A single juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three children, declined to acquit Clancy despite expressing reasonable doubt about whether she was guilty, the jury foreman said in an interview broadcast Monday. Speaking to NBC 10 Boston just days after Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial, Roni Carlson, the jury foreman, confirmed that there was one juror who could not be persuaded to acquit. Clancy out of madness. “He admitted he had reasonable doubts and I started filling out the forms. I was very excited,” said Carlson, a retired elementary school teacher. According to Carlson, the holdout juror then said, “But I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.” Carlson is one of three jurors who spoke to the NBC affiliate in Boston. In the NBC10 interview, another juror, Paula Devlin, called the holdout juror “very arrogant,” adding, “He didn’t really take anything that anyone said.” The holdout juror has yet to speak publicly about the trial. During jury deliberations, Carlson told Massachusetts Judge William Sullivan that a 12-person jury was not following the court’s reasonable doubt instructions. Clancy strangled her three young children in January 2023 before attempting suicide by jumping out of her bedroom window, leaving her paralyzed. psychotic break. Lawyers blamed the health system for overmedicating her, instead of properly diagnosing her with postpartum depression. All three jurors told NBC10 that evidence presented during the trial indicated that Clancy was a loving mother. “Everything showed that he loved his children, from his journals to his mother-in-law, everything showed that he loved his children. So he had to have snapped and not know what he was doing,” Carlson said. The judge declared a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict. Clancy remains in a psychiatric hospital. A status hearing has been set for September 29. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will retry her.
