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A UMass Amherst/WCVB poll found 49% of Massachusetts voters say prosecutors should retry Lindsay Clancy.
WCVB reported Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, that 49% of respondents in a UMass Amherst/WCVB poll said Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz's office should pursue a second murder trial, and 25% were unsure. The station said 800 registered voters were interviewed Oct. 5 through 12, with a margin of error of 4.2%. Cruz has not announced a retrial.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Forty-nine percent is a plurality in a poll of voters. It does not charge anyone, and it does not retry a case. Cruz's office still has not said whether it will try Lindsay Clancy again. WCVB published the share that favored a second trial and the share that was unsure, and it did not publish the share that said no.
WCVB reported Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, that 49% of people in a new UMass Amherst/WCVB poll said Cruz's office should pursue a second murder trial for Lindsay Clancy, and that another 25% were unsure. The station said the poll is based on 800 registered voters interviewed between Oct. 5 and Oct. 12, with a margin of error of 4.2%. Those field dates, the sample size and the margin match the statewide University of Massachusetts Amherst/WCVB poll whose Oct. 19 release led with the governor's race. That university write-up did not publish a Clancy question. The 49% and the 25% in this story are the figures WCVB attributed to the poll.
WCVB reported Clancy is 36 and was on trial over the summer in the deaths of her three children at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. The station reported her defense was that she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. It reported a mistrial was declared Sept. 4 after jurors told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked, 11-1 in favor of acquittal, following seven days of deliberations. A reported split is not a verdict. The first trial already ended without one. WCVB reported Cruz's office has not announced whether it will conduct a second prosecution, and that Cruz, a Republican, is running unopposed for reelection in November.
The two figures WCVB published do not add to 100. The station did not say what share wanted the office to drop the case. This story does not fill that gap in. A poll asks registered voters a policy question about a prosecutor's choice. The people who answered it are not the jury that would be seated if Cruz brings the case back. On Sept. 29, Judge William Sullivan set the next Plymouth Superior Court hearing for Nov. 2 and did not set a retrial date, Good Morning America and WBZ reported. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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