Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer says one juror preventing murder trial verdict
A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has refused to remove a juror who is reportedly blocking a unanimous verdict. The jury remains deadlocked after six days of deliberations regarding the case of a woman accused of killing her three children.
Why it matters
The situation underscores the complexities of the judicial process and the high stakes involved in high-profile criminal trials.
A judge at Lindsay Clancy ’s murder trial declined on Thursday to remove a juror her lawyer said was blocking a verdict, as the jury ended a sixth day of deliberations over whether the US woman murdered her three young children.
The 12 jurors were dismissed and told to return on Friday less than an hour after judge William Sullivan in Plymouth, Massachusetts, received a note from the jury and reinstructed them on what would constitute “reasonable doubt”.
The note was not read aloud in court. After jurors left the courtroom, defence lawyer Kevin Reddington moved to have one of them removed, saying the note from the jury’s foreman indicated “there’s one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you’ve given him or her on reasonable doubt.”
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