Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial sent the judge a note Thursday on the sixth day of deliberations, alleging that one person on their panel wasn't following the court's instructions regarding reasonable doubt.

The note from the deadlocked jury came after they twice told the judge in the past two days that they can't agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children.

Judge William Sullivan, after receiving the note, brought in each juror individually and questioned them in private. The judge then reread his instructions on reasonable doubt before sending them back to continue deliberating on a verdict.

That prompted an angry objection from Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who demanded that one juror be removed. Sullivan declined. This was the first time the jury indicated possible tension or acrimony in the deliberation room.

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Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn't deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023 before trying to take her own life. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months.

Clancy's livestreamed trial has generated intense interest, with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom. The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.

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Throughout the trial, Clancy has received letters of support  from all over the world,  defense attorney Kevin Reddington said Thursday.  It's just amazing. She reads them all. 

Lindsay Clancy's jury twice said they were at an impasse

Sullivan explained to the courtroom on Wednesday that jurors were again at an impas

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