Gayle King floored when told Lindsay Clancy holdout juror is black: ‘I have to sit with that for just a second’
“CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King was stunned when a juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial revealed the holdout was the lone black person on the 12-person panel.
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During a discussion on the demographic details of the nine female and three male jurors that failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the triple murder trial, Paula Devlin explained how 11 members of the panel were white and just one was a person of color.
“Was the person of color a woman or a man?” King, 71, interjected during the Friday interview.
When Devlin, 65, confirmed the juror in question was a man, King quizzed, “Is the holdout juror… a person of c– a black man?”
Devlin answered in the affirmative, and King reiterated, “A black man is the holdout juror?” to which Devlin replied, “Yes.”
Visibly rattled, King said, “Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second,” and took a pause before continuing the interview.
As the interview wrapped up, King had one final question about the holdout juror.
“I’m very fascinated by the holdout juror, learning that he’s a black man today,” she said. “Can you just tell me his age, I’m very curious.”
“I would guess in his 30s,” Devlin estimated, to which King responded, “oh, younger.”
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Devlin earlier pegged the age range of the rest of the panel as between 22 and 70 years old, adding that “a lot of the jurors had children.”
She also revealed that when deliberations began, “eight people were leaning toward not responsible, two hadn’t decided and two thought guilty.”
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Later in the proceedings, the panel shifted to a 10-2 split in favor of Clancy being found not criminally responsible, Devlin said.
“We all worked together, and I don’t know if it was to convince him to start with, we all worked together to convince ourselves. Once we got to that point where it was 10-2… I felt very bad for them because they felt attacked, and there’s no way to not do that, because that’s where we were talking,” she said.
“Even in normal conversation when it’s pointed at you and you have to defend yourself it’s a hard thing to do, we don’t have to always do that.”
Devlin said after watching a video of an interview with Lindsay Clancy, the holdout said he no longer believed it was murder in the first degree.
“That’s where we saw his doubt,” the juror claimed.
The female foreperson, Roni Carlson, sent a note to Judge William Sullivan on the sixth day of deliberations accusing the lone holdout of not following the court’s instructions on reasonable doubt.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington went so far as to ask that the holdout juror be replaced — which Sullivan ultimately denied.
Instead, the judge questioned each juror individually and re-read his instructions on the law.
However, when the jury sent a third impasse note indicating they were deadlocked 11-1 on Friday after 38 exhaustive hours of deliberation, Sullivan ultimately declared a mistrial.
Clancy, who remains in hospital on suicide watch, is due to return to court on Sept. 29. where prosecutors will likely announce how the case will proceed, if they haven’t already.
The case could be retried on the same charges, charges could be downgraded, dropped altogether, or a plea deal could be worked out.
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