Three jurors from Lindsay Clancy trial speak out following mistrial last week
Three jurors from the highly publicised Lindsay Clancy trial have now spoken out just a matter of days after it ended in a mistrial.
Clancy, 36, killed her three children, Callan, eight months, Cora, five, and Dawson, three, on 24 January 2023, but denies murder, with her defence arguing she can't be held criminally responsible for their deaths as she was allegedly suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.
The prosecution, however, argued the former labour and delivery nurse acted 'intentionally, rationally and swiftly'.
Last Friday (4 September), the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict after deliberating for a total of nearly 40 hours, causing the high-profile trial to end in a mistrial, despite a last-minute appeal from her defence over a supposed 'holdout' juror.
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The jury consisted of nine women and three men, with three of the women now speaking to NBC10 Boston about the 'holdout' juror.
'He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children'
"He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms," one woman explained.
"I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one, and then he said, 'But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.'"
Another told the outlet: "We read to him on numerous occasions the definition of reasonable doubt from Judge Sullivan’s instruction.
"He actually said one day in the end, 'Why don’t we have the judge come in and read it again?' And we were like, 'No. We have it in front of us. We don’t need that'.
"And we would highlight it and, you know, so and so, this is the definition of reasonable doubt. But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children."
'He just completely disregarded the information'
Meanwhile, the third woman branded the juror in question as 'very arrogant'.
"He really did not take anything that anybody said," she said. "He tried to ask a question about the medications, and we went back to the report … We had the toxicology report. We could see exactly the amounts. The nurses [testifying during the trial] spoke to that. That was a question that he had.
"And he just completely disregarded the information that they gave him."
Kevin Reddington's plea for a pardon to Donald Trump
Earlier this week, Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, shared in an interview on Good Morning America yesterday (8 September) that he hopes US President Donald Trump would consider a pardon for his client, who he called 'a wonderful, wonderful person'.
"Mr President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady ... what she's been through, and consider a pardon," he said.
Trump previously said Clancy would have to 'pay the price' for killing her three children.
"It’s a horrible tragedy," Trump said to reporters last week.
"Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse. But you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be [a] mental institution or jail or something."
Rhiannon Ingle