PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday issued an order sealing the Confidential Juror Questionnaires from Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial for 10 days, citing threats and juror-safety concerns after the mistrial, the Boston Globe’s Travis Andersen reported Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.

Sullivan has already impounded jurors’ names indefinitely, along with the identities of people who appeared for July jury selection. The new order targets the questionnaires prospective jurors filled out during empanelment. He wrote that the seal will expire in 10 days from issuance “unless otherwise ordered by the Court for good cause shown.”

“Based upon threats and concerns over juror safety, the Court concludes that immediate and irreparable injury and danger to jurors and to the administration of justice, is real and present,” Sullivan wrote in the order impounding the questionnaires, according to the Globe.

The judge said the Clancy case has drawn “significant and divisive attention” in Massachusetts and beyond, and that the proceedings remain daily fodder on media platforms. He also cited someone arrested and charged with surreptitiously video-recording jurors as they left court; publication of juror identifications and personal information without permission; and threats to at least one juror. Jury questionnaires are not public records under Massachusetts law, the Globe noted.

Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the Jan. 24, 2023, strangling deaths of her children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — at the family’s Duxbury home. At trial she admitted the killings but argued through counsel that postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible. Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after roughly 38 hours of deliberations; reporting has described an 11–1 split favoring lack of criminal responsibility. She remains at state-run Tewksbury Hospital. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry the case. The next hearing is set for Sept. 29.

Defense counsel has separately moved toward a double-jeopardy dismissal fight after the mistrial — coverage we tracked when Clancy added attorney Martin Weinberg. Sealing questionnaires for a short window is a continuum of the same juror-safety posture as the indefinite name seal, not a new first-flash on the underlying case.

Dated Tuesday–Wednesday, Sept. 15–16, 2026: Sullivan seals Confidential Juror Questionnaires for 10 days; names already sealed indefinitely; cites threats, surreptitious recording arrest, unauthorized publication of juror info; next hearing Sept. 29.

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