Lindsay Clancy verdict watch live updates: Defense accuses male juror of lying to judge, argues he should be dismissed from case
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy returned to court Friday after her impassioned lawyer claimed a day earlier that one of the 12 jurors in her murder trial “refuses to listen to the law.”
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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington fought Thursday for Judge William Sullivan to remove the lone juror, but the request was struck down.
However, outside court, Reddington insisted the matter wasn’t over, announcing there would be an “inquiry” by the judge at 9 a.m.
“I don’t know what the question is going to be,” he said. “We will have an argument about it … I think it will be in open court.”
The jury is tasked with deciding whether Clancy, 36, should be held criminally responsible for strangling her three kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.
Reddington asked the panel to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity based on the claim she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis — while prosecutors argue she carefully planned the killings.
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Judge grows impatient with Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer: ‘I’m not an actor’
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Priscilla DeGregory
Judge William Sullivan appeared to grow impatient with Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, over a juror issue.
Reddington said, “I would ask that you not give [the jury] a soft inquiry. I would ask that you specifically direct their attention to proof beyond a reasonable doubt and re-instruct them forcefully.”
“What do you want me to do?” an exasperated Sullivan asked. “I read the instruction … the fact that I perhaps didn’t give it my full inflection, I’m sorry about that I’m not an actor.”
Jury sent to continue deliberations for seventh day
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Priscilla DeGregory
Judge William Sullivan sent the jury to continue deliberating for a seventh day.
“If there are any notes in the future… just make sure you don’t put down where everyone is numerically,” Sullivan reminded the jury.
“You must follow the law as I give it to you, whether you agree with it or not,” he explained.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer loses bid to grill holdout juror
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Priscilla DeGregory
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, lost his bid to have a holdout juror individually questioned by Judge William Sullivan.
“In this case here, I see no showing for a need for an inquiry for this particular juror,” Sullivan said.
Holdout juror is a man, Lindsay Clancy’s attorney claims
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Priscilla DeGregory
The holdout juror on Lindsay Clancy’s jury is a man, Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, claimed when he referred to the panelist by the pronoun “he.”
The panel of 12 deliberating jurors is made up of three men and nine women. Six alternates who sat through the trial’s month-long testimony are not part of deliberations.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer accuses juror of lying to judge
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Priscilla DeGregory
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, accused a juror of lying under oath to Judge William Sullivan.
Reddington said the juror “has made statements acknowledging doubt but refuses to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”
The defense attorney said the juror “stood in front of you looked you in the eye and lied.”
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