The Motion the Internet Put on Trial: What Judge Sullivan Actually Decided
On September 29, 2026, Lindsay Clancy returned to Plymouth Superior Court for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, renewed a request under Massachusetts Rule of Criminal Procedure 25 asking Judge William Sullivan to enter findings of not guilty rather than permit the case to return to another jury. Two days later, Judge Sullivan denied that request in a five-page written ruling. Online, the decision was quickly compressed into competing headlines: the judge had “rejected the insanity defence,” the judge had “confirmed her guilt,” the defence had suddenly claimed Clancy “didn’t do …
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