Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington appeared to suggest on Thursday that a single juror is in the way of a not guilty verdict for Lindsay Clancy.
Reddington addressed the court after Judge William Sullivan called jurors back into the courtroom to reiterate the definition of reasonable doubt.
Reddington said:
The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that jury that’s been working for a week now saying that there’s one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you’ve given him or her on reasonable doubt, and I suggest, respectfully, that the soft instruction that you gave them, saying at the sidebar, can you listen to the law as I instruct you, does not focus on the issue. It is the question is not sufficient enough.
It does not allow any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law, on reasonable doubt. And if we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial, because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it’s a shame. It’s a real shame. And that’s why I object to the court’s ruling. I request that we have further inquiry. I request that — my motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.
Clancy has been on trial for five weeks to determine if she can be held criminally responsible for killing her three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan in January 2023. Clancy, who experienced postpartum depression and psychosis, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney has argued she cannot be held responsible for strangling the children to death due to insanity.
Clancy currently faces five potential outcomes: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty by reason of insanity, and not guilty.
If what Clancy's lawyer is stating is true then may God give that juror the willpower to hold the forth. Because Lindsay Clancy is a monster and a serial murderer who methodically strangled and killed her children one by one. And the day we allow post-partum depression, etc. to be an excuse to murder your kids is a wreckoning that I can't even begin to comprehend.
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