Live updates: Tensions flare in Lindsay Clancy courtroom over holdout juror - CNN

:- Tensions escalated Thursday in the Lindsay Clancy trial, with a new jury note, each juror individually approaching the bench to speak with Judge William Sullivan, and an animated, gesture-filled sidebar between the judge and defense attorney Kevin Reddington.

• After Reddington wheeled Clancy to the bench, the judge spoke directly with her; at one point she turned toward Reddington, who rubbed her shoulder as she leaned back into him.
• Reddington accused one juror of refusing to "listen to the law" and asked that the person be removed, though analysts believe the holdout juror is unlikely to be dismissed.
• The deadlocked jury will return Friday at 9 a.m. for a seventh day of deliberations, and in a rare move, Judge Sullivan is expected to question the holdout juror—a step criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Mark O'Mara told CNN he had never seen before.
• If no unanimous verdict is reached, the judge could declare a mistrial; Clancy would return to Tewksbury Hospital, held without bail, while prosecutors could later opt to retry the case. Reddington told reporters "Bring it" when asked about a second trial.
• Clancy, a 36-year-old Massachusetts mother now paralyzed from a suicide attempt, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in the 2023 strangling deaths of her three young children. Prosecutors argue she acted "intentionally, rationally, and swiftly," while the defense contends she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.