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What Was in the Mind of the Holdout Juror in the Lindsay Clancy Trial? I Can Certainly Speculate.
Politics As the Lindsay Clancy trial reaches an unsatisfying conclusion, we can only speculate. Sept 05, 202610:46 AM Greg Derr/Pool via Reuters Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Friday, the judge in the Lindsay Clancy case declared a mistrial after a week of jury deadlock. Clancy is charged with murdering her three children in what prosecutors say was a cold-blooded killing, and in what she says was a fit of psychosis after months spent seeking help and being put on a long list of drugs for her declining mental health. One juror was the holdout, refusing to vote for acquittal. He reportedly recognized that there was reasonable doubt as to her responsibility for her crime, but would not apply the
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