One man who served on the jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has spoken out about the high-profile case, claiming that the holdout juror did not have any “evidence” to find the defendant guilty.
Juror Nick Dargie told ABC News on Wednesday, September 9, that he never learned why the holdout juror refused to find Clancy, 36, not guilty by reason of insanity.
“There were several times I would ask him to show us, like, evidence or, you know, describe a witness testimony that helped to prove what he was saying, and he couldn’t,” Dargie, 25, said. “There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was, which is why we ultimately sent in that note.”
He continued, “Otherwise, there’s nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion. That would be a hung jury. That is our justice system.”
Clancy was on trial for the murders of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, which took place in January 2023. Her defense never denied that she killed her kids, but they argued that she should not be held criminally responsible due to her mental health struggles.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Friday, September 4, when the jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict. The jury ended with an 11-1 vote, with the majority believing she should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Dargie broke his silence on the case one day after three women on the jury spoke to NBC10 Boston about the mistrial result.
“He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms,” the foreperson of the jury said of the holdout juror on Tuesday, September 8. “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 say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.’”
Another juror claimed that the holdout juror did not interact with the other jurors.
The holdout juror allegedly had “the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” and the other jurors found him to be “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.”
It has not yet been determined if Clancy’s case will go back to trial. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, previously asked President Donald Trump to consider pardoning her, but the White House has not responded.
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