Timothy Cruz, the prosecutor, is known for his conservative approach. (Remy Tumin, 9/04/26, NY Times)
Timothy Cruz, the prosecutor who will decide whether to retry Lindsay Clancy in the 2023 killings of her three children, could have chosen a more lenient path.He brought first-degree murder charges in a trial that ended Friday with a hung jury. Options included lesser charges or accepting an insanity defense.
But Mr. Cruz, the Plymouth County district attorney prosecuting the Clancy case, went with the most conservative choice, according to lawyers and observers, an approach he has taken for more than two decades as the lead prosecutor in a working-class county.
Her suicide attempt showed how disordered she was.