BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy’s attorney says he is prepared to ask that the court dismiss the case against the Duxbury mother accused of murdering her three children, as more jurors speak out after the mistrial.

Continuing his post-trial appearances on national television, Kevin Reddington has said he will request that the case be thrown out when both sides convene for a status hearing at Plymouth Superior Court on Sept. 29.

“It will be a motion to dismiss based on what’s called double jeopardy grounds, because there’s no … manifest necessity,” Reddington told “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday. “You have to have a manifest necessity to declare a mistrial for obvious reasons — the invested time that the jurors put into it, the court, the staff, the defendant, the prosecution, everybody.”

The appearance on CBS followed a Good Morning America segment on Tuesday, when Reddington appealed to President Donald Trump to pardon his client, even though it’s outside the president’s jurisdiction.

Reddington argues that manifest necessity doesn’t apply to Judge William Sullivan’s mistrial declaration because of reports surrounding a lone juror who apparently held out from acquitting Clancy and refused to apply reasonable doubt.

This comes as some members of the 12-person jury – nine women and three men – have spoken out about what deliberations looked like after the weeks-long trial, detailing their arguments with the holdout juror, reportedly a man.

One member, a woman referred to as “juror five,” who has spoken on condition of anonymity, told WBZ that the lone holdout “was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side.”

The unnamed woman said she initially sided with the prosecution that Clancy was guilty and criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023.

The woman added that she changed her mind because the prosecution “didn’t have a figurative smoking gun” to prove their case, ultimately siding with Reddington’s argument that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t criminally responsible for the deaths.

“Eventually,” the woman said, “I just felt like the only way to get justice for Cora, Dawson and Callan, and Patrick (Clancy) and her parents and anyone else that was close to this was to get her the help that she desperately needed — and there’s no way she’s getting that help in prison.”

Reddington contested the deadlock just as the judge was about to bring in the jury to declare a mistrial last Friday. The defense attorney asked the state Supreme Judicial Court to question the one holdout juror.

The SJC, though, denied the motion.

Plymouth DA Tim Cruz has yet to say whether his office will retry the case.

The jury, which deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days, was asked to decide whether Clancy committed first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, or is not guilty by reason of insanity.

Clancy, charged with three counts of first-degree murder, doesn’t dispute that she killed the kids. Rather, Reddington has argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t criminally responsible for the deaths.

After strangling the children, Clancy tried to kill herself by jumping out a window, leaving her paralyzed.

“It’s up to Tim,” Reddington said on CBS Mornings when asked about what he would want in a plea deal instead of a retrial. “He could reduce the charge to second-degree (murder). … I know enough to know it doesn’t matter what I’d like. All I know is that I’m not ever going to agree this young lady do a day in jail.”

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