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Defense Open to Plea Deal Following Lindsay Clancy Murder Mistrial | Crime Alert 09.09.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani. A major shift in the murder trial
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  Speaker 2: of Lindsay Clancy as her defense attorney signals he is
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  Speaker 2: open to a potential plea deal. The announcement comes after
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  Speaker 2: Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial following a reported 11-1
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  Speaker 2: jury stalemate. Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder
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  Speaker 2: in the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her three young children, Cora, Dawson,
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  Speaker 2: and Callen, all under the age of six, who were
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  Speaker 2: found at the family's home. Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington appeared
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  Speaker 2: on Good Morning America, expressing hope that Plymouth County District
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Tim Cruz will revisit the case and negotiate a
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  Speaker 2: resolution acceptable to both sides.
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to listen to Tim. I've known Tim for
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  Speaker 3: 30 years. He's a very high-charging prosecutor, a conservative gentleman.
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  Speaker 3: I hope, however, after sitting through this trial and seeing
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  Speaker 3: the evidence that was presented from the government as well
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  Speaker 3: as from the defense, that he would revisit that issue
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully would be able to work something out that
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  Speaker 3: would be acceptable to both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Redington's diplomatic tone on Good Morning America is a notable
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  Speaker 2: shift from earlier statements. Just days prior, Reddington claimed prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: had zero interest in plea bargaining, quoting D.A. Cruz as
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  Speaker 2: wanting only triple homicide convictions and consecutive life sentences, even
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  Speaker 2: daring prosecutors to bring it for a retrial. Reddington had
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  Speaker 2: even made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump for
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  Speaker 2: a presidential pardon, though Trump holds no legal authority to
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  Speaker 2: pardon state-level offenses. Reddington also walked back prior harsh comments
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  Speaker 2: aimed at the lone holdout juror, whom he had previously
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  Speaker 2: accused of robbing the court of time, explaining his initial
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  Speaker 2: frustration on Good Morning America.
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  Speaker 3: What I was upset about was after that lengthy trial
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  Speaker 3: and the work that everyone put into this case, including
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  Speaker 3: these jurors that spent literally almost two months away from
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  Speaker 3: their home, their job, their family, where a gentleman had
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  Speaker 3: an opinion, not that he was sticking like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the movie 12 Angry Men, but in fact he had agreed,
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  Speaker 3: according to the note from the forelady, that he had doubt,
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  Speaker 3: but he would not apply the law of reasonable doubt
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  Speaker 3: as presented by the judge. That's not right, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why I was upset.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Patrick Clancy's attorney Howard Cooper released a scathing statement
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  Speaker 2: warning that law enforcement has been notified regarding a relentless
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  Speaker 2: escalating defamation campaign targeting Patrick and his family. Cooper accused
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  Speaker 2: minor celebrities, social media influencers, and conspiracy theorists of publishing
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  Speaker 2: vile falsehoods claiming Patrick was involved in his children's deaths
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  Speaker 2: just to boost their own online profile and potential profit.
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  Speaker 2: While District Attorney Cruz has not yet indicated whether he
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  Speaker 2: will retry Lindsey Clancy, Judge Sullivan has scheduled a status
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  Speaker 2: hearing for September 29th. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: In Ohio, an investigation is underway after a man armed
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  Speaker 2: with two handguns and a taser lunged at Democratic nominee
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  Speaker 2: for governor, Dr. Amy Acton, during the Canfield Fair. The
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed that troopers with their executive
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  Speaker 2: protection unit intercepted 38-year-old Patrick Havas as he forced his
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  Speaker 2: way through a crowd toward the 60-year-old candidate. Havas knocked
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  Speaker 2: over several fairgoers, including two elderly attendees who were treated
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  Speaker 2: at the scene. Havas was turned over to fair police
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  Speaker 2: and sheriff's deputies before being booked into the Mahoning County
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  Speaker 2: Jail on charges of disorderly conduct and two counts of assault.
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  Speaker 2: Acton's campaign, Republican Governor Mike DeWine, and her political opponent,
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  Speaker 2: Vivek Ramoswami, all released statements condemning the political violence, emphasizing
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  Speaker 2: that voters and political candidates must remain safe. In Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: a 55-year-old Frito-Lay employee was killed in a freak shooting
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  Speaker 2: while working the overnight shift at a local Sam's Club
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  Speaker 2: on Antioch Pike. Shortly after 4 in the morning, Paris
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  Speaker 2: Carlock of Murfreesboro was conducting a product inventory in the
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  Speaker 2: chip aisle when a bullet fired outside pierced an exterior
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  Speaker 2: metal wall and struck him in the head. Coworkers attempted
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  Speaker 2: life-saving measures, but Carlock was pronounced dead after being rushed
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  Speaker 2: to a local hospital. Investigators believe the gunfire stemmed from
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  Speaker 2: an argument inside the nearby Lavo Lounge that spilled into
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  Speaker 2: the street as vehicles fled the area. Carlock's daughter, Kayla,
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  Speaker 2: spoke to Fox 17, revealing she was traveling to Nashville
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  Speaker 2: so her father could meet his six-week-old grandson for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time.
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  Speaker 1: To me, he is like my best friend. Like, we
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  Speaker 1: talk every day. I was coming down here this weekend
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  Speaker 1: to let my son meet him.
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  Speaker 2: Kayla pleaded with those responsible for the senseless gunfire to
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  Speaker 2: turn themselves in, emphasizing that they completely broke their family.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Really need to turn themselves in and just
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  Speaker 1: know that they completely broke our family, especially the person
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  Speaker 1: who it was that was the closest to all of us.
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  Speaker 2: She described her father as a humble, beloved worker whose
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  Speaker 2: colleagues were always happy to see him.
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  Speaker 1: Normally when I'm on the phone with him, sometimes there's
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  Speaker 1: workers in the background talking to him and always happy
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  Speaker 1: to see him. He is a very humble man. He
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  Speaker 1: meant the world to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Both Sam's Club and PepsiCo issued statements offering condolences as
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  Speaker 2: Metro Nashville police urge anyone with information on the shooting
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  Speaker 2: or fleeing vehicles to contact investigators immediately. For more crime
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  Speaker 2: and now streaming on Tubi. With this crime alert, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Silvani.