of water, where the sheriff's dive team continued searching
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  Speaker 1: as investigators process additional physical evidence. Addressing the senseless loss,
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Harrington reflected on the heartbreaking reality.
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  Speaker 2: This was a tragic, tragic event, and we have a
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  Speaker 2: 16-year-old young woman who will never see her 18th birthday,
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  Speaker 2: and that is just a terrible, tragic outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities emphasize that the homicide investigation remains active, and deputies
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  Speaker 1: have not released additional details as Robert Timmons faces formal
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  Speaker 1: charges for Victoria Perez's death in Pasco County Court. In
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  Speaker 1: Washington state, two sheriff's deputies were fatally shot while attempting
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  Speaker 1: to rescue hostages from a violent domestic shooting. According to
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  Speaker 1: a press statement from the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, Deputies
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  Speaker 1: Mason Aikison and Parker Perry were ambushed on November 3rd
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  Speaker 1: while entering a Spangle home. A wounded woman had escaped,
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  Speaker 1: warning officers that an armed felon remained inside with potential hostages.
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  Speaker 1: As SWAT breached the house, gunfire erupted. Fellow deputies returned fire,
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  Speaker 1: moved their fallen teammates to cover, and rendered emergency aid.
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  Speaker 1: On November 6th, officials confirmed 29-year-old Perry and 35-year-old Aikison
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  Speaker 1: died from their wounds. Both men previously served in the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Army National Guard and leave behind grieving wives and
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  Speaker 1: young children, with Deputy Perry's family selflessly donating his organs
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  Speaker 1: to save lives. Authorities confirmed the suspect, Ryan Larson, died
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  Speaker 1: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing his mother, Suzanne Larson,
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  Speaker 1: and sister, Rebecca Larson. For more crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to join us for Crime Stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 1: on Tubi. With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.