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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and
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Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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It's Monday, August 31st, 2026. Somewhere in Plymouth County this morning,
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nine women and three men are walking back into a
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room they have already spent two days in. They have
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the case of a woman who strangled her three children,
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and they have three doors to choose from. And as
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of Friday afternoon, they had not chosen one. In Las Vegas,
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closing arguments happened this morning in the Tupac Shakur murder trial.
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The defense rested Thursday after three witnesses and less than
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two hours. Dwayne Davis decided not to testify. And the
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last thing that jury heard was a retired homicide detective
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saying he wanted to arrest Davis for murder 17 years ago.
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and was told to stand down. And in Jacksonville, this
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was supposed to be the morning Shauna Gardner started picking
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a jury. She is not. That trial has been pushed
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to 2027, and the reason involves new charges filed against
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Mario Fernandez Saldana within days of his conviction. Let's get
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into it. On the evening of January 24th, 2023, Lindsay
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Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands in the
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basement of the house at 47 Summer Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
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Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callen was eight months old.
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Clancy then cut herself, went out a second-story window, and
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has been paralyzed ever since. On Thursday, after 21 days
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of testimony and 84 witnesses, the case went to the jury.
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Nine women, three men. They deliberated Thursday afternoon. They deliberated Friday.
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They went home for the weekend without a verdict, and
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they are back in that room this morning. So let
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me tell you what they are actually deciding, and then
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let me tell you what nobody else is going to
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tell you about how long it is taking. They have
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three options. Guilty of first-degree murder, which in Massachusetts here
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means deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty, and which
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carries life without the possibility of parole. Not criminally responsible,
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which sends her to a state psychiatric hospital under a
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commitment reviewed periodically for as long as she is deemed
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mentally ill. Or manslaughter. The middle-door Judge Sullivan gave the
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defense at the last minute over the prosecution's objection. Now,
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about the deliberations. Two full days without a verdict in
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a case this size is not a signal. It is
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not a hung jury. It is not a hint. 21
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days of testimony, 84 witnesses, five weeks of competing psychiatric opinion,
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and a jury instruction on criminal responsibility that is genuinely
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difficult to apply. If they had come back in 90 minutes,
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I would be telling you something was wrong. Anybody selling
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you a read on this from the length is guessing,
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and most of them know it. What I can tell
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you is this. A manslaughter option changes the arithmetic in
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a deliberation room. A jury that splits 8 to 4
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on first-degree murder now has somewhere to go instead of hanging.
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That makes a compromise verdict more likely and a mistrial
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less likely, and it means a longer deliberation is not
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necessarily a jury in trouble. It may be a jury working.
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And what I can also tell you is what those
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12 people watched. Court TV's Lauren Silver put together a
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retrospective this weekend, and going back through it, a few
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things stand out that got lost while the trial was moving.
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The first witness in this entire case was Patrick Clancy,
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the children's father. He testified about coming home from a
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takeout run and a stop at CVS, walking into a
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silent house, finding blood in the master bedroom, and then
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finding his wife outside in the snow. He testified that
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she told him she had tried to kill herself and
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that the children were in the basement. Patrick Clancy has
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since divorced her and remarried. When he took that stand,
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it was the first time he had been in a
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room with his ex-wife since the day his children died.
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She watched him. He mostly did not look back. He
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left the stand and left the courtroom before prosecutors played
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his 911 call. The court ordered the cameras off. Reporters
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inside described a seven-minute recording that begins with him telling
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a dispatcher his wife tried to kill herself and telling
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her to stay awake, and then the sound of him
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going downstairs. Jurors were seen crying. People in the gallery
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were crying. Lindsay Clancy was crying. Judge Sullivan called a
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recess the moment it ended. Then there is the medical
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examiner's testimony, which broke her. When the doctor started describing
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the ligature marks on each child's neck, Clancy said out
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loud that she could not do this, and the judge
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stopped the proceedings until she could compose herself. And then,
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during one of those recesses, a live microphone in that
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courtroom picked up someone whispering three words, shut her up.
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Reddington accused the prosecutors of saying it about his clients crying.
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Both Jennifer Sprague and Shanann Buckingham denied saying anything. Nobody
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has established who spoke, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
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But that is the temperature this trial ran at. Here
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is the piece that I think matters most and that
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almost nobody covered properly. Two of the prosecution's expert witnesses
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work for Park Dietz and Associates. If that name means
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nothing to you, it should. Park Dietz was the prosecution's
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expert at Andrea Yates' first trial in Texas, the one
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where she was convicted. His testimony turned out to be inaccurate,
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and that inaccuracy is what got her conviction thrown out.
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At her second trial, she was found not guilty by
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reason of insanity. So the defense in this case stood
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up and pointed out that the Commonwealth was paying a
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firm founded by the man whose bad testimony broke the
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most famous postpartum psychosis prosecution in American history. That is
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not a cheap shot. That is a legitimately loaded fact,
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and Reddington used it. The Yates shadow ran through this
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whole trial in other ways too. Dr. Philip Resnick, the
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defense expert, testified in both Yates trials. And a nurse
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who worked alongside Lindsay Clancy on a labor and delivery
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floor testified that years ago, the two of them had
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discussed the Yates case and that Clancy cried about it
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and said she could not understand why any mother would
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hurt her children. Think about that testimony for a second.
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Years before in a hospital, a young nurse cries about
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Andrea Yates and cannot comprehend it. That is either the
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most damning evidence that she knew exactly what she was
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doing or the most heartbreaking thing in this entire trial.
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It depends entirely on which door those 12 people walk through,
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and both readings are available. There is one more witness
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worth revisiting because she is the reason the defense has
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an argument at all about the system. Dr. Jennifer Tufts
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was Lindsay Clancy's psychiatrist. She was a prosecution witness, and
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on direct she told the jury what the state needed,
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that Clancy never disclosed hearing voices, never described any compulsion
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to hurt her children, and that in her judgment this
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was postpartum depression, not psychosis. Then Reddington cross-examined her, and
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she acknowledged that she had never met Lindsay Clancy in person,
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not once. Every appointment was remote. She acknowledged she never
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ordered blood testing to see what the medications she was
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prescribing were actually doing. And she acknowledged that she had
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become board certified only days before she began treating this patient.
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That is the defense case in miniature. Nobody is saying Dr.
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Tufts wanted this to happen. What Reddington is saying is
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that a rapidly deteriorating woman was being managed over video
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by someone who had just gotten certified and never ran
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a blood panel. And that when this woman called a
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suicide hotline, she was turned away because she did not
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have a plan. Whether that is a failure of a
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system or a failure that excuses a crime is exactly
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what those 12 people are arguing about right now. Then Thursday,
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the closings. Reddington told the jury this prosecution is a mess.
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And at one point, he slammed coins down on a
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table in front of them, making his argument about what
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the state's case was actually worth. A reporter inside the
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room said one juror appeared to be holding back tears
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while he spoke. Then Jennifer Sprague stood up for the Commonwealth,
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and she walked over and she picked up each of
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those coins, one at a time, as she told the
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jury that Lindsay Clancy meticulously planned the deaths of her children.
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That is as good as closing argument gets in an
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American courtroom. Whatever you think of this case, that is
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two lawyers at the top of their craft. And when
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they were finished, something happened in that room that I
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keep thinking about. The jurors took no notes. For five weeks,
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they had filled notebooks. During closings, nothing. They just watched.
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And for the first time all trial, a row of
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Massachusetts state police officers sat in that courtroom. Many of
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them had testified about what they found when they were
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called to Summer Street. They came back for the end.
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There was one more moment during this trial that I
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want to give you because it is small, and it
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says something about what these killings did to two families.
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Susan Clancy, Patrick's mother, testified as the first defense witness.
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She told the jury her daughter-in-law had been begging for help,
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and when she finished and walked past Lindsay Clancy on
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her way out, a reporter in the room described her
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looking at her for several seconds, trying to catch her eye,
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and then giving a small nod. Patrick's family did not
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come back after their testimony. Lindsay's parents, who moved from
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Connecticut to Massachusetts after the killings, have been there every
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single day. Reporters described the two families keeping to opposite
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sides of the courthouse hallway. Three children joined those families. together.
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Now there is a corridor between them. Cora Clancy was
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five years old and in kindergarten. Dawson Clancy was three.
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Callan Clancy was eight months old. 400 women stood outside
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that courthouse in pink for their mother. That is not
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a criticism. It is a fact about where the attention went.
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Nobody was standing outside for them. Someone has to say
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their names. When we come back, a detective says he
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was ready to arrest Dwayne Davis for murder in 2009,
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and somebody told him to stop. Tupac Shakur was shot
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at an intersection off the Las Vegas Strip on September 7th, 1996,
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riding in a BMW driven by Marion Knight. He died
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six days later. He was 25. Dwayne Davis, known as
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Kefi D, is 63, and he is the only person
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ever charged. He has pleaded not guilty. On Wednesday, prosecutors
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rested after roughly 25 witnesses. On Thursday, the defense put
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on its entire case in under two hours. three witnesses,
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all three of them former Las Vegas police. And Dwayne
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Davis did not testify. Michael Sanf told reporters afterward that
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his client made that decision Thursday, sitting in the courtroom,
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and that he leaves it to his clients because it
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is their constitutional right. I want to note the irony
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without being cute about it. This is a man whose
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entire legal jeopardy exists because he could not stop talking.
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Four recorded police interviews, a memoir, a docuseries, a YouTube
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channel where he held up his own book and told
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people to spend $ 20 on it. And in the one
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room where talking would have been under oath and subject
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to cross-examination, he went quiet. That is almost certainly correct lawyering.
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It is also the whole case in one gesture. Now,
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the defense case. It was small, but two pieces of
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it matter. The first two witnesses were former Metro officers
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Stan Hitt and Charlie Mangrum, who were working in overtime
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security detail outside Knight's Las Vegas home the night of
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the shooting. Knight was expected to host a party after
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the Tyson fight. Those officers testified about the vehicles they
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saw coming and going through that gated community, and they
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told the jury they saw a cream or white-colored Cadillac there.
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That is Samft planting a seed. If a light Cadillac
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was outside Knight's house that night, then a light Cadillac
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is not automatically Dwayne Davis' Cadillac. It is a small point.
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In a case with no murder weapon, no fingerprints, and
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no eyewitness who can identify a face, small points are
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what the defense has. The third witness is the one
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you need to hear about. Dan Long is a retired
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Las Vegas homicide detective who picked up the Shakur case
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in 2004. And his testimony was extraordinary for a defense witness,
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because most of it was about how badly this investigation went.
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Long told the jury the case file had to be
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locked down inside the police department because of unauthorized interest
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from other officers. He said the way he filed reports
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had to be changed so his work stayed secure. He
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testified that thousands of guns were tested over the years,
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and not one of them matched the cartridges recovered at
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that intersection. Los Angeles authorities dug a gun out of
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a backyard thinking it might be the weapon. It was not.
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He described going to Compton and purely by chance seeing
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DeAndre Smith, one of the men the state says was
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in that Cadillac, walking across a field. Long had no
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jurisdiction there and no cause to stop him. Smith told
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him where to go, in language I will not repeat.
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Long waved goodbye. Smith was dead before the end of
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that year. And then Long got to 2009, and this
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is the part that stops you. Long was in the
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room when Dwayne Davis made admissions to police, along with
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a detective from Los Angeles and Davis's attorney at the time,
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Wayne Higgins, who has since died. Long recorded the conversation himself.
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He said Davis got nervous during parts of it and
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at one point asked him to leave the room and
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that he came back and kept going. Long testified that
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Davis was giving information to try to work off drug
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charges he was facing. But Long was not interested in
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drug charges. He wanted a murder case. And that is
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the piece that has always made this case strange. Every
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time Dwayne Davis talked to law enforcement, he was talking
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because talking bought him something. In 2008, it was Los
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Angeles detectives working the Biggie Wallace murder and an offer
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of immunity. In 2009, it was drug exposure in Las Vegas. Later,