India, Sept. 11 -- Less than a week after a mistrial was declared in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy case, defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed a renewed motion seeking a required finding of not guilty on Thursday. This is Reddington's attempt at preventing a second trial.

In the new court filing, Reddington argued that prosecutors failed to present legally sufficient evidence to prove Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children.

The motion was filed in Plymouth Superior Court and follows more than seven days of jury deliberations that ended without a unanimous verdict. According to court filings cited by NBC Boston, 11 jurors were prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibil...