Berit Berger on Lindsay Clancy Retrial: ‘It’s Very Hard to Walk Away’ From a Case With Three Dead Children

RUSH EXCEREPT:

BERGER: "Yeah, there‘s a lot that‘s ‘ going to have to go into this decision. I mean, you have a situation like this where from at least if we‘re reading things right, there were 11 jurors that did not think the prosecutors had proved their case. Prosecutors have to take that into account. Maybe it‘s in how they reprosecute the case. Maybe they change their strategy. But maybe it‘s they have to reevaluate the charges. Is this really a case where first degree murder is appropriate? This jury, at least from what we know now, didn‘t really seem to think so. So yes, I think the prosecutors are probably going to retry this case. It‘s very hard to walk away from a situation where you have three dead children. It‘s hard just to say, no, we‘re not going to proceed. But this may be a case where, given what‘s happened, they say, all right, maybe we"