Lindsay Clancy juror says holdout ‘admitted he had reasonable doubt’

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The jury foreperson in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial said in an exclusive interview with NBC10 Boston that a single male juror prevented the panel from acquitting the Massachusetts mother even though he “admitted he had reasonable doubt.”

“He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,” the jury’s foreperson told NBC10’s Sue O’Connell in an interview alongside two other female jurors. “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.’”

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The weekslong trial ended in a mistrial Friday, after the panel – comprised of nine women and three men – spent more than 38 hours trying to reach a unanimous verdict in the complicated and highly divisive case. The jurors sent notes to the court indicating they were split 11 to 1, with the majority at one point alleging the lone holdout was unable to follow the law on reasonable doubt. The judge ultimately declared a mistrial.

Clancy, 36, admitted she fatally strangled her three children in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. But her attorney argued she should not be held criminally responsible for the killings because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness when she killed her children and then attempted suicide.

NBC10 Boston reported it tried to reach the holdout juror for comment.

“He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” another female juror said of the holdout, describing how the panel repeatedly pointed him to the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt.

“Every one of us in the hours of our frustration would get up and walk the room, because you just couldn’t sit anymore,” she said.

The third juror told O’Connell the holdout juror disregarded certain information some of his fellow panelists – nurses among them – provided about Clancy’s toxicology report.

“He was very arrogant,” the juror said. “He really did not take anything that anybody said.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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林赛·克兰西三重谋杀案的陪审团主席在接受 NBC10 波士顿独家采访时表示，一名男性陪审员阻止了陪审团宣告这位马萨诸塞州母亲无罪，尽管他“承认自己有合理的怀疑”。

“他承认他有合理的怀疑，我开始填写表格，我当时非常兴奋，”陪审团主席在接受NBC10电视台记者苏·奥康奈尔的采访时说道，当时还有另外两名女陪审员在场。“我需要填写三份表格，我开始填写，并在每份表格上都签了名，然后他说，‘但我仍然不会说她因精神错乱而无罪。’”

由于审判无效，林赛·克兰西的命运悬而未决，她的案件目前只能交由公众舆论裁决。

这场持续数周的审判于周五以流审告终。由九名女性和三名男性组成的陪审团耗时超过38小时，试图就这起复杂且极具争议的案件达成一致裁决。陪审员向法庭提交的纸条显示，他们的意见分歧为11比1，多数陪审员一度声称，唯一持反对意见的陪审员未能遵循关于合理怀疑的法律。最终，法官宣布审判无效。

36岁的克兰西承认，她在2023年1月于马萨诸塞州杜克斯伯里家中地下室勒死了她的三个孩子。但她的律师辩称，她不应该为这些杀人事件承担刑事责任，因为她在杀害孩子并试图自杀时患有产后精神病和严重的精神疾病。

NBC10 Boston 报道称，他们试图联系那位拒绝置评的陪审员以获取评论。

“他最难接受的是林赛残忍地杀害了自己的孩子，”另一位女陪审员在谈到这位坚持己见的陪审员时说道，并描述了陪审团如何反复向他指出法官关于合理怀疑的指示。

“在感到沮丧的时候，我们每个人都会站起来在房间里走来走去，因为你根本坐不住了，”她说。

第三名陪审员告诉奥康奈尔，那名持反对意见的陪审员无视了他的一些陪审团成员（其中包括护士）提供的有关克兰西毒理学报告的某些信息。

“他非常傲慢，”陪审员说。“他根本不听别人说什么。”

这是一则正在更新的新闻。