PLYMOUTH, Mass. — During their first full day of deliberations, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial only asked one question: Could they see the knife Clancy used to slit her wrists and throat and the bottles of pills she was prescribed?

The question came about 40 minutes after they resumed deliberating Friday morning.

After six alternates were chosen at random, there are nine women and three men in the deliberation room.

The Duxbury mom doesn’t dispute that she killed her kids and instead argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she strangled them, then tried to kill herself in January 2023.

Because the defense argued Clancy wasn’t criminally responsible at the time of the killings, the jury was also instructed on criminal responsibility and what the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt to get a guilty verdict.

In Massachusetts, someone can be found not guilty by reason of insanity if they were suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the alleged crime, and if that disease or defect impeded their ability to understand right and wrong or their capacity to conform their behavior to the law.

Judge William Sullivan instructed the jurors on first- and second-degree murder, as well as manslaughter.

Whether the jury chooses to convict Clancy of any of those crimes or find her not guilty, the jurors must come to a consensus.

Throughout the trial, all the jurors, including the alternates, have appeared to be diligent in their note taking, mostly paying attention to more than 80 witnesses called by both sides. In the deliberation room, they’ll also have access to hundreds of exhibits, including physical evidence, like the knife and the pills they requested already.

In the hallways of the courthouse, where recording, taking pictures and conducting interviews is forbidden by court order, journalists spent most of the day waiting for action of any kind. Extension cords were plugged into extension cords to open up more outlets for phones and computers.

Clancy’s mother, father and sister came in and out of the overflow courtroom all day. Rosemary Scapicchio and Andrew Meyer, lawyers representing Clancy in a wrongful death suit she filed against her health care providers, also moved between the courtroom and overflow.

Around 4 p.m., Sullivan sent the jury home.

“You know what I’m going to tell you next,” Sullivan said. “I am going to emphasize to everyone here ... don’t talk about the case ... don’t listen to anything, don’t read anything.”

The jury will resume its deliberations Monday morning at 9 a.m.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague quietly exited the courthouse at the end of the day, but a media mob formed around Reddington, who told the reporters that he never knows how a jury will come down.

After the scrum, a man started shouting from the other side of the building, things like, “Make witch trials great again.” He held up a sign reading “we used to burn witches,” and urged a guilty verdict for Clancy.

As a court officer told the man he could only protest outside the yellow-taped perimeter around the courthouse, another man wearing a giraffe suit ran into the crowd with his own PA system and started to insult the original protester. Both eventually moved off, behind the tape, and continued to argue even after the press stopped recording them.

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