India, Sept. 5 -- A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's case on Friday after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following about 38 hours of deliberations over seven days. Clancy, a former nurse, is accused of murdering her three children. The jury's repeated deadlock came after defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to intervene over a holdout juror. The emergency request was denied, clearing the way for Judge William F. Sullivan to declare the mistrial in court.

Reddington asked the state's highest court to order Judge Sullivan to further question the holdout juror or remove the juror from the panel. The defense argued that the juror was "biased" and was refusin...