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The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s trial informed the judge they are unable to reach a unanimous decision. Follow for live updates from court.

• JUST IN: Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s trial informed the judge they are unable to reach a unanimous decision before being sent back to continue deliberating.

• The Massachusetts mother is accused of murder after strangling her three young children. The jury could consider charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter.

• Prosecutors have argued Clancy acted “intentionally, rationally, and swiftly” to kill her children. The defense, however, has argued Clancy should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. If the jury finds Clancy not criminally responsible for the killings of her children, she could spend the rest of her life in a hospital.

Jurors weighing Lindsay Clancy’s fate deliberated for some 19 hours before saying they’ve failed to reach a unanimous decision.

State Judge William Sullivan of Plymouth County asked them to return to deliberations.

The panel of nine women and three men has been tasked with sifting through over 80 witnesses and 300 exhibits, the judge said.

In 2006, a Texas jury deliberated for about 13 hours before deciding Andrea Yates was insane when she drowned each of her five children in a bathtub.

That panel of six men and six women deliberated for three days before issuing a not guilty verdict in what would become one of the most famous cases of filicide in the United States.

The jury is made up of nine women and three men. Six alternates — three men and three women — were dismissed and were not part of the deliberations.

Many of the empaneled jurors were diligently taking notes during the testimony. The jury foreperson is a woman with gray hair and glasses.

The jury would need to make its decision unanimously.

Each verdict slip has several options: Not guilty, not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of second-degree murder and guilty of manslaughter.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial indicated it is deadlocked and cannot come to a unanimous verdict, a scenario that could lead to a mistrial.

“After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision,” the note said, according to state Judge William Sullivan.

The judge sent the 12-person jury back to deliberate further and try to break the impasse.

If jurors still cannot come to a unanimous decision, the judge may declare a mistrial, ending the trial without a clear resolution.

Clancy, 36, pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder for the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan. Her defense attorney argues she is not criminally responsible because she was experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare mental health condition.

Jurors are considering five verdicts: guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of manslaughter, not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility or not guilty.