Criminal
Sep. 11, 2026
The Clancy case ended in mistrial. The defense still won something.
Kevin Reddington didn't get Lindsay Clancy acquitted. But in a triple-murder case that looked indefensible, he got 11 of 12 jurors to see it his way.
Lou Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
Kevin Reddington did not obtain the verdict he wanted. But he came within one juror of achieving what once appeared impossible: persuading a jury to find Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for killing her three children. That is an extraordinary accomplishment.
Nothing about this observation diminishes the horror of what happened to Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy. Three innocent children lost their lives at the hands of the person entrusted w...
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