PLYMOUTH, Mass.

The trial of Lindsay Clancy – which has captivated the nation took a bombshell turn on since July Thursday when it was revealed that there was one juror who disagreed with the rest following 36 hours of intense deliberation.

The news, which came via a note from the forewoman that a single holdout “refuses to listen to the law” on reasonable doubt, left Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington visibly raging – and demanding the person be kicked off the 12-person jury and replaced with an alternate.

Jurors were set to return to court Friday for a seventh day of deliberation over whether Clancy is guilty of murder for strangling her three young children to death with exercise bands; Clancy says she was suffering severe postpartum psychosis and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Clancy admits she killed Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan on Jan 24, 2023 — but says she was misdiagnosed and received inadequate care.

Jurors have told judge two times that they are deadlocked, but only revealed details about the holdout on Thursday. Nothing is known about the juror, but there are three men and nine women on the panel.

If the jury cannot reach a unanimous decision, the judge could be forced to declare a mistrial and dismiss the panel. Reddington said he expects the Plymouth County District Attorney to pursue a second trial against the ex labor and delivery nurse, and said he’d be ready to go “next week.”

The shocking moment Thursday came after the jury members were brought into the courtroom one by one to take an oath and answer Judge William Sullivan’s question at sidebar.

The entire jury was then hauled back into the courtroom so Sullivan could read them his instructions on the law explaining the definition of reasonable doubt.

But an impassioned Reddington said the judge’s approach wasn’t sufficient to address the questions about the juror.

“If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of the juror who has just spurned the instructions of this court, that’s a shame, that’s a real shame,” he said.

“That’s why I object to the court’s ruling. I request that we have further inquiry. My motion is to remove this juror who refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt,” the lawyer said.

However prosecutor Jennifer Sprague insisted “there is no way to determine what the deliberations are, who is correct, who is incorrect, nor should we attempt to because that is part of deliberations.”

“I think what Your Honor has done by asking each juror if they are able to follow the law and then giving the instruction on reasonable doubt is appropriate,” Sprague added.

Sullivan ultimately denied Reddington’s bid to have the juror removed, saying he couldn’t intervene in the process.

“I don’t feel it is proper to side with one side or the other of the deliberations,” Sullivan explained. “I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or the eleven.”

Reddington later told reporters outside court that he believes the status of the juror and whether he or she should remain on the panel will be debated in open court Friday.

Throughout the arguments over the juror Clancy had a concerned look on her face, furrowing her brows and closing her eyes for a moment. It was the most concerned Clancy has looked during deliberations – after she burst into tears multiple times during the trial.

Both Clancy and Reddington looked at the jury as the judge re-read them the instruction on reasonable doubt. Later, when the panel was out of the room and the arguments were finished, Reddington rubbed Clancy’s back with his hand.

The judge sent the jurors back to the jury room to continue deliberations before he sent them home for the day around 4 p.m.

On Aug. 28, the second day of deliberation, jurors asked to see the knife Clancy used in her suicide attempt and her prescription pill bottles.

Then on Tuesday and Wednesday, they told the judge they were deadlocked and he urged them to keep working both times. Finally, on Thursday afternoon the foreperson notified the judge about the juror issue.

The panel is set to return Friday at 9 a.m. for the seventh day of deliberations ahead of the holiday weekend.

On his way out of court, Reddington said the issue with the juror was not over and that “there will be an inquiry by the judge tomorrow at 9 o’clock.”

“I don’t know what the question is going to be,” the defense attorney said. “We will have an argument about it… I think it will be in open court.”

He reiterated the note from Thursday indicated “there is a person who has doubt but will not listen to the judge’s instruction.”

The jury is tasked with deciding whether Clancy, 36, should be held criminally responsible for strangling her three kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.

Reddington asked the panel to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity based on the claim she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice telling her to carry out the slayings and take her own life.

But prosecutors argue she carefully planned the killings because she wanted to die and wanted to take the children with her.

Immediately after the stranglings, Clancy made a suicide attempt when she cut her neck and wrists, took some of her prescription meds and threw herself out of the window of her second-floor bedroom.

She injured her spine in the fall and is now paraplegic and appears in court in a wheelchair.

Sources: NY Post