Not a mistrial, yet. Clancy's lawyer asks for emergency appeal in her murder trial

The judge was on the verge of declaring a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder case. Then her defense attorney requested time to seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1024x694+0+0/resize/1024x694!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F42%2F3a%2Fd5088df545a6b52e671fb9d9d0b1%2Fgettyimages-2289661751.jpg' alt='Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass.'/><p>The judge was on the verge of declaring a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder case. Then her defense attorney requested time to seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.</p><p>(Image credit: Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5950421' />